my parents were married 50 years before my father passed away.
Never apart. I knew many dads were in the street and exhibited the kind of behavior that indicated cheating was either happening or inevitable...
My dad NEVER made catcalls or whistled or looked at other women ever...or lit their cigarrettes or made sexual innuendos...
it would just never have occuured to him ..the light of his life was my mother
he KISSED the holy ground she walked..I kid you not
loyal to the point of ...sacrificial
I have
never seen a more lovesick man in my entire life
cas my mom can be a super diva and I always thought my dad had patiece of Job
maybe that was the attraction
she was a Rules wife~
but I saw true devotion and true love betwen them
she's so lost without him now
He was a an always stay at home after work husband and father..the extent of his extracurricular activities was to coach little league and sit on community boards at town meetings and and wait on me in his car while I attended catechism or basketball practice
that was IT..you always knew where he was...
in the family den.. quietly reading the paper and watching television
I asked him....knowing other dads were clearly fooling around...
why my father didn't
he said there was not one woman in the world who could ever hold a candle to my mom
he was head over heels
ALL HIS LIFE
and then he said
besides those girls want money!!!
the kind of man I want to marry is like my dad
he'd have walked on fire for my mother
oh..wait...
he did