Gay Blogger Meme

It's a little embarassing to put up this post following Dave and Bruce's heavy-duty pieces - but, guys, it's the end of a long hot weekend. A little lightening-up is okay, n'est ce pas? I have just discovered this, though it has been circulating thru the blogosphere since the end of last month. The deal is to answer these questions, leave a comment/link on the originator's blog, then pass it along by tagging someone else to answer it. Here are the questions, my answers follow:

• 1. If we are single or in a monogamous relationship?
• 2. How long we have been with our partner/significant-other/boy/girlfriend?
• 3. How we met?
• 4. What we like to do together?
• 5. If we are single, what life with our ideal spouse/partner would look like?
  
  
• 1. In a monogamous relationship
• 2. We've been together for 24 years this Labor Day. She doesn't count one of the years, so she'd say 23. We were having a Very Bad Time, but it's part of Our History, and I think it should count. Mainly because we came through it. Don't you?
• 3. We met at the very first NEWMR (New England Women's Music Festival), which may or may not still continue, we don't know. There's a whole lot more to that story, but no one's asking.
• 4. Everything. Try out new restaurants, walk on the beach, play with our grandchildren, cook, read - one on each end of the couch with our feet in each other's laps, laugh, drive across the country, hike in the autumn woods, walk the dog, watch movies, try to identify those damn warblers, kayak, pick tomatoes. You know, everything.
• 5. If I were single, life with my ideal partner would look just like the life I have now, except maybe she'd be a filthy rich heiress and we could buy a hacienda in New Mexico and spend all our time not working.

So, there you have it. We're lucky women and we know it. Despite the fact that when one of us dies the other one will no longer have the benefit of her partner's pension or SS income and have to start living on locusts and honey. We've managed a good many years of domestic partnership simply because we love each other, love the kids we've raised and the grandchildren now in our lives. We are family, with or without the approval of state, church or society. There are many things that would have been, and would be, a lot easier if at least the state would accord us the legal status of a committed couple. Assembling these answers would yield some interesting information about how we are living, as couples especially, at this point in our time.

And now, I think I'll tag this along to our own dear TankWoman - let's hear your story!

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