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My uncle is as stupid as paste.
 
Cap said:
Home Covid Test:

1. Open a can of beer and try to smell it.
2. If you can smell the beer, drink it to see if you can taste it.
3. If you can smell it and taste it, this confirms that you don't have the Covid.

Last night, I did the test 19 times and all were negative. Tonight, I am going to do the test again because this morning I woke up with a headache and I feel like I'm coming down with something.

I am so nervous.

"Not my story but it sounds like good medical advice."
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I hear this is the cheapest, most reliable covid test there is.
 
Regarding age gaps, I happened along the Wikipedia biography of Anthony Quinn the other day. I bow down to his awesomeness in regards to keeping his stamina up. Not sure if it was his Irish eyes, or his Mexican smile, but the young ladies had no problem keeping his progeny coming. Mind you, he was born in 1915 and had his last child in 1996:

Quinn's first wife was the actress Katherine DeMille, the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille; they wed in 1937. The couple had five children: Christopher (1938–1941), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952).[30] Their first child, Christopher, aged two, drowned in the lily pond of next-door neighbor W. C. Fields.[30]

In 1965, Quinn and DeMille divorced because of his affair with Italian costume designer Jolanda Addolori, whom he married in 1966. They had three children: Francesco Quinn(March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011), Danny Quinn (born April 16, 1964), and Lorenzo Quinn(born May 7, 1966).[4]

In the 1970s, during his marriage to Addolori, Quinn also had two children with Friedel Dunbar, an event producer in Los Angeles: Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973) and Alexander Anthony Quinn (born December 30, 1976).

By the 1990s, Quinn then had two children with his secretary, Katherine Benvin; daughter Antonia Patricia Rose Quinn (born July 23, 1993) and son Ryan Nicholas Quinn (born July 5, 1996).[19][31] His marriage with Addolori finally ended in divorce in August 1997. He then married Benvin in December 1997 and remained married until his death, in June 2001.
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Anthony Quinn was a serial polygamist.

Thanks for sharing his name with me! I looked him up and will go look for some of his movies! He looks like he was a great actor!
 
MeganC said:
Anthony Quinn was a serial polygamist.
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Yep! Always married and keeping a honey (probably more) on the side:D. He seems to have lived honorably and kept his responsibilities to providing and rearing his progeny. It was his pattern throughout life.

He was one of the greats! The biblically themed Barrabas might be your first taste into his work. He also made a great cameo in John Candy's "Only the Lonely" alongside another great oldschool actress, Maureen O'hara.

You're young, so not surprising you never heard of him, but you should have! In all of his roles, and I presume in real life, he as the consummate, alpha, dominant personality that women swoon over.
 
MeganC said:
Further about the virgin thing I want to say that there are no unicorns who come to poly! Just my own observation but when a woman comes to poly from outside of the life she's got problems she's trying to get away from or she's trying to fill a need that isn't being filled for her in the world. I'm guilty on both counts and in very big ways and have long cringed when people want to think I was some wholesome virgin from a nice family when I sought out this life. I appreciate the compliment but the truth is I was a hot mess. The same can be said for every woman I've seen come to this life from outside. Hot messes every last one of us!

Not that there aren't virgins who choose the life. But 100% of those that I've seen all grew up in this and most all of them want to be a first wife and not a 2nd or 3rd. One exception I've seen is when bff's marry the same guy and that always looks like an amazing blessing for that family.

There's a saying that says If she's hot and single she's crazy! and there's solid wisdom in that and I know because I resemble that statement! :p
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So you have more exposure to polygamous families than most here. What has been the success rate of polygamous families in your circles?

Cause the testimonies I've seen here aren't encouraging on that count.
 
Mojo said:
This is true.

But, in my limited experience, those who are successful are busy being successful and not using their excess time on forums.
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Winner winner!!
 
I can pet animals by the mouthful.
 
rockfox said:
So you have more exposure to polygamous families than most here. What has been the success rate of polygamous families in your circles?

Cause the testimonies I've seen here aren't encouraging on that count.
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Just my unscientific opinion but the families that do the best are led by a husband who grew up in the life. The men from outside have the hardest time with it. Even then it's a challenge and between social workers (Grrrrr!), legal issues, money issues, and then addictions it's not easy. And if there's no faith in God to tie the family together it gets even harder and I'll be fair to say that about church families. The families that have a real faith do the best.

I'd say a bit more than half of poly families I've seen make a success of it.
 
MeganC said:
Just my unscientific opinion but the families that do the best are led by a husband who grew up in the life. The men from outside have the hardest time with it. Even then it's a challenge and between social workers (Grrrrr!), legal issues, money issues, and then addictions it's not easy. And if there's no faith in God to tie the family together it gets even harder and I'll be fair to say that about church families. The families that have a real faith do the best.

I'd say a bit more than half of poly families I've seen make a success of it.
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More than half are successful? If that is the case it seems to be close to the same stats as monogamous marriages. Word on the street is that roughly 50% of marriages end in divorce. I don’t know if that stat is right, but if it is, the two might not be terribly different, statistically speaking. That’s interesting. It would be really hard to do a scientific study on it because so many are not open about it.
 
I don't know about polygamous marriages, but the eventual divorce rate reached its highest point in the early 1980s, at which time it was about 50%. Since then it has been declining and now stands at about 33%, or 1 in 3 marriages will likely end in divorce. This should decrease significantly within about 20 years, though, as the Baby Boom cohort dies off. The philosophies which the Baby Boomers glommed onto and promoted (feminism, postmodernism, open marriage, etc.) resulted in their age cohort having the highest divorce rate (one thing that was very actively promoted beginning in the late 1960s to the early 1980s was the notion that children were better off if their parents split up if they didn't still love each other; this has been demonstrated to be almost entirely false, both through sociological research and through self-reporting of individuals who were children from broken homes). The Baby Boomers, though, have been reluctant to eschew their adolescent philosophies, and their divorce rate reflects that. Senior citizens are now 2.5 times as likely to divorce as senior citizens were in 1990.
 
I've lost all sensation in my shirt.
 
Keith Martin said:
Since then it has been declining and now stands at about 33%, or 1 in 3 marriages will likely end in divorce.
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Is that also due to declining marriage rates as well?
Also, those marrying choosing to reduce stress by have only one or no children?
Other factors?
 
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