text: Why do longtime partners split after getting married? #Relationship Advice#divorce#relationships Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Apr 23 2009) Ariel arielmstallings Photo by Bohemian Noir Visions. Thanks to psych0faerie for submitting this to the Offbeat Bride Flickr pool! One thing that is freaking me out at the moment is when I hear of friend and friends of friends, who marry after being together for 7-8 years, but end up divorced after the first year or so. This terrifies me, as I really want to get/stay happily married, but I wonder why this happens … when people are together for ages, get married and then split. What causes this? -Jan It's absolutely not uncommon at all: longtime partners who are together for years decide to get married, and then almost immediately decide to get divorced. What's going on? Could this happen to you? Or me? Or any of us? Obviously, there's no way for us to ever know exactly what makes individual couples split up. But when it comes to this trend, I've got a theory… For better or for worse, each of us has expectations about what being married will mean to the relationship. For some people, that expectation might be, "Absolutely nothing will change, other than that we'll be wearing rings and will have had a big party." For other people, the expectation might be, "Everything will change. Our whole relationship will be on a different level, and how we interact with the world will be radically shifted!" Neither of these assumptions is in any way wrong. The problem, however, is when the two people getting married don't talk about their expectations. One partner goes in thinking, say, "This is going to be awesome: once we're married, the sex is going to get way kinkier because the trust is going to be so much stronger between us!" The other partner goes in thinking, "This is awesome: I'm never going to have to travel alone again. We'll go places together!" The issues arise when they don't talk these things over, and then go home after the wedding and the one partner is thinking, "Wow, the honeymoon was dull. Where's my kinky sex?" And the other partner is thinking, "Wait, did they just say they don't want to go to San Francisco with me next weekend? I thought we were doing everything together now!" …See the problem? Related Post Offbeat Divorce, Part 1: The Struggling Hi, my name is Kate and I failed. I had a somewhat offbeat wedding, was married for 8 years, ultimately failed at it, and got... Read more Obviously, if it were all this simple, the solution would be easy: talk to your partner about your expectations for marriage! And that's a great first step. But duh: half the time, a lot of us aren't even conscious of what our expectations are. This is hard stuff to quantify and articulate. "Um, when we're married, I want you to stick up for me when your friends make fun of what a geek I am…not like, all the time, but at least most of the time. And I don't want to be the only one to take out the garbage. And I want you to plan at least one special night for us a week. Well, ok, maybe one a month?" It's hard to put your finger on what marriage means to you. Chances are decent that your own values about marriage are either a reflection of OR reaction against what you grew up with. Not to get all Freudian on you, but this is where talking about your parents' marriages/relationships can come in handy. After all, these are the relationships that you grew up around, and chances are decent that your own values about marriage are either a reflection of OR reaction against what you grew up with. Talking about other people's marriages can help you better get your brain around your own values. Is being married all about spending all your time together? Is it about supporting each other in your separate endeavors without insecurity? Is it about more kinky sex or more gentle couch snuggles after work? Is it about building a home together or is it about traveling the world together? Is it about feeling so confident in your commitment that you feel ok about going to grad school on opposite coasts? In marriage as in wedding planning, you can't doze off at the wheel, or you wake up and realize you're living someone else's life. For offbeat het couples, I think the most common troublesome expectations are issues of "normative" roles. These could be assumptions about gender roles ("Now she'll cook, and I'll work overtime!") or home/family planning ("Now we'll get a little house and he'll get me pregnant!"). All too often, these aren't even expectations we're aware of … wildly progressive het couples fall into the long-established husband/wife roles without even realizing what they're doing. In marriage as in wedding planning, you can't doze off at the wheel, or you may wake up and realize you're living someone else's life. I have no idea what marriage means to you and your partner, but when I see couples who've spent years living happily together as partners suddenly fall apart as spouses, I usually figure they had very different expectations about what marriage would mean to their relationship. And either they didn't talk about it, or they couldn't articulate what the differences were. Moral of the story? Talk lots. If you discover lots of differences, consider pre-marital counseling. Do your best to understand both your own values and your partner's values. Ideally, they'll just magically overlap. Realistically? HA! There are compromises to be made. Ariel Author of three editions of the Offbeat Bride book and the forthcoming From Shitshow To Afterglow, Ariel Meadow Stallings acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives in Seattle with her son, and if she's not reading or writing books, chances are good that she's dancing or happy-crying. She writes weekly essays for her new publication, The Afterglow. PREVIOUS Virginia & Lars' Snow White & the Red Rose Wedding NEXT Kara & Nicki's Woodsy Weekend Wedding Show/Hide comments [ 130 ] you really said it. REALLY. in fact – i think your reasoning is exactly why my sister got a divorce after a year and a half. before my sister and her ex-husband got married – they really appeared to be perfect for each other, and were very much in love. then BOOM, honeymoon is over, and all of a sudden my sister is more like a mother to her new husband than a wife. totally not what my sister wanted out of marriage – exactly what her ex-husband wanted. i think a lot of couples tend to blow off the advice that "communication is THE most important thing in a relationship." does it sound a little cliche? maybe. but is it good advice? it's the BEST advice. my guy and i never stop talking to each other. sometimes i have to pull it out of him – but he appreciates it. get to know your significant other. focus on how they communicate. chances are you're both different, and think in different ways – even if it's not that obvious, because you have so much in common. i center my relationship around talking to each other, and trying to understand the way we're each thinking and why. i think another great piece of advice is – apologizing isn't the end of the world, sometimes you just need to do it. and even when you don't need to do it, your partner will probably appreciate it more than you realize. Reply 'Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcano's, then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision You have to work out whether your roots are so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because that is what love is. love is not breathlessness. It is not excitement. It is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do, love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both Art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love, have roots that grow toward each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree, not two.' I heard this at one of the weddings I have been too, and when looking out for suitable and truthful readings, this not only moved me, but helped me. Possiably cheesy, but hey…its form captain Corelli's mandolin. Other quote I along similar lines i have found on a card.. 'Love is not longingly staring into each others eyes, it is looking out together, in the same direction'. basically a short version of the above, but still basically considering more about the relationship its self, rather than the lustful honeymoon period, that far too many films etc.. have been drumming into us all our live on how it should be for us ,all day, every day. No wonder some people feel disappointed with real life. Reply I've seen it time and time again. My ex-boyfriend's marriage fell apart in this manner (years before I came along.) They got married because the relationship was on the rocks and they really expected the "semi-permanence" of the marital contract would somehow fix it. When a long-term relationship is on the rocks there are different ways people try to fix it. Some couples get married, some decide to have babies, some get dogs… some go to counseling. Reply Has anyone on here seen the Woody Allen movie "Husbands and Wives"? This thread brings to mind the beginning of that film, where the couple played by Mia Farrow and Woody Allen are horrified — devastated — to learn that a couple they're longtime friends with are splitting up. In that scene, of course, the humor comes from the fact that the other couple seems relatively unfazed. (Later, of course, we find out that they're anything but.) I guess my point is that there's something frightening, terrifying even, about seeing another couple who, for all intents and purposes *could be you* deciding to call it quits. And in our desire to distance ourselves from those people, we say, "Oh, but they didn't communicate the way we do, they weren't prepared, they didn't think ahead, they didn't go to a counselor. They didn't read this relationship book or that one or learn erotic massage. Their marriage was a band-aid marriage, not a real marriage. They weren't like me and my fiance/e, not at all. No siree." We want to blame them, in one way or another, to deem them deficient. We want to believe that what happened to them was preventable because we desperately want to prevent it in our own relationships. I'm not saying that we can't learn anything from other people's relationships and break-ups, because obviously we can. And I'm not saying that communication isn't important, because obviously it is. But it's a bit naive to think that there's any way armor ourselves against heartbreak and divorce and all the mad messiness of life, any more than we can armor ourselves against death. Reply My "THIS!" button isn't big enough for this response. 🙂 Reply Excellent advice, everyone! My six tidbits (mostly focused around communication): 1. Go see a couple's counselor before you make any big commitments. It was counseling that got my husband and I over the problems that were hindering our relationship while we were dating long term. After we were able to forgive each other, we were able to get engaged and then get married. I cannot recommend couple's counseling enough. Granted, we were excellent with communicating with each other before, but needed a third, unbiased person to get over a few humps that were making our relationship at an impasse. 2. Get one of those books with the gazillion questions. Even though we knew each other very well (we were good friends for many years before getting together) it's still good to cover all those areas and ask questions that you may have felt uncomfortable broaching on your own but still need to discuss or topics that you never thought to ask. 3. If your partner does something that bothers you (even if it's minor and you feel stupid about feeling that way), tell him/her right away/anyway. Don't let it fester and then blow out of proportion down the road. Nip the problem in the bud now, saves much heartache. 