"People have children, ex's, debts, parents and close friends who are dying of one disease or another, jobs that are being downsized, health problems . . . and they have to handle all that plus the brand-new relationship with a wannabe beloved."

that is the crux of it in the above sentence.........i think it is ridiculous that someone advertises for "no baggage" and also has the expectations that i listed in my "fun" baggage post. when i lived on the ranch, i would read those ads at night and die laughing from the absurdities and the contradictions. my daughter and i actually wrote one for me, didn't send it in, which had every contradiction, known to man, in it. it was hilarious.

for anyone, man or woman, to want a person with a blank slate is the height of hypocrisy to me. reminds me of the woman my ex married. he went on a three week fishing trip and she called a moving van and sent everything that he owned "pre-Beth", to me in another state. wiped his slate CLEAN.........