YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF…”
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your butt with your bare left hand, but consider bacon “unclean.”

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can’t think of anyone you HAVEN’T declared Jihad against.

7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You’ve often uttered the phrase, “I love what you’ve done with your cave.”

10. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.

11. You bathe at least monthly whether necessary or not.

12. You have a crush on your neighbor’s goat.

Now, my younger brother, who I love dearly, is in a relationship with a white woman. They are serious and discussing the possibility of marriage. I like the woman; it’s nothing personal but I have mixed feelings about her marrying my brother. When I married my husband, it was not a way of saying “white is right”, I married my husband because I love him. But I raised my brother, he’s 16 years younger than me. I raised him when our mother got into drugs and neglected him. Then I had a relationship with a black man and gave birth to two sons(now ages 26 and 23). My sons’ father eventually walked out on me and left me a single, struggling mother. Black women are so devalued even though we are the backbone of the black community, supporting our black men through thick and thin. I was fiercely loyal to black men for a long time; I refused to date outside my race. All of that, while I was working and finishing my education to support my sons and my brother. When my white husband came along, we married because of love, not race.

However, when it comes to white women and black men. I’m a little uneasy. My brother is successful and educated. When I think of all the beautiful black women in the world that would kill to have him, I think of myself. I’m grateful for my husband but I never planned on him being white. Like I said, my marriage was not intended to encourage my brother to marry outside his race. He doesn’t need a trophy wife. Look at our president and First Lady. BOTH of them are black. Obama didn’t need a white woman in order to “look good”. and that’s how I want my brother to think. How can I get that message across without sounding like a hypocrite? Because I do believe I make a valid point.

Now, my younger brother, who I love dearly, is in a relationship with a white woman. They are serious and discussing the possibility of marriage. I like the woman; it’s nothing personal but I have mixed feelings about her marrying my brother. When I married my husband, it was not a way of saying “white is right”, I married my husband because I love him. But I raised my brother, he’s 16 years younger than me. I raised him when our mother got into drugs and neglected him. Then I had a relationship with a black man and gave birth to two sons(now ages 26 and 23). My sons’ father eventually walked out on me and left me a single, struggling mother. Black women are so devalued even though we are the backbone of the black community, supporting our black men through thick and thin. I was fiercely loyal to black men for a long time; I refused to date outside my race. All of that, while I was working and finishing my education to support my sons and my brother. When my white husband came along, we married because of love, not race.

However, when it comes to white women and black men. I’m a little uneasy. My brother is successful and educated. When I think of all the beautiful black women in the world that would kill to have him, I think of myself. I’m grateful for my husband but I never planned on him being white. Like I said, my marriage was not intended to encourage my brother to marry outside his race. He doesn’t need a trophy wife. Look at our president and First Lady. BOTH of them are black. Obama didn’t need a white woman in order to “look good”. and that’s how I want my brother to think. How can I get that message across without sounding like a hypocrite? Because I do believe I make a valid point.

It’s been almost 9 months now. We have a beautiful 4 year old boy who is the light of my life. I am just getting my life back together. I thought I had a happy marriage, nothing out of the ordinary, normal marriage going on 6 years, dated for almost 2 years before we got married. I loved my wife very much and I thought see loved me too, but I got the shock of my life.

I was a loving husband never drank, did drugs, cheated, gambled or lied to my wife, not a perfect man but responsible. We never argued, except for minor disagreements that we always worked out. And we we not in any financial debt, granted we weren’t making millions but when had everything under control as a team. We both come from stable families also.

The signs of her wanting out almost came out of no where, because she was talking about having another child 2 months before and got a room ready for the baby. It shocked everyone, and turned our lives upside down. I was numb, confused, scared, depressed, but tried not show any of it for my son sake. I want him to remain as happy as possible.

I pleaded with her to go to counseling, but she said we were past that. I tried to paint a picture for her about what she was doing, but she didn’t care. She didn’t want to talk about anything and gave me vague answers, she said there was no one else. She said horrible things, but I didn’t reply with anger, I bit my tongue. I gave up verbal pissing matches when I was younger because they never get you anywhere, but more anger and confused.