4. Treat your partner how you would want to be treated – with the utmost respect, patience, giving them your full and complete attention when they are talking, and never taking him/her for granted. I always try to thank my husband for everything he does both big or small. Appreciation goes a long ways! 5. Don't expect your partner to be a mind reader! You have to communicate you likes/dislikes, etc. If you want to make a fantasy a reality, you have to let you partner know. 6. Realize your partner is as imperfect as yourself. Cut them some slack when they mess up (just like you would want them to cut you slack when you screwed up). I could go on and on but I will stop… Cheers! Reply 7. Give a heartfelt apology to your partner when you mess up. Admiting your were wrong will speed up the healing process! Reply Hey SM! My wedding will be 3 days before my 10 year anniversary. I too wanted to finish school and grow up some before getting married. For years now friends and family have been making jokes about the long wait. I have decided to laugh along and we have a 10 year anniversary theme for our wedding. Reply We're getting married one day before out five year anniversary. We've lived together for almost four years, so when the minister asked us what we think will change when we get married, it kinda surprised me. I hadn't really thought about it, but I answered instinctively, "Nothing. At least I hope nothing will change!" My fiance agreed. There are a couple of things that will change in the future, mainly having a child, but for now, we're really content in our relationship the way it is and besides having a piece of paper and the lifelong commitment, I really hope our day-to-day relationship stays on the same track we've been on. When the minister acted like we gave the right answer, I was pleased! Reply As an interpersonal communication scholar (ok, ok, grad student) who's just seen a friend get divorced after less than 6 months of marriage, I love your advice. People always say that communication is important (and that's why I study it) but saying that, and finding a way to actually do it is very difficult. Thanks for the concrete questions that should be asked before the wedding, and certainly before the marriage. Reply Hi! I'm not sure if someone has said this but I think you've missed why people get divorced after so long being togther and then getting married. I bet you that most of them have been together for ages, they have shared bank accounts and property and maybe even babies. But then they feel they aren't close anymore and so one side of the couple thinks the way to get closer is to be married, so they either propose or try and force/talk their partner into asking. Then they get married and marriage doesn't solve it (and it makes it worse because they are in debut for the wedding). So they divorce and move apart. I think this is a much more common situation then people finding 'being married' different. Because if you're living together you'd probably be sharing a lot of things anyway. [That said I have no married friends, so this is a theory only.] Reply I recently borrowed the book 1001 Questions to ask before you get married. (It's by Monica Mendez-Leahy) It's meant to offer a spring board for questions couples might not ask. Reply Great advice everyone! I am glad I read through all the comments – I am what you would call a hesitant fiance. Although we have agreed to get married after 3 years together, I am having second thoughts. Why can't we just stay as we are now – happily committed partners? I have plenty of friends that are in 10+ year relationships without any plan of getting married. I suppose part of me wonders what will really be different after a legal ceremony versus what we have now. I cannot come up with one tangible thing that would change. So I keep asking myself "why?" I was especially glad to read Lisa's comment about 'Nothing' changing after getting married – I guess this is my conundrum: if nothing will change, why bother? Reply Wanda, while nothing about my relationship changed after my wedding, there were a lot of social advantages to being married: easier taxes, shared healthcare, cheaper car insurance. Reply Wanda – We didn't think much would change after we got married. After all, we were already living together and madly in love. Weren't we just making it legal? Things did change. Getting married, getting up in front of all our friends and family members, looking into each others' eyes, declaring publicly and legally "you are my new family, and you will forever be the most important person in my life", it really DID take things to a new level for us. Being husband and wife instead of boyfriend and girlfriend… that MEANS something to us. We DO feel closer, less guarded, more dedicated – because we've declared, in a very real sense, that committing to each other is more important than keeping our options open. Reply Thanks for the feedback – Ariel I hadn't really thought about the taxes, that's a good point. We've hadfo shared healthcare for a few years now, and gave up our cars/insurance this year to save $, but I agree some things are better/cheaper when it's legal. Hibryd – thank you, that definitely gave me a new perspective on the situation. Reply I have got to say, thank you! Now I have a print-source for the naggers in my life. Both my FH and I are children of divorcees. So whereas we have enjoyed a partnership for almost 10 years now, we have been procrastinating on marriage. Not because we don't love each other, but because we wonder what weird "isms" we'll develop once we are – what inner ball-and-chain demons will pop out. In fact, my FH is proposing the idea that in our ceremony we leave out "husband" and "wife" altogether. We haven't decided on a substitute phrase yet, but "spouse-figure" is in the top 5. Thanks again! Reply You are abosulutely right!! Those are the EXACT reasons why my first marriage failed–and it was already in that sort of trouble before the actual wedding day. We were both living up to some preconcieved 'expectation" and niether of us discussed what we wanted. Reply Smurfybride – "we wonder what weird "isms" we'll develop once we are – what inner ball-and-chain demons will pop out." There won't be. You've been together for 10 years. There is nothing left to hide. If you didn't change by now, you never will. If anything, being the child of divorce (and then watching my parents date a series of disasters for the following few decades) made me believe even more in marriage, because I realized what a rare, special thing it is. Personally? I love "husband" and "wife". Those are powerful, loaded words and I love using them. I don't care what those words meant to my parents. They mean something to me. Calling him "my husband" is a handy way of saying "the most important person of my life, to whom I have given and will continue to give everything I have to offer." Reply My bf and i, who have been together for 4 years now, are talking about getting married. It's been interesting. I kind of unexpectedly realized I really wanted to get married and communication has been kind of hard. Anyway, I really wanted to recommend The Commitment Conversation as a starting place for talking about these things. (http://www.equalityinmarriage.org/cc2.html) which talks about all the things that anyone in a committment relationship – whether married or co-habitating – should talk about: finances, household chores, sex, kids etc. I think your right that a lot of it is communication issues and even though I think my bf and I are really open with each other, having the Commitment Conversation always brings up a lot of stuff. Anyway, I'd really recommend it. Reply Statistics Canada said that people who lived together before they were married were 50% more likely to get divorced once they got married than people who did not live together previous to marriage. Reply "We didn't think much would change after we got married. After all, we were already living together and madly in love. Weren't we just making it legal?" I want to amend my previous statement, because I think I can more clearly state why marriage really did take our relationship to the next level. A relationship is about love; marriage is more, marriage is bigger, marriage is more profound than that, than just love or feelings. Marriage is not just about the love you feel now, it's also the love you promise to give for the rest of your life. Marriage is not just a verbal commitment made in the privacy of your own home, it's a commitment made public, legal and binding. Marriage is not just about having fun and enjoying your current life, it's vowing that your partner's fun and enjoyment is now, if anything, more important than your own. Marriage is not just a "celebration" about your "relationship", it the day you promise to shift your priorities and put the "we" above "me". Marriage is also a nexus, a focal point, the day in which you lay all you are out on the table and say "this is me, and from now on I am yours." When you're dating the armor is on, your self-interests are alive and well, but as you get to know each other more the armor slowly comes off. The wedding is when you finally cast it all aside and mutually agree to give everything you have. I would follow my husband across the country and give him one of my kidneys when we got there, and I feel safe doing so only because, on the day we got married, he got up in front of his friends and family and promised to do the same for me. I can give more than I ever could while we were dating, or even engaged, because we have already given the ultimate gift to each other: the rest of our lives. There's nothing left to withhold. There's no reason left to keep my guard up. He knows I'm not just with him until I get bored or find someone better, because I have said in the loudest, clearest way possible that I would rather live the rest of my life with him than keep my options open. Dating is about you, your feelings, your fun, your interests. Marriage is the next level because it is a declaration to the world that your partnership is now a bigger, better, and more important thing than you are on your own. Reply I don't know if I agree that having different expectations of marriage is the primary reason that long-term couples split up. For me, it seems to be more of a confinement issue, as I often think I'd feel suffocated in a marriage. I don't know why but picturing myself in a lifelong, unmarried relationship feels much more "freeing" than marriage. I question whether some long-term couples may experience this feeling of confinement once married and then get divorced. This could just be me, though! Reply Me & Mr. Right have waited seven years before deciding to tie the knot and both of us expect a big change after the wedding, because we want to get preggers immediately! But the key is communication and shared goals. We've talked and talked and talked about it, so we both feel very confident in making these next steps. And if it doesn't work out, at least we know each other well enough after all these lengthy discussions to deal with it amicably. There's absolutely nothing wrong about waiting to get married! Reply Couples who have been together for 6 years and break up – my theroy is More than likely these couples were together for a few years not living together and then bought a place and realised completely different things about each other. Living together and sharing finances is a big issue in many break ups. If couples get married thinking this is the next step we have been together for this many years and this is the reason for getting married – don't!!!! When i was single i spent every penny i earned plus money i didn't have to spend and went on holidays every year. I met my boyfriend and we connected straight away. We were so different i spent – he was cautious with money. I changed my ways because i knew he made sense and we were able to buy our own place and now save for the wedding. You have to realise that you both can't be right all of the time and compromise is the biggest relasionship saver. If you have doubts about getting married because of everyone else's break up stories you will never be happy. You are the only one who knows in your heart that this person you love is the only person you want to be with and you trust and believe they feel the same. You will also find couples who have been in the situation of broke up and found love of life, more than likely are couples who met very young and changed their ideas of what the wanted or one or the other had no real previous relasionships and fell into habit with each other. The best advice i can give to anyone reading this is 1. Money how both of you treat this . Remember don't think if your partner is being tight it is a controlling thing, it might not be, just ensuring for your future. I thought this at first but i realised he really did have our best interests. 