Hello all.
My first post and a new thread as well.
Had a bit of a look through these forums and my first impression is that it is not really such a friendly place. Many of the posts are from a few persistent people. I guess a lot of us have had bitter experiences and emotional turmoil to spoil our lives. And the baggage really shows.
But the most curious thing I find is that so many people sign up on Priceless Partner and yet never post a reply to any of the threads here??
Ok so I have learned not to walk away because of first impressions
I really have no use for antagonism and turmoil in my declining years, I thought lets start a thread off, for ordinary folk, who came here to meet nice people and perhaps find a life partner to share their ups and downs.
We don't need young university educated jacks and jills to tell us how it is. We have been there, we have experienced it all. Now we want to try it all over again. And that my friends, says a lot for the human spirit.
So if you answer my thread, I ask only one thing of you...please read it again and ask yourself "Do I really want to post this"
If it is an attack on me or someone else, then delete the message and go away and look some place else.
Moderators will help keep this thread friendly, I hope. Lets see if we can entice some of the many quiet ones out there to post a reply, and they will if we protect them.
For the rest of you I have a working e-mail, attack in private, you will be welcomed (by a delete key )
So am I the only old bloke here that had a good marriage? I loved my wife and miss her every day, in fact I still feel married, and that is my baggage! However I know I can overcome that one with the right person.
I live in a brand new house I just finished building in a very small rural town within 30 minutes of Wodonga.
I am not rich but I own my house and a very nice Caravan and 4WD.
I miss traveling around Australia and would love to have a kindred spirit sitting in the seat beside me, rather than ghost of the past. Do I know how to treat a lady? Hell No!! but I love to study the problem, and I think that I am getting there
Am I a nice person? Goodness, probably not.. but I do go out there thinking I am happy to see you, what can I do to make your day better.. and more times than not I get stopped in my tracks, abused or worse still simply ignored. So one grits his teeth and moves on.
Now my poor wife was my best friend, she kept me sane, and made a better person of me, and I loved her heaps.
Thats what I mean, you can see it can't you? your life partner is the one who makes every "wake up" a sunny day. Don't matter if a storm is out there!
I have become a selfish old ***** these last 4 years, I really need to become a man once more and to do that I need to find a partner before its too late, for both of us!
So what you waiting for? I have no bad habits (he! he! well I don't think they are bad anyway. So PM me if you like, I really am an old fashioned, pull out the chair type of person.
I have never raised a hand or thought of hurting another soul in my life (even after 12 months in Vietnam)
Mental hurt, now that is another thing, I guess I know more today than I did in 1963, I think I hurt my love in other ways and in this I really despair.

OK so here are a few bones for you to chew on....
Maybe you don't like what you hear? that's ok, but post here anyway and we will try to keep it a nice thread
Rod

Hi M61
welcome to pp forums I just read your post and loved every bit of it.
its men like you that we need on here who have been in a happy marriage for 36 years.
I congratulate you on such an achievement in our word today it is a rare thing unfortunately.

I have been on this site now for going on a year and in my time have met allot of men who are here for just one thing. but the few long lasting friends I have made on pp, both men and women have made my time on here worthwhile. I have always enjoyed chatting to the older men who have lost there wife's and been in long happy marriages they are the most sincere people. I would say we need some good male moderator on the forums to even out things . I do know Glen asked if any men were interested in moderating i think you would be perfect!!! hope to see more posts from you soon you all the best.

Lukehear.

Hi and welcome to the forums msts61
Thanx for such a great post and for sharing parts of your life with us. The Mods will endevour to keep things flowing here as smoothly as possible...could be quite a task tho lol but the 'delete' button does work well

cheers
Sexci

Thank you for being so kind to me. I thought about my post all day, and was a bit worried about what I was going to find. I felt I was probably offending some, when really all I wanted to do is avoid aggravation. Look forward to chatting some, but now I have to go into Town so I will call back later,
Cheers All
Rod

welcome msts61 and thanks for a positive post and thread.
No not all on PP forums are negative, and many of us appreciate good conversation and friendly banter.
I am happy for you that you had a good marriage and that you are not afraid to say so.
Too many of us hide from our pasts without our pasts we have no history, which of course has brought us to where we are now!

