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Does that mean Sauron was full of love? >-)
Congrats to a couple friends getting engaged. But "do we need a ring?" made me reflect on the extremes of my vicarious experience:
Friends 1&2: married at the shockingly early (for my social circle) age of 22, still together 14 years later, despite much military-imposed separation. Eloped to the LA courthouse with negative fanfare ("Oh, uh, we got married"); I don't know if there even is a ring.
College semi-friends: spent about a year on wedding preparations, down to having bridesmaids make their dresses by hand. Divorced badly 8 months after the wedding.
Huh, for that matter, I'm not sure my parents had any rings (well, wedding rings; I know my mother wore a non-standard ring or two), and they did the courthouse thing, and were together for... well, I don't know when they got married vs. living together, but let's say 35 years on the low end.
I figure exactly one LJ friend will grok my choice of userpic.
Congrats to a couple friends getting engaged. But "do we need a ring?" made me reflect on the extremes of my vicarious experience:
Friends 1&2: married at the shockingly early (for my social circle) age of 22, still together 14 years later, despite much military-imposed separation. Eloped to the LA courthouse with negative fanfare ("Oh, uh, we got married"); I don't know if there even is a ring.
College semi-friends: spent about a year on wedding preparations, down to having bridesmaids make their dresses by hand. Divorced badly 8 months after the wedding.
Huh, for that matter, I'm not sure my parents had any rings (well, wedding rings; I know my mother wore a non-standard ring or two), and they did the courthouse thing, and were together for... well, I don't know when they got married vs. living together, but let's say 35 years on the low end.
I figure exactly one LJ friend will grok my choice of userpic.