2. Compremise – it is okay to give in to each other. You are both different. 3. Allow each other space to do your own things from time to time. You are both individual and deserve that right. You will be better together also. This shows trust , faith and respect between you, Hope i have helped somewhat. preacing over and time to head to bed. 4. Most importantly know how to have fun together and be happy in each other company Best of luck to all and don't loose faith. Marriage is and will be hard work if you don't work at it and don't forget each other no matter what is going on in your life at the time. Discuss your feelings no matter how stupid they seem. Reply Usually, those are "bandaid marriages". That's why they divorce after a year. They tried everything. Reply this is a major reason why i'm not getting married. the relationship is good the way it is. don't want to rock the boat for a piece of paper. Reply I'm getting marry in June 2010. My parnter is a great guy. He has 4 kids they are grown. I also has three kids they are also grown. But I love this man very much. Me and him talk, we listen to he other, we both love TV, we talk on the phone just say we love each other,we both love yard work, also we have great sex. We have know n each other for a long time. We both want someone to respect us,listen,love me for me, still continue to have great sex,And sometime just to say Hi.You good point on relationship. Thank you for good thing to read. Reply This is actually a question I've been trying to work out since I was a young girl. My stepfather and my mother were together from the age I was about 2 to around 8 or 9(?). We lived together the whole time as a 'family', and then they decided to get married. They even included my stepsister and I in the ceremony in which we all 'married' together. I was in bliss because I worshiped my dad, so when nearly exactly a year later they broke up it shattered my world. In small ways I think I'm still a little off-kilter about it. As I've tried to work it out all these years I've always came to the same conclusion (once I stopped blaming myself) that they were trying to slap a bandaid on a failing relationship. They were both headed on separate paths in life and I suspect this was where they hit the juncture. To be clear, when I say I'm still a little off-kilter, I simply mean that I maybe will never learn to 'trust' a relationship, no matter how long it runs, because I saw up close and personal how two people who were seemingly crazy in love one day, divorced the next. I believe 'they' believed they should be married. I don't think it was a conscious step to 'save the relationship', but an honest unconscious last grab for what they had shared for so long. I see where my mom is today – how she lives her life – and how my dad did before he died and I know they did the right thing in splitting up. People grow, and sadly enough, not always in the same direction. Reply I think many couples end up having a lack of true communication, it's because being completely honest can be scary. My Fiance and I live a few states away from each other and in a way it's been a really good thing for us. We talk, really really talk. There is no way to avoid talking as in conventional dating where you can fill that void with dinner, movies, snuggles, and sexy time. We know so much about one another because talking is how we stay close when 1,053 miles separate us. Remember that communication despite being scary is crucial and you have to be brave and bring up the uncomfortable topics because if you don't they'll still be there in the morning. Reply I love this post and I have something to add if I may. My FH has muscular dystrophy and cant do things like go to work evey day, take less than 2 hours getting up into his wheel chair or reach out his arms to hold me. But the things that he can do are amazing, he can set up mu computer when i manage to screw it up, take care of my mothers computer, demand that we take time to talk when things get strained between us and make me feel like a princess. In the daily grind that we all go through i think alot of the little things get lost and we forget why we fell in love with that person in the first place. keeping in mind to love and respect the other persons abilities and wonderfullness can help even in the most trying of times. Sometimes all it takes is communicating to the other person that despite the problems you are going through as a couple you still see what is amazing about your spouse. ok, thats all lol. sorry it got a little long winded Reply My husband and I were together 7 years before we got married, 7 months of marriage and it is all over. We went through a rough patch before we decided to get married and decided to try so many things to "fix" it- instead we got married. I read this post at the time and I ignored it- we did talk, a lot, we were working on our relationship and I think we were both incable of recognising that it was over whilst we were in that frame of mind of wanting it to work. Once we got married, we both realised (although I attempted suicide first) that if it felt nearly over now, it would never get better. I don't think we could have split up before the wedding, and it wasn't like we had poured a lot of money into it (it must be so much harder if you have). We were on the we're getting married path and couldn't realise it wouldn't work until we got through it. Reply "We were on the we're getting married path and couldn't realise it wouldn't work until we got through it." I think that really sums it up for so many relationships. Reply My sister, after seeing so many of her long-term relationship friends get married and go through a very rocky first few years, has a theory: Those who have been together for so long, who know each other so well, really hope that nothing will change, and expect nothing to change, when they get married. They usually lived together beforehand (there was some statistic here that said that couples who cohabitated pre-marriage were 50% more likely to get a divorce), so really it seems logical that nothing would change except taxes and such. Unfortunately, things will still change when you marry. Hopefully you will have communicated about what could change, as so many people here have suggested. But more likely you are going to expect your relationship to stay the way it is. And you may not have realized your subconscious expectations that are not being met now. Or perhaps you have spent so much time and energy on the wedding itself, and now it's just going to be boring work and finances, and there seems to be nothing to look forward to. And then you might be afraid that you're together only because you've been so comfortable with each other, and the wedding was exciting and now it's not anymore, so you might be thinking your relationship is boring now. I am getting married after 5 years, during which we both lived together and apart, and I was so worried that something was going to happen our first year of marriage that will cause us to break up. But we have indeed talked about all the stuff we should have, and I'm not too worried about the communication bit. But I am realizing one last thing that I think makes for a successful first few years of marriage: While you're preparing for your wedding, stay focused on your relationship, your future together, and your lives ahead of you. Focus on the idea of you two buying houses and moving, or learning new professions, or having children eventually, or whatever you will do when you're married. If you are happy with that, and your partner has the same image of your future, you should be good. 🙂 Reply From something that happened to one of the couples I know: something was messed up with the relationship and they hoped being married would fix it. It is the same idea as some married couples who have a baby thinking that that will fix the problems. Reply One thing I think that can change after a wedding is how everyone else treats you as a couple. In the case of a good friend, her boyfriend's mother had been relatively hands-off when they were living together but unmarried. Going from "son's girlfriend" to "daughter-in-law" really changed how his mom treated her, and it was not a good change. I'm talking about creepy stuff like letting herself in when they weren't home and repainting the kitchen, or going through my friend's closet and "organizing" her clothes, then getting huffy that my friend didn't collapse in gratitude. My friend didn't know her hubby was going to let his mother's antics slide, because in the ten years prior to the marriage they'd never had that problem. They ended up divorcing after a year. Reply With regards to the conflation of marriage and family planning: I know this is is an Offbeat site, but geared toward the offbeat bride, not necessarily the offbeat woman. So I think it's perfectly natural for somebody who doesn't fall in line with the bridal magazines and expectations to conflate marriage and family planning together because for that individual, they go hand in hand (first come loves, then comes marriage…) Anyway, if one is planning a family, and not just planning to propagate, they might want to include the biological father into those plans. And the truth is that our reproductive physiology has not evolved as quickly as our social structures have. So while you don't need to married to have kids…, you do need to get your s*** together while you are still pretty young, if you want to have kids. I know there are plenty exceptions to averages, and it's nice to think that we can have any sort of life that we want….but our bodies may betray our offbeat sensibilities. So…it is possible to wait too long to start a family built on a marriage. Reply It gets tricky for those of us that already live with someone and are raising children together because in some ways we are already married. The fear of having something so good suddenly change would make anyone think twice about marrying someone but i think that you're absolutely correct. Communication is Key. Thanks for the awesome article. Keep 'em coming! Reply "…or you may wake up and realize you're living someone else's life…" *hums* And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife! (same as it ever was…) Reply This is me right now. Together for 8.5y, married 10m and planning a divorce- or as we like to call it "moving forward". There are a lot of things that went into this situation, some that have been discussed like pressure on long term committed couples and differing expectations of marriage as well as an honest look at "forever". It's not something anyone could every plan for. Reply I think that also, a lot of times couples like this think that marriage HAS to be the next natural step since they've been together so long. So they get