Originally Posted by aussiejem64

welcome msts61 and thanks for a positive post and thread.
No not all on PP forums are negative, and many of us appreciate good conversation and friendly banter.
I am happy for you that you had a good marriage and that you are not afraid to say so.
Too many of us hide from our pasts without our pasts we have no history, which of course has brought us to where we are now!

Aussiejem64,
you have nice eyes, you look to be calm and happy, and I love your portrait drawing I was about to ask who does them, because I noticed some others around here, but I saw scorpiowomans post,a talented lady that one, for sure
Cheers
Rod

Originally Posted by lukehear

Hi M61
welcome to pp forums I just read your post and loved every bit of it.

Snipped please read full post above

hope to see more posts from you soon you all the best.

Lukehear.

Why thank you lukehear, but I hope you saw my little warning at the bottom, my marriage had its ups and downs and it was not all black or white, these last 4 years have run the full gamut from deep sadness through blame and depression until I finally realized that we BOTH had our faults,but we survived because we did care for the other more than ourselves. So I am happy now. But at 62 will I do a better job next time, I hope so.
On another subject, my wife had a dear friend who lives in Melbourne. K has inherited nerve deafness, and a lovely girl she is. She was one of the people who first had the cochlear implant. She worked with the inventor and was such a good guinea pig that the good professor became a friend. Her first implant had only 4 wires to transfer the sound, but K was like a little girl and so enjoyed getting some sound back, and quickly learnt to interpret the sounds and understand speech. She has since had a new version fitted with hundreds (?) of wires and says she has to learn it all again, she wishes she kept the old one. Anyway we have a lot of fun with K. She rings up, and I answer the phone, and am possibly about to go shopping or something! Hello M (my daughter) Hi I am coming over for a coffee, is your Dad home? I say its Rod here K, Look can you make it after 4.00 PM? M and I are about to go shopping! K says ok good see you in five minutes and hangs up! Ha Ha! so we postpone the shopping and I race inside to look in the mirror, Yep! the moustache is covering the lip, so out with the scissors and cut a 1/4 inch off so K can hear me!
I love K she is a bubbly blond, good fun and unfortunately (for me has a good mate already.
Deaf people are nice to be around, if K is truly representative.

Originally Posted by msts61

Why thank you lukehear, but I hope you saw my little warning at the bottom, my marriage had its ups and downs and it was not all black or white, these last 4 years have run the full gamut from deep sadness through blame and depression until I finally realized that we BOTH had our faults,but we survived because we did care for the other more than ourselves. So I am happy now. But at 62 will I do a better job next time, I hope so.
On another subject, my wife had a dear friend who lives in Melbourne. K has inherited nerve deafness, and a lovely girl she is. She was one of the people who first had the cochlear implant. She worked with the inventor and was such a good guinea pig that the good professor became a friend. Her first implant had only 4 wires to transfer the sound, but K was like a little girl and so enjoyed getting some sound back, and quickly learnt to interpret the sounds and understand speech. She has since had a new version fitted with hundreds (?) of wires and says she has to learn it all again, she wishes she kept the old one. Anyway we have a lot of fun with K. She rings up, and I answer the phone, and am possibly about to go shopping or something! Hello M (my daughter) Hi I am coming over for a coffee, is your Dad home? I say its Rod here K, Look can you make it after 4.00 PM? M and I are about to go shopping! K says ok good see you in five minutes and hangs up! Ha Ha! so we postpone the shopping and I race inside to look in the mirror, Yep! the moustache is covering the lip, so out with the scissors and cut a 1/4 inch off so K can hear me!
I love K she is a bubbly blond, good fun and unfortunately (for me has a good mate already.
Deaf people are nice to be around, if K is truly representative.

Hi msts61.
thanks for sharing your story about your friend k with us i myself have nerve deafness but cant have a cochlear implant.

I have only been deaf 5 years so find it difficult to accept but I try and make the best of my life and focus on the things i can do.

I like this thread... At first I thought we should be debating topics but we do that with other posts why not use this one to chat to each other.

Originally Posted by msts61

Aussiejem64,
you have nice eyes, you look to be calm and happy, and I love your portrait drawing I was about to ask who does them, because I noticed some others around here, but I saw scorpiowomans post,a talented lady that one, for sure
Cheers
Rod

you have got that right Rod, Scorps is a VERY talented lady and a lovely one to boot. thanks for the nice words, the reason for the smile in that photo is because my dog wanted in on the action and what you cant see is she is just jumping off my bum!