The reason she gave was that I didn’t listen to her, or that I did but I didn’t understand her. I told her everyone processes things differently and if she thought I wasn’t listening, lets find a different way to communicate. No chance, “we were past that” I said I never had the chance in the first place, and she just clammed up.

So now she was someone I didn’t even know, I got some counseling myself from therapist good in the field. They told me to support here decision, so I did mostly for my sons sake, at this point because he was very confused and scared as well.

I even helped her find an apartment for 4 months and now she has a house of her own, which I help renovate since I am a contractor by trade. It was killing me to help her leave me, but I did it because I am a better person then she will ever know and I love my son. I wanted a good place for my son to live and I wanted things to stabilize out. She even wanted to move 2 blocks away, but settle for about a half mile.

Everything is about her, she puts herself first and doesn’t seem to care about anything unless it for her. I have stopped being available to her needs about 2 months ago, because I am no doormat and she has abused my kindness, again anything I do now is for my son and myself.

Oh, and we have the same lawyer too things are amicable on that front because we decided not to give the lawyers the money. We both have equal time with our son. Nothing makes any sense at all.

I would have never left her or broke our family up under any circumstance. Life and marriage are not perfect and when I took my vows they were for better or for worse. (sigh)
When there is a breakdown in communication it is both parties responsibility to tell the other.

Not everyone is completely intuitive, especially after a long day and when there is a toddler in the house, they require a lot of attention.

Like I said I would have never given up on my wife, all she had to do was say we need more quality time or your not listening we need to get help to learn how to communicate again.

My wife CAN have goat’s milk.
If this is possible that would be great. Or if anyone knows any good substitiutes for any of these ingreedients I could try to figure it out from there.

My best friend is someone with whom I play ball with every week or two, and we will go out to the bars every now-and-then for a few drinks. On a couple of occassions I have gotten too drunk to drive home and my wife has gotten very upset with me. She blames not only me, but my friend for my getting too drunk. This has happened a couple of times in the past 8 months. Once was after my wife and I had a fight. It was the first time I didn’t come back home until the next day. Another was after a going away party for one of my former co-workers.

Finding a cure is not impossible, but it is definitely a long, hard battle. Raising funds for the technology for early diagnosis, treatments options, and breast cancer research is vital. Education and support to breast cancer patients is also crucial for survival. That’s why the Royal Canadian Mint has produced its second color circulation coin to help support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

This special 25-cent piece coin entitled “Creating a Future Without Breast Cancer,” displays a colored pink ribbon in its center, with three additional silver ribbons around the border. As the Royal Canadian Mint says, this coin was created as “A tribute to courage [and] a symbol of Hope.” Thirty-million coins began their circulation in Canada on April 1, 2006.

The coins are being circulated across Canada, and Canadian shoppers could receive one as a pleasant surprise in their change at their local Shoppers Drug Mart. They can also be purchased directly from the Royal Canadian Mint’s website.

However, The Breast Site, an information portal on the topic of breast health and breast cancer decided to offer 1000 coins, one to every individual U.S. reader, who didn’t have access to the coins. On June 8, 2006 The Breast Site launched its Pink Ribbon Coin Promotion, offering the breast cancer coin to its U.S. readers for a limited time as a symbol of hope.

Well, I’m happy to announce that The Breast Site has officially sent out its 1000th pink ribbon coin! We’d like to thank every reader who filled out the online form to receive their very own free breast cancer coin. Only 1000 coins were available, so hopefully you were one of the lucky recipients who submitted your form before the 1000th coin was sent today.

Amie Cunningham, a writer for thebreastsite.com who also worked on the team that mailed out the Pink Ribbon coins says, “It was so great to see so many men and women of all ages taking advantage of this special opportunity! It’s too bad that there were only 1000 coins available, because there were many applicants who submitted after the last coin was sent.”

Editors at The Breast Site urge readers to continue to check back for other great promotions that the site plans to introduce in the future. Cunningham notes, “The very first Breast Site newsletter will be launched in the very near future.”