married, realize they really haven't liked each other for like the past 5 years, and do what they should have done about one year in – they split! That freaks me out too 🙂 Reply It is a strange coincidence that this was just posted. I broke up with my husband yesterday. We were married only two years, and together for 9 prior to marriage. Why we broke up? I believe I thought he would put more effort into our future after marriage, and he did not. I went in knowing who he was and his issues, but I am a highly optimistic person and I thought he would gradually improve. Instead, marriage made him even more complacent and he lacked any motivation to make something of himself or take the steps he needed to be a better husband, mentally. I am thrilled to now have a chance at a more positive future, but understandably still grieving the future I thought I would have with him. Reply I wish you (and all in similar situations) strength during such emotional and heavy times *hug* Reply The only thing that I disagree with in this article is the inference that hetero couples are the only ones that fall into "normative roles" after marriage. In my lesbian relationship we fell into normative roles, and in my current hetero marriage (after 7 years together prior to the wedding) we have avoided it. I guess all i'm saying is that no matter your sexual orientation you can always fall into a role that's expected of you, it doesn't just happen to heteros 🙂 Reply I always wonder about this. It's an odd thing that even my other half's nan reported in her age group (50-70). I think we had an advantage because we had a long distance relationship so we had to perfect communication. Even now we live together we 'check in' as much as possible. It took a while for him to share his feelings without feeling 'weak' and for me to not hide my poor finances. But it has to be done 🙂 I love offbeat bride for articles like this. Reply Thank you for this article! My man-friend and I have been together for 9 years and we (and by that I mean mostly myself) are constantly asked about when we're getting married. It will go from innocent-ish small talk to horrifically personal inquisition in only a few moments all because they are unsatisfied with the answer "we don't want/need to". Sure the source behind that answer is more complicated, but that's none of their business. Honestly conversations about OTHER peoples expectations have started more arguments than our own expectations. I do wish that our state allowed het couples to register as domestic partners though… I feel like that option for any couple is important. Instead of married/not married. I would also like to see "Offbeat Wife" written… Hopefully it's in progress. 🙂 Reply We're still working our way towards divorce and it's a messy and difficult process, even when the goal is to remain friends after the marriage is dissolved. Having spent 10 years together it's hard for many people to imagine that we are divorcing and our friends and families reactions have often been to distance themselves or over-worry for us. Sometimes it seems we are the only "grown-ups" in this whole process. Reply 7 years is the breaking point of most relationship/marriages. "The seven year itch." I agree that most people think marriage is going to change thing or make things better. The only thing to do is communicate. Reply I'm not sure about other countries, but in Australia the average length of a marriage/long term relationship is 12 years. It's gone up in the last 10 years or so but people still call it "7 year itch" 🙂 Reply I can see how old this post is…but it's still going so I'm just going to add my thoughts. My husband and I have been together just over 12 years and married just over 2. We've been together since we were barely 16, we got engaged at barley 21 (5 years together) and married at (almost) 26 (10 years together). And we are fine…we think that getting married was just a formality. We were already married in the commitment sense; lived together, travelled overseas, bought cars together, planned our whole future together (and that we were doing at 16). I think people who are together a long time and then get married and then split up seem to think that marriage will change things. We tell people all the time, that we were just as committed before our wedding, we still had the same goals/path in mind for our shared future before our wedding. The ONLY thing our wedding changed was now I wear 2 rings and have a different last name (and you don't even have to change that). People kept asking us just after our wedding "How's married life?". We'd respond "Exactly as it was before the wedding". It didn't change anything for us. It was just a formality. Marriage is just a piece of paper (if you're doing it right before hand; you're already committed to each other). You can be committed and in love for all your lives and never get married and that should be just as valid. The mind set of 'things should be different now your 'married" is a bit silly. I tend to think things should be great between you before you get married. Why get married if you were wishing things between yourself and your partner were different? Shouldn't you be already be happy and content with him and your relationship. Why marry someone your even slightly unhappy with? Just the way I feel… Reply For me, I think things just stagnated. Once we were married, we had no other level to progress to in our relationship and I realized I was bored. I had gotten so caught up in the thought of getting engaged and then married and then suddenly I felt like "is this it?" When I looked at my husband, I realized I was only really interested in him as a friend, and outside the context of constant progression, there was nothing really there. I was complacent and bored. My husband was a wonderful person, don't get me wrong, but he wasn't what I needed romantically. Sadly, it took until the dust settled to realize it. Reply Rhiannon I can really relate to what you've said. In fact I am reading this forum as I am currently struggling with how to deal with my sudden but subconsciously not-so-sudden realistion that I don't want to be with the man I've been with for the past 9 years, and who I married last year. I think it really took being married for me to realise, and I just never thought this would happen. I'm dreading the logistics of breaking up (i.e. dropping the bombshell on our close families and closer group of coupled-up friends) as much as I am anything else. Can I ask – how did it all go down for you? Reply Megan, not sure if you can read this because I can't find your reply, but we were very lucky. We were still very good friends and because we were honest with each other and were able to realize together that this wasn't working, everything was very amicable. We decided to tell our family all at once in an email so we didn't have to say the same things over and over again. We explained that we were still friends, but that romantically we weren't compatible and we each needed different things. I know that this isn't the way things normally go down, but I think being open and trying to work things out is key, rather than just blaming or being closed to discussion. I also suggest a marriage counselor; they can be really good at helping everyone understand the root cause of issues. Reply As a divorced woman, I can lend the perspective of when you get married is just as important as who you marry. I got married to someone I dated all throughout college and graduate school right at the beginning of my professional career. Nothing could have prepared me for the fallout of my career taking off while his didn't. It upset the power dynamic of equality in our relationship, and emasculated him. While money and status had never been important to me, they mattered to him. Instead of viewing us as a team with cumulative wins, he became mean and withdrawn, eventually resorting to physical abuse, no matter how "good" (read submissive gender role) wife I tried to be to diminish my accomplishments. I'm now with someone with similar ideas of what's important in egalitarian relationship. Way smoother sailing since we had separate, established identities before we got together, and our relationship complements rather than defines us. Reply I wish I had read this before and during the beginning of my relationship that just ended with my ex…. Reply Well with much more men and women Cheating a lot more than ever is a very good reason why many marriages are failing today as i speak, and years ago most marriages did last very long like our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles did. Reply Read more comments ‹ 1 2 3 › Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. 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We lived about 3 miles south of town on Road 52. That meant we had to ride a bus to get to school. Mr. Klingenberg was the bus driver at Windsor School. He was great. He knew our names and on our birthdays he would try to spank us as we got on the bus. We loved Mr. Klingenberg. He was also the school janitor. He had gray hair and gold on one of his teeth. He rang the school bell in the bell tower. Sometimes he'd let one of us help pull the bell rope. It had a big knot at the end of it. Windsor school was old. My dad and all of his brothers went there when they were kids in the 1930s. That's where Dad learned to speak English. The school bell has been there a long time.
Mrs. Klingenberg was shy. She had blonde curly hair and wore aprons and blue dresses. She worked in the cafeteria. The Klingenbergs lived in the house next to the playground. They had a teen-aged daughter named Myrna. She was our babysitter when we were little. She laughed a lot and thought it was funny when we made tickle brushes out of wild wheat stalks. She had a little space between her front teeth, and wore her blonde hair in a flip.
Mr. Klingenberg took good care of us. He was proud of his bus. One day Kevin Klassen, the biggest trouble maker at school (he was always sitting on the green bench outside the class rooms) and Johnny Getts, his side kick (who died of cancer when we were in the 4th grade), were shooting spit wads at each other. Mr. Klingenberg asked them to stop. I guess they didn't because Mr. Klingenberg pulled the bus over and stopped. That had never happened before. He left the driver's seat and marched to the back of the bus where the trouble was. After seeing the spit wads all over the dirty floor, he made Kevin and Johnny pick them up and stuff them into their mouths, where they were kept until they got off the bus when their stops came. We all sat in silence the rest of that trip.
Sometimes we walked to school along the back avenues and ditches. It took about half an hour to get there, but most of the time we rode the bus with our country neighbors. We were often the first ones on and the last ones off because of where we lived. Road 52 was the same as Reed Ave. in town, a straight line to the school. We had good friends on the bus–Richard Wall, Mitchell Abe, Kevin Buhler, Lisa Hansen, Susan Sawatzki, Gayle Robertson, Salvador Gonzales, and our cousin Mark Laemmlen were some. We learned the countryside quite well after criss-crossing it every day on the bus.
When we went to Washington Elementary for 4th -6th grades, we joined a fleet of busses that brought the country kids into town. The bus rides were often up to an hour long. We liked it best when we got to catch the bus in our driveway. Usually we were let off by Grandma's house where Stockdale's, Wall's, and we shared the stop. In the early mornings, while waiting for the bus, we'd play in the ditch, making trails and paths inside the ditch. As winter came and it got foggy, we'd have to be careful not to miss the bus because it was hard to see it coming. If we weren't out waiting, the driver would honk for us.
