If you could only have.........

GunnyGene

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Been a number of posts about "if you could only have one", of whatever.

Sooooo, if you could only have one wife (or husband) who would you choose? :mrgreen:
 
The wife who took a chance and married me when I was just a young cowboy with no foreseeable future 67 years ago. Somehow she managed to stick with me.
 
One who liked: a) the outdoors. b) shooting & reloading. c) riding motorcycles. d) muscle cars. She would have to have all her own "equipment" for engaging in the above. Pictures of "equipment" would be mandatory before the first "date".

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
 
Definitely the lady I am married to now. She has earned her stripes, dealing with me for over 36 years. Good times and bad, and there were more than a few of the latter, she has been there.
 
The same woman I have been married to for the last 10 1/2 years. We have our ups & downs but she is a good woman. I never stayed with one person more than 6 months before I met her.
 
YOU MEAN at a time, right ?
I'll stick with the one i have now as I have her purty well trained now. Our fourteenth wedding anniversary comes up June 7 where we will celebrate it at the Whittington Center.
And so it goes...
 
I hope to have only one wife - and I'd like to keep the one I have for as long as possible.
Now my Grandfather is on wife #3, unfortunately he saw the first two to their graves. His first wife died of cancer. On her day bed she told him about a dream she had where he married a certain woman. He wanted nothing to do with it then, but he had 4 kids to raise, six months later him and that woman fell in love and were married and she was an incredible woman. Unfortunately she died from lung disease at the age of 58. The day after her funeral my Grandfather was at his house, walking out to the driveway. It was early spring. Both of his wives died the same month. He got to the end of the driveway and cursed spring, mumbling to himself as he kicked a rock. Just then an audible voice spoke to him and said, "Don't you know my son, Spring is the time of rebirth." He stopped his mumbling real quick. One year later he was married to another wonderful woman. They've been together for the last 7 years. Her husband died tragically from a heart attack at 36. They didn't have any children. When she married my grandfather she adopted us all as her family - children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
 
My paternal grandpa`s first wife died young leaving him with 6 kids. He was from Volhyena which is now the Ukraine. At the same time my grandmother was a young widow with one son that had just arrived in this country. She also was from very near the same area he had come from. She arrived and was staying with a older sister and brother in law. She had immigrated with a older brother that just had been discharged from the Russian army. Evidently my grandpa was friends with her older sister and BIL.
They immediately had him over for dinner to meet her. Some years ago I heard the story at a large family reunion. A day or two after they met grandma`s BIL put her and my uncle on a team and wagon and went to visit my grandpa at his farm. He came back alone. His wife, my great aunt asked him where is Julia? Gottlieb said, Ack, I left her with Adolph. He needs a good woman.
I am heavy into genealogy. I found grandpa married grandma exactly one month after he buried his first wife also named Julia. Exactly nine months later my dad was born. (1913). Dad was the first of 10 more kids. Grandpa raised 17 kids!!
Both Julia`s are buried on each side of him. Ya do what ya got to do. Or at least they did.
 

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