A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[Synonymous]

Abra's sense of humor shines through...
"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. "
— Unattributed
universalmom
June 18, 2015, 10:20 am
Hahaha...disapproving of otters!
Persephone59
May 27, 2017, 2:43 am
Shameful little frolicking water creatures!
darkyr
August 6, 2019, 6:29 pm
Shameful? Or shameless?
LLapp
October 29, 2019, 3:01 am
No time with otters is wasted time.
abra
May 6, 2020, 2:25 am
It's otterly well spent. I used to love to see them watch them at the zoo. They knew how to spend time having fun.
montyb
December 22, 2022, 4:14 pm
This “advice” seems hardly a fair trade.

[LLapp]

I take this as a thank-you for future comments...


"There is no bullet-proof vest in my size." — Ariel Sharon

abra
October 1, 2018, 12:41 pm
This took me forever. Then all of sudden I saw ''bullet-proof''. glassguy, I declare you a genius.

glassguy
March 9, 2021, 6:48 pm
Not sure what I did, Abra, but thanks.

darkyr
April 5, 2021, 2:31 pm
Isn't it obvious. You left a comment after her, which assured her that she would, indeed, solve the quote, giving her that much needed encouragement from the future we all long to get.

abra
April 28, 2021, 8:04 pm
I think he probably held the record then with a score that was way better than my own. Or maybe it was that comment from the future thing. That's always worth a thank you.

[LLapp]

Abra and others, on being married to your best friend...
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

montyb
July 13, 2012, 1:44 pm
Expensive, beautifully scenic, and difficult to maintain.

SippyGirl
September 9, 2013, 6:53 pm
a billion years ago, when i was young, a model, of all people, was one of the first to tell me that her man - perhaps her husband? - was her best friend... that it was silly and even insulting to introduce him as anything but. it made a tremendous impression on me at the time

wordfairy
March 6, 2015, 12:18 am
Sweet, SippyGirl. Thanks much for sharing.

abra
July 3, 2015, 2:23 pm
It's kind of a cliche these days to say that you're married to your best friend. I've known my husband since I was 15. We were not high school sweethearts. We were really good friends. We knew each other for years before it became romantic. I am married to my best friend.

skeeter
October 23, 2015, 3:42 pm
Been with my husband since we were 16 years old, 48 years ago this week.

marnita
July 31, 2016, 3:02 am
Congratulations, Skeeter - that's inspiring.

cherylab1963
October 15, 2016, 1:06 am
My parents were married for 61 years when my Mom died. They were still each other's best friends. Marriages can work AND be healthy, but it takes two healthy (I don't mean physically) people who decide that giving up isn't an option. And don't say 'what about abuse or infidelity'. Hence the healthy part.

oddcouple
July 2, 2017, 5:08 pm
:Like others, I married a woman who was my friend first for about three years before I asked her to marry me. That's going on 37 years now.

GramBow
October 18, 2017, 2:12 pm
Matthew 7:26 - 27 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

LLapp
July 15, 2018, 4:42 pm
Well I had a crush on my guy for about 10 years before we finally had conversations for longer than a minute or two . . . and I was so delighted to find that there was a friendship in there that I was sensing all that time.

abra
June 14, 2019, 11:15 pm
We celebrated 51 years, 3 weeks ago. As Cheryl said, we took ''divorce'' out of our vocabulary. Things aren't always perfect, but having the underlying friendship keeps things from getting too angry. It keeps you from giving up and walking away. I agree with the quote.

Synonymous
May 6, 2022, 1:22 pm
Nice comment thread, refreshing. Bio has been corrected.

dmford60
January 1, 2023, 1:13 pm
My man and I have been a couple for 31 years, but only lived together for the first five; after that we realized we'd do better living apart. And he is still my best friend.

montyb
January 8, 2023, 2:44 pm
I met my best friend 45 years ago this month, not long after the blizzard of '78.