When I was in Jr. High, we once had a very foggy morning. We'd wake up early to listen to the radio to see if it was a "foggy day schedule." If it was, we'd get to stay home for a few hours waiting for the fog to lift so the roads would be safe. Sometimes it was clear in town, but foggy in the country where we lived. This particular morning should have been a foggy day schedule, but it wasn't announced, so we went out to wait for the bus. Pam was our bus driver. She had been our driver for some time. People whispered that she was gay. She wore cowboy boots and tank tops and she didn't shave under her arms. She wore her hair in a pony tail every day. It was long, dark and greasy. We liked her OK, but she made us a little nervous.
On that morning, I took the seat right behind Pam in the very front. It was very foggy. We were going east on El Monte, and came to the yellow flashing light that signaled an intersection. It was too foggy to see the intersection. We weren't going very fast, but before we knew it, we had rear-ended a car that had rear-ended a car that had mistakenly stopped for the light. You couldn't see more than a few feet in front of you. As we crashed into the car, I was thrown all the way to the windshield, but was able to stop myself without getting hurt. The kids in the very back seat of the bus were scared stiff and Pam told them not to move. They were all on their knees looking out the back window waiting for the next hit. Pam went out to inspect the damage, and we found that there were cars backed into each other on all four roads coming into the intersection.
Eventually we made our way out of the pile up and back to the school. Mrs. Cockeran, the P.E. teacher didn't believe our tale when we came into the locker room late. I'd never been in a crash before, but they were very common in our valley fog.
In high school, we still rode the bus occasionally. But with early morning seminary, and with more and more activities after school, including swim practice, we most often got a ride into town in the mornings and a ride home from mom at the end of the day. Every once in awhile Dad would let me drive the one ton truck to school. There weren't many kids who were allowed to drive to school. I loved pulling into the parking lot in the one ton. It was pretty cool.
I sometimes miss those years of riding on the bus. We had good friends, good times, and good adventures while sitting together with friends on our way to and from school.

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Nubia is ZTE's subsidiary which released a couple of really compelling smartphones last year. Nubia has rolled out the Nubia Z9, Z9 Mini and Z9 Max handsets in May last year. That being said, Nubia is still a China-focused company, at least judging by the Nubia smartphone product placement. That might change soon considering the fact that the company introduced the global nubia.com site back in January during CES. We do expect several Nubia products to hit markets outside of Asia this year, and the upcoming Nubia Z11 Mini handset might be the first to do so at some point, read on.
The Nubia Z11 Mini has been certified by TENAA (China's equivalent to the FCC) last month, and the company has announced that they will host an event on April 19th. We assumed that the Nubia Z11 Mini is coming, and the company has, more or less, just confirmed that fact. If you take a look at the provided image, you'll get to see Nubia's official April 19th teaser, and as you can see, the company is teasing a small smartphone which you can fit in your wallet / small purse. This is not all that surprising considering the fact that Nubia users voted they prefer 4.7-5" smartphones in a recent pool shared by the company's co-founder. Now, the question remains, will Nubia introduce the Nubia Z11 and Z11 Max at said event as well? It is possible, but we haven't seen any indication that might happen, Nubia has been teasing the Z11 Mini alone thus far, and that's the only handset that was certified by TENAA up to this point. The company might be planning to release the Nubia Z11 and Z11 Max in May, one year after the announcement of the Nubia Z9 line, but we cannot confirm that. We'll just have to wait and see what happens on April 19th, who knows, maybe the company decides to introduce all three phones after all.
That being said, let's take a look at Nubia Z11 Mini's probable spec sheet, shall we. According to TENAA, Nubia Z11 Mini will feature a 5-inch fullHD (1920 x 1080) display, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The phone will be fueled by the Snapdragon 6XX 64-bit octa-core processor, which is Qualcomm's mid-range offering. The phone will also ship with a 2,750mAh battery, and a 16-megapixel snapper on the back. The 8-megapixel camera will be available up front, and Android 5.1 Lollipop or 6.0 Marshmallow will come pre-installed on the handset with Nubia's custom UI installed on top of Google's OS.


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What is the stance of Islam on explicit sexual roleplay on the Internet (cybersex) with someone they are not married to?
Question edited to remove unnecessary details. We cannot answer questions relating to modern political entities and their legal systems. Also, the ruling is the same for men and women, so I removed that specification from the question as well. – Ansari Jun 24 '15 at 5:34
Sharia is more likely a reference to Islam cybersex is a modern issue so fiqh is the better choice for a tag. – Medi1Saif♦ Apr 12 '19 at 8:38
According to Islam, it is considered as haram practice to have such relations as you said
explicit sexual roleplay on the Internet (cybersex) with someone they are not married to.
Since this kind of relation can be led to haram (forbidden) acts (or thoughts) and actually Satan will be the third person between you and the person who you are chatting to. Reading the following two sites would be constructive and helpful for you as two related issues.
Your welcome @EidolonSpectre. Many people interested in doing many Sins, but I reckon solely a limited group of them are great and successful in front of the sins. God willing, you can be counted as one of those Mo'mens who can overcome sins. Then Allah will give you much more than ... Good luck. – اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد Jun 25 '15 at 7:13


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DERA BUGTI: Provincial Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti chaired a high level meeting in Sui Tuesday.
Earlier he reached Sui by special plane and proceeded to Zain Loti. He offered Fateha for the departed soul of a woman killed in bomb attack on a vehicle two days ago. Eight women and a man were also injured.
Minister enquired about health of injured persons and announced Rupees 0.1 million each for them.
He then returned to Sui and held a meeting with tribal notables. They included Wader Ghulam Qadir Bugti, Wadera Muhammad Bakhsh Bugti, Jamal Khan Kalpar, Wader Ali Muhammad Mundar, Ziaullah Kalpar.
Notables apprised the minister of problems of their area. Minister directed DPO and Assistant commissioner Sui for immediate arrest of most wanted criminals and ensure peace in the area.
Home Minister also chaired a high level meeting during his visit to Sui today. Tribal notables, DPO Dera Bugti Waheed Khattak, Assistant Commissioner Sui Qasim Nadeem Bugti and others were present.
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Study of Pembrolizumab and Mifepristone in Patients With Advanced HER2-negative Breast Cancer
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03225547
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : July 21, 2017
Last Update Posted : October 8, 2019
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This is a Phase II study of pembrolizumab plus mifepristone in advanced breast cancer patients. The study will include a safety lead in of ten patients. Patients who are deemed eligible and have signed informed consent will be treated with pembrolizumab at a fixed dose of 200 mg intravenously on day 1 of each 21 day cycle for each dose level. Mifepristone 300mg PO be administered daily starting the week prior to pembrolizumab.
Once the safety of the combination is confirmed (study will be paused at least 6 weeks after first 10 patients are enrolled for safety evaluation), dose expansion cohorts will be performed in parallel for two cohorts: cohort 1 in triple-negative breast cancer and cohort 2 in hormone receptor positive breast cancer.
|Condition or disease
|Advanced HER2-negative Breast Cancer
|Drug: Pembrolizumab Drug: Mifepristone
|Phase 2
Eligible patients will be treated with pembrolizumab on day 1 of every 21 day cycle, given at a dose of 200 mg. Mifepristone 300mg PO will be administered daily starting the week prior to pembrolizumab. Enrollment will be paused after the first 10 patients are enrolled in the study for a safety evaluation. Once safety is confirmed, dose expansion cohorts will be performed in parallel for each indication
- Hormone receptor positive, hormone refractory advanced breast cancer (n = 25-34)
- Triple-negative advanced breast cancer (n = 27-40) Mandatory pre- and on-treatment tumor biopsies will be obtained in order to evaluate immunological changes in these tissues.
Cycle length is 21 days. Patients will be evaluated every 3 cycles until progression of disease unless the patient is otherwise withdrawn from the study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|74 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Intervention Model Description:
|The first 10 patients will receive the same treatment. Enrollment will be paused to undergo a safety evaluation. After which, enrollment will continue and two cohorts will be preformed in parallel.
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study of Pembrolizumab and Mifepristone in Patients With Advanced HER2-negative Breast Cancer
|Actual Study Start Date :
|February 12, 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|September 2020
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|September 2020
Experimental: Cohort 1
Enrollment will be paused after the first 10 patients are enrolled in the study for a safety evaluation. Once safety is confirmed, patients with hormone receptor positive, hormone refractory advanced breast cancer will be enrolled in cohort 1. Regardless of cohort, all eligible patients will be treated with pembrolizumab (on day 1 of every 21 day cycle), and mifepristone (administered daily starting the week prior to pembrolizumab).
