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Finding and Keeping a
New Age Farm Partner
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LETTER TO A YOUNG FARMER
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Finding and Keeping a New Age Farm Partner
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LETTER TO A YOUNG FARMER
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Finding and Keeping a New Age Farm Partner
they can meet people looking for love and marriage? Come on
now. Is there almost anyone in this day and age so cut off from the
mainstream that they can’t find someone to date? I don’t believe it,
unless maybe if you live in the middle of the Sahara Desert, and even
then I’d bet against it. I spent my wild youth in a seminary located
out in the woods, studying for the celibate priesthood. You can’t get
any more isolated than that, but believe me, there were still plenty
of girls around if one had a mind in that direction. Sex has hardly
ever been stymied by anything so easily out-maneuvered as isolation.
If you can’t find a mate, your problem runs a whole lot deeper than
where you live or what you do for a living. When I left the seminary,
I went back to farming, milking a hundred cows in a very rural area.
That’s hardly mainstream. But it often seemed to me there were girls
peeking out from behind every crossroads stop sign in the county.
And one is never so busy as not to find time to peek back. I know a
divorced farm guy who has gone the internet route to courting, and
between text-messaging and chatting on his cell phone and traveling
around checking out prospective mates, he racks up more hours at
home than he used to complain about when he was married.
When two contrary farmers from far apart do fall in love, the
outcome is doubtful because one of them will have to move. If
you marry someone from far away, you will spend a lot of time
traveling and visiting your in-law family. This can become a real
burden when a farm is involved. If you get past that hurdle, there
comes a time when help is needed in caring for children or parents,
or grandchildren and grandparents. Lucky above all are the parents
whose children either remain close to home or return to the home
grounds to live close by. If you are a farmer with your heart buried
in your land, it is important to talk this over with a prospective
mate. I was lucky again. When Carol and I decided to move back
to farm country, we could have moved to her old stomping grounds
in Kentucky, but she was kind enough to agree to settle on mine.
We have been married for over fifty years now, and I know for
sure that the success of our marriage wasn’t because of the number
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