Marriage:

Jerry Horner · Post by **Jerry Horner** » 15 Jan 2002 5:49 pm

I have been with the same woman for 43 years. How many on the forum have had only one wife and is still married to her. If not, how many have you been married to. Is this any of my business? Not really, just courious.

Jerry

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 15 Jan 2002 6:28 pm

Jerry, I'm on my third one, we've been together for 23 years, and married for 21. Music got the first two.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 15 Jan 2002 6:54 pm

Been married 37 years to that little girl I pushed off the teeter-totter when she was in first grade. I don't remember doing it, but then I don't remember much about fourth grade either.

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 15 Jan 2002 6:58 pm

The music biz is the toughest on marriages. However, I have spent the last 24 years with my wife (and we have a two year old--go figure...). I'm quite thankful.

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 15 Jan 2002 8:09 pm

I've been with my current, 10 years, the others must have been rehearsals on how to get past 7 years.

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 15 Jan 2002 9:24 pm

I buy a new shirt every time I get married.
I just had a new walk-in closet built.
SSSSSSSSSsseymour

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 15 Jan 2002 9:26 pm

I had a wife I really loved, once,------

But her husband came and got her!

John Hawkins · Post by **John Hawkins** » 15 Jan 2002 10:36 pm

Come Sept. 12 th '02 my one and only bride will go into our 49th year together . It has been great and she is such a wonderful wife and Mother of our super four grown children .

I've been blessed !!!
John

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 15 Jan 2002 10:49 pm

It's true, Bobbe's been married so many times he has rice marks on his face. There's a bumper sticker around Nashville: "Honk If You've Been Married To Bobbe Seymour"

Me, I've been happily married for 8 years: 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1989, and parts of 1991, 1994 and 1996.

But seriously, my wife Kathy and I have been happily married for almost 8 years, and 8 out of 23 is not bad!!!

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Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 16 Jan 2002 3:16 am

Married 9 years and now divorced for 2 months.....but final this morning at 9:00am.
Music business ruined the possibility of a continued marrige.....but you know what??..My best friend is my...now...ex-wife.
Go figure....hell we are better friends now, than when we were trying to hack out a marrige....fortunatly No kids.
So Bobbe...where do I find #2;and #3; and 4; and 5 and 6 and.......bla bla bla.

Ricky

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 16 Jan 2002 4:42 am

Bobbe quote.."I had a wife I really loved, once,------
But her husband came and got her!"......

Bobbe, did you steal that joke from Faron, or did he steal it from you?

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[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 16 January 2002 at 04:43 AM.]

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 16 Jan 2002 6:41 am

Me and Dixie,21 years,that right there tells you I ain't no real musician

Ray

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Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 16 Jan 2002 7:19 am

Married twice -- Divorced twice. I like balance.

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Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 16 Jan 2002 7:39 am

Marriage sure screws up a lot of beautiful frindships!

My wife just ran off with my best friend---I'm sure going to miss that guy!
Uff-Da!

Erv

Frank Estes · Post by **Frank Estes** » 16 Jan 2002 8:10 am

I have been married only once and it will be for 19 years in March. I will be 39 in Feb. It pays to find the right one early on and that means finding a wife with the same core values you have...Like: she loves me and I love me!

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Frank Estes

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 16 Jan 2002 11:52 am

I was married 4 times, the last one was for 32 years! I still miss her, I just couldn't keep my hands off the female fiddle player in a band I was in. Too bad, my ex had one helluva day job and really made me independent. I can't use my old line anymore " I don't care if you fire me, my wife's got a good job!"

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Have a good 'un! JH U-12

Dave Robbins · Post by **Dave Robbins** » 16 Jan 2002 12:15 pm

I am still married to the same gal. Going on 32 years for us! First marriage for both of us. If she ever tried to leave I'd go with her! She can't get away from me that easy...No siiirrrreeee!

I think it takes a very special person to stick with a struggling, starving musician. Support comes in many different ways. An understanding wife is necessary, but her having patience may be even more important, especially during those times when she just don't understand us steel pickers!
Of course, those who know my wife knows that she can stand toe to toe and talk steel guitar with the best of them! (Maybe that's a side benefit from her being married to a steel picker for so long!)
"Thanks Honey! Now, can I have some money to buy a new....."

Dave

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 16 Jan 2002 2:51 pm

As my friend Bobbe Seymour once said, "The only GOOD YEARS we had together were the ones we had on our car. LOL

I had 29 happy years with Glenda and was working on 30 when she passed away...

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 16 Jan 2002 3:40 pm

..I waited until I was a couple weeks shy of 38 to get married, that was 11 years, 7 months, 27 days, 8 hours and 37 minutes ago..

..still married to the same one, have 2 lovely young daughters..

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 16 Jan 2002 5:53 pm

I really like being married to younger girls though, I can get the senior discount at Shoney's and they can get the childrens discount. Saves a lot of money! Went in with my latest sweetie and I ordered coffee and she just ordered a glass of wah-wah and the free sucker.
My last girlfriend was still in the fifth grade,she was from here in Tennessee,she was 33. Her father was a senior,same school. He met his wife at a family reunion. I have socks older than any of my wives! Guess it's time to change those too.
At least my latest and I have a lot in common. She makes a lot of money and I spend a lot of money. Is this ever a switch! I can hardly wait 'till she's old enough to get into the clubs to see me play.

Bobbe, "Rediculouis" Seymour

Stella flat top, Premier reverb, Harmony Soverien Dobro- conversion,
Vitoski volume ped.
DeArmond Vol. ped.
Fuzzy Steel guitar
Free:John Pearce strings
Elcar Trailer (27'no air cond.)
'71 Buick 225 electra
part interest in a doughnut shoppe
2 "Got steel" T-shirts
Bogan Challenger P.A. set (50 watts)
Silvertone 3 string banjo
2 dogs,9 cats, and I still have that partridge, sold the pear tree.

Robert Thomas · Post by **Robert Thomas** » 16 Jan 2002 6:08 pm

Been married to the same gal for almost 47 years. She gave me 5 wonderfurl kids. 3 boys and 2 girls. Our kids gave us 12 grand kids. My quiver is full. My wife thinks I am great and that my playing is great. I could just play for her alone and she would very happy. I used music to supplement my fulltime job to provide for our family growing up. My wife has been so supportive I feel like I have been blessed with a real angel. I wish you could all say the same. I think our priorities are real important in our happiness in life. I feel some of mine have been right. By the way I love to play beautiful music on the steel guitar. It is one of the most satisfying things after sex there is.

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 16 Jan 2002 6:53 pm

This is what we all should have. I envy you Robert. This bliss seems to elude a lot of us.I'm going to give my "all" once more and see if I can find it myself. Someone my own age you ask? No, they are all dead!

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 16 Jan 2002 8:15 pm

By the way I love to play beautiful music on the steel guitar. It is one of the most satisfying things after sex there is.

..a lot of people just smoke a cigarette..must be a lap steel..

..Bobbe, it's like looking for your keys, they're always in the last place you look..so stop looking..

Leonard G. Robertson · Post by **Leonard G. Robertson** » 16 Jan 2002 9:10 pm

Two hookers were talking and one asked "do you smoke after sex?" The other replied " I never looked to see".

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 16 Jan 2002 9:26 pm

Pat, so very much truth to your last post!
You are very right, as ever.
Leonard, she does not smoke after sex, she plays steel. Sort of a "laid" back style I think. (I can't remember)