Drug: Pembrolizumab
Pembrolizumab 200mg will be administered to all patients on day 1 of every 21 day cycle.
Other Name: Keytruda
Drug: Mifepristone
Mifepristone 300mg will be administered to all patients daily starting the week prior to pembrolizumab.
Other Name: Mifeprex
Experimental: Cohort 2
Enrollment will be paused after the first 10 patients are enrolled in the study for a safety evaluation. Once safety is confirmed, patients with triple-negative advanced breast cancer will be enrolled in cohort 2. Regardless of cohort, all eligible patients will be treated with pembrolizumab (on day 1 of every 21 day cycle), and mifepristone (administered daily starting the week prior to pembrolizumab).
Drug: Pembrolizumab
Pembrolizumab 200mg will be administered to all patients on day 1 of every 21 day cycle.
Other Name: Keytruda
Drug: Mifepristone
Mifepristone 300mg will be administered to all patients daily starting the week prior to pembrolizumab.
Other Name: Mifeprex
- Rate of overall response based on RECIST 1.1 [ Time Frame: From the time of first documented complete response or appearance of one or more new lesions, until the first documented date of recurrent or progressive disease, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months. ]Determine the overall response rate (ORR) based on RECIST 1.1 of the combination of pembrolizumab and mifepristone in the different subtypes of breast cancer (hormone receptor positive and triple-negative)
- Number of patients with adverse events [ Time Frame: Up to 3 years ]Determine the safety and tolerability of the combination of pembrolizumab and mifepristone
- Rate of overall response based on irRECIST [ Time Frame: From the time of first documented complete response or appearance of one or more new lesions, until the first documented date of recurrent or progressive disease, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months. ]Determine the ORR based on irRECIST of the combination of pembrolizumab and mifepristone in the different subtypes of breast cancer (hormone receptor positive and triple-negative)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Common to both cohorts
- Patients must have histologically confirmed breast cancer that is metastatic or locally advanced and unresectable.
- Patients must have evaluable disease as defined by RECIST 1.1 with tumor lesion > 10 mm by CT scan or caliper measurement on clinical exam or lymph node ≥ 15mm in short axis.
- ECOG performance status of 0 or 1.
- Age ≥ 18 years. Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of pembrolizumab in combination with mifepristone in patients < 18 years of age, children are excluded from this study, but will be eligible for future pediatric trials.
- Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:
- absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mcL
- platelets ≥ 80,000/mcL
- total bilirubin within normal institutional limits
- AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 2.5 × institutional upper limit of normal
- creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min/1.73 m2
- INR ≤ 1.5 x ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use on anticoagulant.
- Females of child-bearing potential (defined as a sexually mature woman who has not undergone hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, or who has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months prior to study enrollment) must:
- Commit to abstinence from heterosexual contact or agree to use effective contraception without interruption beginning at least 28 days prior to starting protocol therapy, while on study medication, and for 6 months following the last dose of therapy.
- Have a negative serum pregnancy test (β -hCG) result at screening.
- Male subjects must practice abstinence or agree to use a condom during sexual contact with a pregnant female or a female of childbearing potential while participating in the study, during dose interruptions and for 6 months following protocol discontinuation, even if he has undergone a successful vasectomy.
Contraception Mifepristone is an abortifacient agent with the potential for teratogenic effects . Pembrolizumab may have adverse effects on a fetus in utero. Furthermore, it is not known if pembrolizumab has transient adverse effects on the composition of sperm.
For this trial, male subjects will be considered to be of non-reproductive potential if they have azoospermia (whether due to having had a vasectomy or due to an underlying medical condition).
Female subjects will be considered of non-reproductive potential if they are either:
- postmenopausal (defined as at least 24 months with no menses without an alternative medical cause; in women < 45 years of age a high follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level in the postmenopausal range may be used to confirm a post-menopausal state in women not using hormonal contraception or hormonal replacement therapy. In the absence of 12 months of amenorrhea, a single FSH measurement is insufficient.); OR
- have had a hysterectomy and/or bilateral oophorectomy, bilateral salpingectomy or bilateral tubal ligation/occlusion, at least 6 weeks prior to screening; OR
- has a congenital or acquired condition that prevents childbearing.
Female and male subjects of reproductive potential must agree to avoid becoming pregnant or impregnating a partner, respectively, while receiving study drug and for 120 days after the last dose of study drug by complying with one of the following:
- practice abstinence† from heterosexual activity; OR
- use (or have their partner use) acceptable contraception during heterosexual activity.
Acceptable methods of contraception are‡:
Single method (one of the following is acceptable):
- intrauterine device (IUD)
- vasectomy of a female subject's male partner
- contraceptive rod implanted into the skin
Combination method (requires use of two of the following):
- diaphragm with spermicide (cannot be used in conjunction with cervical cap/spermicide)
- cervical cap with spermicide (nulliparous women only)
- contraceptive sponge (nulliparous women only)
- male condom or female condom (cannot be used together)
hormonal contraceptive: oral contraceptive pill (estrogen/progestin pill or progestin-only pill), contraceptive skin patch, vaginal contraceptive ring, or subcutaneous contraceptive injection
Abstinence (relative to heterosexual activity) can be used as the sole method of contraception if it is consistently employed as the subject's preferred and usual lifestyle and if considered acceptable by local regulatory agencies and ERCs/IRBs. Periodic abstinence (e.g., calendar, ovulation, sympto-thermal, post-ovulation methods, etc.) and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception.
- If a contraceptive method listed above is restricted by local regulations/guidelines, then it does not qualify as an acceptable method of contraception for subjects participating at sites in this country/region.
Subjects should be informed that taking the study medication may involve unknown risks to the fetus (unborn baby) if pregnancy were to occur during the study. In order to participate in the study subjects of childbearing potential must adhere to the contraception requirement (described above) from the day of study medication initiation (or 14 days prior to the initiation of study medication for oral contraception) throughout the study period up to 120 days after the last dose of trial therapy. If there is any question that a subject of childbearing potential will not reliably comply with the requirements for contraception, that subject should not be entered into the study.
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
- Any number of prior therapies is allowed.
- Patients must consent to pre and on treatment research biopsies
- Patients must have measurable disease.
Cohort 1 (TNBC):
- Have diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer (defined as ER < 1% by IHC, PR < 1% by IHC, Her 2 negative by ASCO CAP guidelines).
- Patients with TNBC may be enrolled in dose expansion cohort A with any number of prior lines of therapy (patients will be allowed to enroll in frontline setting).
Cohort 2 (HR+):
- Have a diagnosis of ER+ breast cancer (defined as ER > 1% by IHC).
- Patients with ER+ breast cancer must have progressed on at least 2 lines of endocrine therapy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment. Exceptions include basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or in situ cervical cancer that has undergone potentially curative therapy.
- Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy prior to entering the study must have recovered from adverse events to Grade 1.
- Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the first dose of treatment.
- Prior treatment with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, anti-CTLA-4 agent, or mifepristone
- Known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Subjects with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging at least 4 weeks prior to first dose of trial treatment and any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline), have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases, and are not using steroids for at least 7 days prior to treatment.
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to pembrolizumab or mifepristone
- Uncontrolled intercurrent medical or psychiatric illness that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study because Mifepristone is an abortifacient agent with the potential for teratogenic effects.
- Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with Mifepristone, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother wishes to participate in this study.
- HIV-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible because of the potential for pharmacokinetic interactions with pembrolizumab and/or mifepristone. In addition, these patients are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with marrow-suppressive therapy. Appropriate studies will be undertaken in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy when indicated.
- Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (eg., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.
- Has evidence of active, non-infectious pneumonitis
- Has an active infection requiring intravenous systemic therapy
- Has received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to first dose of therapy. Note: Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally inactivated flu vaccines and are allowed; however intranasal influenza vaccines are live attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed.
- Has a known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), known active Hepatitis B (e.g. HBsAg reactive), or Hepatitis C (e.g. HCV RNA [qualitiative] is detected) infection.
- Long term or concurrent use of corticosteroid therapy other than for premedication or supportive care use as detailed in the protocol. Physiologic doses of steroids (e.g. equivalent to or less than oral prednisone 10mg daily) are allowed and do not require approval.
- Mifepristone can both inhibit CYP3A4 and induce CYP3A4. Addition of mifepristone to a pre-existing drug regimen may cause a mild and temporary increase in plasma drug concentration of drugs with significant CYP3A4 metabolism. Medications that are strong inducers of CYP3A4 such as carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, primidone, rifabutin, rifampin, rifapentine, St. John's Wort may decrease plasma mifepristone levels. Strong CYP3A4 inhibitor medications are expected to cause the largest increases in plasma mifepristone concentrations.
