Hi All,
I'm 1 week new to this board and wanted to thank all of you that post. I've been reading the post's and archives while waiting for my password. The post's have been funny, ironic, painful and of course interesting. A bit of background on me, I've been coming to Co. off and on for some 13+ years, mainly for work, etc., but the last few have been for relationship purposes. I met my eye-candy in '01 and married in '02, and if all goes well will be divorced from her in '03. I've been here in Cali for 5+ months and will be returning shortly. All the bad stuff aside, (should have listened to my inner voice instead of the lower one), I will be returning to find my "media naranja" in Co., although maybe not in Cali. There were 3 serious problems re: core values that were different for us. Without question, one of them was in respect to educating her young son from a previous relationship. My spoiled and hot looking prima donna was raised with the attitude that she did not nor would she be obligated to do anything that she did not want to do. This was also her view on raising our son. She gave our boy tons of love, and for that I'm glad. The problem was that whenever it came time to do something difficult but correct for the child, she absolutely refused to do it. This little angel had his mother wrapped around his pinky. Albeit, it wasn't his fault, he was doing what his mother taught him but it did cause major problems in our relationship. In regards to DSteve2, you may get a few points from her by changing training to educating, but I feel that may not be the real issue. I'll write more later.
Good Luck!