Mifepristone may increase the plasma drug concentration of concomitant medications with metabolism mediated by CYP2C9/CYP2C8. Drugs with the largest increases will be those whose metabolism is largely or solely mediated by CYP2C9/2C8 and include: Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and warfarin.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03225547
|United States, Illinois
|University of Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
|Responsible Party:
|University of Chicago
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|July 21, 2017 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 8, 2019
|Last Verified:
|October 2019
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
HER-2 negative breast cancer
breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Antineoplastic Agents
Abortifacient Agents, Steroidal
Abortifacient Agents
Reproductive Control Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Contraceptives, Oral, Synthetic
Contraceptives, Oral
Contraceptive Agents, Female
Contraceptive Agents
Contraceptives, Postcoital, Synthetic
Contraceptives, Postcoital
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Luteolytic Agents
Menstruation-Inducing Agents


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£22.99 – Exclusive limited Indies Only Red LP (not many about)
Slaves are back with their 2nd album 'TAKE CONTROL'…smashing. More info TBC – reserve early for a limited red LP. We'll also be stocking the standard naturally.
- Spit It Out
- Hypnotised
- Consume Or Be Consumed featuring Mike D
- Take Control
- Mr Industry (Skit)
- Rich Man
- Play Dead
- Lies
- Fuck The Hi Hat
- Gary (Skit)
- The People That You Meet featuring Joel Amey (Wolf Alice)
- Steer Clear featuring Baxter Duty
- Cold Hard Floor
- STD's/PHD's
- Angelica
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This week on TeeTalk we share some thoughts on the dominant victory by Brooks Keopka at the PGA Championship, share how the Flagstick Open went and invite in Web.com Tour player Brad Fritsch for an interview.
Brad breaks downs his season so far, talks a little hockey, and pulls back the curtain on some wild tales playing golf in South America during his early days as a pro.
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Massachusetts Elks Club Locations
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- some may be in: CT, NH, VT (near a border)
This file contains all of the Massachusetts Elks club locations. This has lodge number and street address. BMP file of the Elks logo has also been uploaded.


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(Warning: This post will (inevitably) contain spoilers!)
This months selection of comic books which I purchased left many questions (as they should) and took me on a rollercoaster of emotions (Don't judge me, these characters are very close to my heart). Below you can find my summaries (Brief but I figured that would be better appreciated) along with a small personal response:
All-new All-different Avengers #10
In the wake of Avengers Standoff (See here for more details: Marvel-lous Mumbling: Avengers Standoff) and the introduction of the All-new Wasp, The Avengers are off on their first mission into space. Assisting Nova in his search for his father, the Avengers take to the stars only to have their trip cut short as they get shot down and crash on a planet covered with downed spacecraft. After visiting the tower that brought them down an ominous green cloud fills the skies and begins to take in crew members from other ships. The Avengers enter the cloud, hoping to find Nova's father, where the 3 younger members become imprisoned by the deadly Annihilus, ruler of the Negative Zone! Whilst this is all going on Jarvis and Nadia (The new Wasp) go to see Janet Van Dyne (The old Wasp) where the Wasps suddenly jump into a helicopter together to go and stop a bomb exploding.
Yet another fantastic issue of a series I didn't really like to begin with. I really enjoyed seeing the Avengers go to space. However, the appearance of Annihilus was even more exciting as I know next to nothing about the character and it is great to see him up against the Avengers. Overall, a very enjoyable issue.
All-new All-different Avengers #11
Following their arrival in the Negative zone , the younger Avengers are shown doing hard labour under the watchful eye of some of Annihilus' minions. Meanwhile, the older Avengers are regrouping, the Vision rendered useless with the absence of a sun and Iron man's armour weakened by the presence of positrons (probably best you google it yourselves for fear of explaining it incorrectly). The Avengers confront Annihilus during which Iron man comes to the realisation that the band on Annihilus' wrist is none others than the original Captain Marvel. He was able to use said band to open a portal to the other dimension where the other band is. After a full-on attack at Annihilus the Avengers obtain the band and destroy Annihilus' universe destroying beam (Pretty cheesy but you can't beat a good ol' ray of mass destruction (Unless, of course, your an Avenger)). They return home safely where they suddenly realise a team member is missing. Spider-man (Miles Morales) is still trapped in the Negative Zone with a decidedly-grumpy Annihilus.
An impressive follow-up issue to #10. I enjoy seeing the Avengers working as a team (for how much longer I can't be certain (cough cough Civil War II cough cough(I really cough need to cough get this cough checked cough out cough (
I'm sorry Not sorry (Though I am sorry for the multitude of brackets within brackets)))), especially when it comes to helping each other out. Their combined concern over Spider-man was truly great to see. The cover is also one of my favourites to date, simply spectacular!
The Amazing Spider-man #13
With Peter Parker feeling a little burdened by his CEO responsibilities, Parker takes a break to go and play some baseball with the other Spider-man, Miles Morales. When he arrives he finds Miles Morales and Tony Stark playing baseball. As Morales is Parkers protégé, Peter is less than happy with the Stark-Morales friendship going on (He didn't have an objection to Stark-Routledge friendship though, broke me a little inside). One thing leads to another and after Tony insults Parker's web shooters and predicts that his company will crumble (Note: Stark is unaware that Spider-man is Peter Parker) and a full blown fight takes place. As this takes place Morales leave, mostly out of embarrassment, where Regent intercepts and captures him very subtly. A massive explosion. This "subtle" approach alerts Iron man and Spider-man to a possible problem where they find a scrap of his costume (dun dun dun!).
Other than the fact that Mr Morales can't seem to catch a break from trouble, this issue of the Amazing Spider-man, like those before it, was very enjoyable. Seeing Parker going to spend time with Miles felt very human (despite the fact it ended in a brawl). Regent's growing involvement is marvellous as I'm enjoying seeing the story from his perspective and his motivations for doing what he does.
The Amazing Spider-man #14
Regent takes centre stage in this issue of the Amazing Spider-man where he efficiently shuts down the Avengers using their powers to great effect. Iron man and Spider-man are left pondering where the Avengers have got to and come to the realisation, with the help of MJ Watson (as awkward as it sounds) Augustus Roman, CEO of Empire Unlimited, is Regent and has been taking heroes to the Cellar, a super-powered people prison where Regent is able to take their powers and use them as he wishes. Spider-man and Iron man go to confront him and are impossibly outmatched by Regent's sheer power. Meanwhile, in passing, we get a glimpse at Aunt May with the shocking sight of coughed-up blood in a handkerchief (I swear, if they kill off Aunt May I will be distraught!).
Regent taking centre stage, for me, is more than welcome as I LOVE Regent and his confused morals. His take on all super-powered people being a danger to society leads to interesting actions being taken. His costume is also a sight of wonderment. I can't wait to see what he does next.
The Astonishing Ant-man #9
With Cassie Lang, Ant-man's daughter, stuck in a tight spot at Cross Technologies Ant-man is desperate to help his daughter in anyway he can. Assembling a team of villains and heroes they set out haphazardly putting together a plan to get Lang's daughter back. Machinesmith's 22 point plan is executed resulting in the villains gaining access to plenty of loot-able technology. Lang breaks away from the group to find his daughter surrounded by Augustine Cross, Darren Cross and Crossfire (William Cross). Crossfire opens fire and Ant-man attempts to escape but is encased in a container where he is taken by his arch-nemesis Darren Cross (dun dun dun!).
Ant-man, as ever, fails to disappoint with yet another issue full of wit, fun and the general humour teaming-up with villains involves. The assortment of villains and heroes provides a very entertaining dynamic, the constant jibes producing many light chuckles. As we edge closer to the big reveal as to how he landed himself in prison anticipation mounts.
Doctor Strange #9
With the world's magic being drained at an alarming rate by the merciless Empirikul and his minions Doctor Strange is desperately seeking all the last scraps of magic left, including the bones of the Ancient One. Meanwhile, Wong is assembling a new selection of Secret Defenders to take the pain of Doctor Strange for Wong believes that it is the only way the Doctor can hope to win. The assortment includes those touched by magic, young and old, who have come to take back the parts of their lives they hold dear. Before Wong can fully set it up, Doctor Strange comes and stops it and stating that it his burden to take alone. Zapping Wong unconscious, Doctor Strange departs and the secret Defenders disassemble. Doctor Strange and his cohort of magic users take arms and go to the ruined Sanctum Sanctorum where Doctor Strange confronts the Empirikul in the cellar (a pretty nasty place where a creation of pain lives). With nothing left to lose, Doctor Strange goes in with no intention of showing mercy.
A pretty upsetting issue of Doctor Strange (This whole volume hasn't been full of joy to be fair0 with him having to defile his master's grave out of pure desperation. Seeing Doctor Strange stripped of all that he held dear is rather distressing as he is a character often seen as light-hearted and humorous. His defiant stance towards the Empirikul is pretty brilliant to read mind you.
Ms Marvel #8 (Civil War II)
Ms Marvel is called up the Alpha Flight Low Orbit Space Station where Captain Marvel puts her in charge of her Carol's Cadets, a group of teenagers with a set of skills appropriate for preventing the crimes Ulysses, a clairvoyant Inhuman, predicts to a very high accuracy. The first mission: Prevent Hijinx, leader of a Canadian ninja syndicate, self-destructing a tank and hurting lots of people in which they are successful. Kamala is in support of the new system of protecting people, saving more lives and reducing the work load. However, a conversation with her sister-in-law Tyesha makes her question her trust in the new system. Whilst intervening a predicted robbery, Ms Marvel is called to the residence of a teenage boy who is about to vaporise a nearby school. When they arrive at his home the teenage boy turns out to be none other than Kamala's friend, Josh.
I'm a huge fan of Ms Marvel (See here: Marvel-lous Mumbling: Ms Marvel) and this issue yet again shows my loyalty to the character is clearly not unfounded. Being the first Civil War II tie-in I've read I'm already intrigued by the premise of said Civil War and what it will bring.
On top of my usual orders I bought some other comic. This included the first 3 issues of Civil War II (#0-2) and well as 4 Marvel: Timely Comics. They haven't been included here purely because A) They deserve a separate post and B) The Timely comics each consist of 3 issues within one comic and I simply can't generously summarise that into a paragraph. If you have any questions or thoughts please leave them in the comments.


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Great yarn / hat combo – I highly recommend this new (at least, new to me and just recently available online) yarn from Tolt Yarn & Wool. It's YOTH Big Sister – a DK-weight in a beautiful "raw palette" of colors. It is incredibly soft, yet holds structure really well. I wanted to buy a skein in every color!
The pattern – Rutherford – was designed for this yarn, I believe, and it shows it off beautifully. It's simple and (fairly) quick, and I like the fact that it's both unisex and reversible. I knit on US 5s 16″ circulars, and the hat takes only one skein (with a fair amount left over). The colors are Cacao (on the right) and Portabella – I have another WIP in Sea Salt. If I can come up with enough one-skein projects, maybe I can work my way through the entire palette . . .Pin It


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Tuesday, 30 March 2010
'' That's not Batman !!! ''
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I love the art AND your daughters "analysis". ;)ReplyDelete
And yet this is the stuff that I love, I would read this Batmans adventures or lack of them if they were for sale, Batman going door to door asking is there were any crimes you needed solving.ReplyDelete
I dont want Grim Dark Batman he is boring, I love those Bizarro books D.C did a few years back where all sorts of alternative creators did there thang with the characters.
I would kill to do something like that.
Ha! Damn, Steve has an eye for details, eh?ReplyDelete
I no longer show my work to my daughter, and have put this up on the site without her editorial input ;o)ReplyDelete
Well spotted Steve ... yep ... that is a scarecrow in the background, and who knows ... maybe even The Scarecrow.
Thanks for your comments everyone ... like INDIO! I'd love to see a Batman who is not quite as successful as the one in about 20 comics every month ... maybe one day ;o)


text: So since my last post I've been on a few adventures! I have tramped in the Hollyford river valley (that New Zealand for trekked) I've built walls and painted roofs at the Last Light Lodge, and now am building a portable chicken coop (chook dome) at the house of Tamsin and Rob. I have posts planned for all of these adventures when my interent access is a bit more stable, but unitl then here's some photos to ennjoy!


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Venue: Motor Mile Speedway, Radford
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2019
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Sports
Advance Tickets:
• General Admission Adult: $17.00
• Suite Adult: $25.00
At the Gate:
• General Admission Adult: $20.00
• Suite Adult: $30.00
Pit Pass: $45.00
Children 12 and Under: Free
• General Admission Adult: $17.00
• Suite Adult: $25.00
At the Gate:
• General Admission Adult: $20.00
• Suite Adult: $30.00
Pit Pass: $45.00
Children 12 and Under: Free
Motor Mile Speedway presents auto racing with the CARS Tour and the Heritage Truck Centers 250 on Saturday, May 18, 2019 with the green flag for the first race starting at 7:30 pm.
Enjoy watching late model stocks cars and super late models racing for the checkered flag in the Heritage Truck Centers 250.
Formed in the fall of 2014 by owner Jack McNelly, the CARS Tour was built out of the remnants of the former Pro Cup Series. The CARS sanctioning body, continuing a desire to create a viable option for quality pavement racing throughout the Carolinas and beyond, formed the dual division CARS Tour. Featuring both super late models and late model stock cars competing on the same night at the same track, the CARS Tour is the first series of its kind to host two premier divisions under the same banner, at the same track and as part of the same event.
• 4:00 pm: Grandstand Gates Open
• 4:30 pm: Qualifying for races starts
• 6:25-6:55 pm: Fan Fest on Midway
• 7:00 pm: Driver Introductions
• 7:20 pm: Pre-Race Ceremonies
• 7:30 pm: Green Flag for First Race
Racing is back at Motor Mile Speedway!
Classes Competing & Race Order:
• Super Late Model Stock Car (125 Laps)
• Late Model Stock Car (125 Laps)
• Modified 4 Cylinder (25 Laps)
• Street Stock (25 Laps)
Races are subject to change and can be cancelled due to the weather.
To purchase tickets online, visit: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/3877496/51819-cars-tourmotor-mile-mooresville-red-dirt-promotions.
Parking is free.
Smoking and vaping are prohibited in the grandstands.
Cooler Policy:
For regular race events only, Motor Mile Speedway permits ONE (1) soft-sided, six-pack-sized cooler per ticket holder, regardless of age. Spectators in possession of a cooler will be subject to a reasonable, unintrusive search of the cooler, and Motor Mile Speedway reserves the right to prohibit any cooler for any reason based on the discretion of the front gate staff. No glass permitted. No liquor permitted.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/r0zpxdH.jpg.
For all the visitor information, visit: https://www.motormilespeedway.com/visitor-information.
For more information about the CARS Tour, visit: https://carsracingtour.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/CARSTour/.
For more information, visit: http://www.motormilespeedway.com or https://www.facebook.com/motormilespeedway/ or call 540-639-1700.
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21-04-2017 by Maurice Shutgens
In the past months, Laikipia in central Kenya has seen numerous incidences of the killing of wildlife by armed pastoralists.
The situation remains volatile in places, with drought and local politics being the primary reasons for the unrest.
Elephants have come into the firing line, with over 20 killed in recent months and more injured. Some of the injured do not recover, but sometimes there is a glimmer of hope.
I got a call from Dale Scott, Loisaba Conservancy's Security and Wildlife Manager, informing me that the rangers on the 56,000-acre property had spotted an injured elephant. Initial observations indicated that it had been shot in the leg. The 30-year-old bull elephant could barely put his weight down on his leg and limped around uncertainly. The wound looked extremely serious; we needed a vet – immediately.
The ever-reliable David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust answered our call, mobilised their resources, chartered a plane and flew in a KWS team from Nairobi within a few hours. As the dust settled on the runway, Dale checked in with the rangers to find out exactly where the bull elephant was. With the rangers keeping a close eye on him we managed to find him quickly. His movements were labored and he looked to be in incredible discomfort, but only a closer look would allow us to decide on the best course of action.
Njoroge, the KWS vet, loaded his dart gun with the sedation drug as Dale carefully guided us in. Njoroge pulled the trigger and the bright pink feathered dart shot through the air, lodging itself in the elephant's rump. We hung back while the drug took effect; the elephant became drowsy and eventually went down. We moved in quickly. The elephant went down on his chest, staring at us in confusion. It took four men to push the six ton animal over onto his side so that he could be treated safely.
The bullet had entered the front of his left back leg, just above the knee joint, seemingly hit the bone and deflected out via an exit wound. Dale and the vet carefully checked his leg; it was incredibly swollen but they couldn't feel any broken bones. Despite a wound that had been festering for several weeks he was lucky. A shattered bone would have been a death sentence. The KWS team carefully cleaned out all the puss and dead tissue from the wound before administering a healthy dose of antibiotic and iodine. A special type of cement was used to fill the entry and exit holes to keep it free from infection. We had done all we could.
Once the vet administered the revival drug he quickly got to his feet, orientated himself and gingerly went on his way, disappearing into the bush without a backward glance. The conservancy rangers will keep a close eye on him for the next couple of weeks. We hope the treatment he received will give him a new chance at life but only time will tell…
(source: AG Africa Geographic)
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