<p>My daughter was not a born runner, she was a born swimmer but she now runs and it helps her tremendously. Slight back problem went away physically. She participates in a lot of 5K run. Second kid is also going to do something similar.</p>
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<p>And there we have a sentence that brings happiness to both of us, for entirely different reasons. </p>
<p>You say “People put their lives, as the defining limit of others’ lives, as if their lives are the arbiters of what other people do. Sorry, your life is not someone else’s and someone is not acting based on what you do in your life.”</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, you once said that you can’t imagine yourself in a gay relationship, and then used that as the basis for some backward political view on gay marriage. I’m straight, but can imagine myself in a gay relationship; it’s not an amazing feat. </p>
<p>If it wasn’t you who said it, I apologize. If you did say it, hmmm. </p>
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TBH with you, the above comment sounds like an oxymoron. SBs who are used to private travel would not be an SB in the first place unless the family fell out of money.
I know hedge fund guy who uses private jet often with his family, I seriously doubt that his girl will be a SB. My guess is that the SBs are most likely in much lower SES class and not used to travel got into Princeton on financial aid if you reread the original article.</p>
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<p>As for access to an airplane, that is the proper phrasing because the plane would have had to be to sent to pick us up. It was not parked at the local airport.</p>
<p>And for the record, I fly jets and turboprops.</p>
<p>Lucky you! I wished my Dad liked airplanes. He hates them and would not let me fly, as a little kid and I had to wait till high school. Kind of hard not to blame him though because he had the unfortunate position of being in two near crashes: a flight that my mom and he missed by less than 5 minutes (they got there when it is was pushing back) crashed and killed a lot of people. Yikes. And then 10 years or so later, a plane had an engine fire and failure on takeoff, and they barely cleared a hill.</p>
<p>I got lucky though because one of my Dad’s business partners had a private plane and one day called and told me not to tell my Dad and he took me up flying. My Dad was not happy with him when he found out I went to have lunch hundreds of miles aways. But, when he saw my thrill with it, he did not say a thing when I took his credit card and charged flying lessons. </p>
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That would be true of he went several days without running, which he rarely does,unless he is injured!</p>
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You seem to be talking in semantics. Most everyone “screens” at some level, for compatibility in a mate. Its called dating. Your description seems like the 10 minute date table. Throw out a few questions- they “fail”? Move on to the next table. Thats one way of getting to know someone, but its not the norm. In the dating world (not your beloved SD/sb world) there may be some deal breakers and some things that are less important. For me, someone had to be smart, funny (witty/clever) and a non smoker. Those were my deal breakers. POlitics was less important, though I have my convictions. If it was a deal breaker, I’d not be married to my DH, who, as it happens, has changed his political beliefs significantly during the course of our marriage. </p>
<p>Please stop claiming posters cannot know or understand things that you then go on to “explain” that are pretty obvious. Posters get that a SD doesnt likely want a bimbo, but someone who is presentable in his social circles He wants to be proud of her, not embarrassed by her. Thats not the issue here.</p>
<p>I will be meeting up with a bunch of women runners (including MomofWildChild) in Toronto in a few weeks. We will all run either a marathon, half marathon, or 5K. And spend the rest of the weekend partying! 
My life is definitely richer due to running, as slow as I am (13 minutes per mile).</p>
<p>I haven’t been able to read the whole thread yet because I got here late. But I’m confused: why is there one poster here presenting himself as THE AUTHORITY on SDs and SBs, making generalizations right and left on how they all think and behave, on the basis of knowing a few through his work environment? Did I miss somethng?</p>
<p>My FIL is a born runner, and has run (and finished) 90+ marathons. As he says, back in the early days, nobody knew that you weren’t supposed to run them all the time </p>
<p>My wife has run 20+ marathons, but health issues have conspired to reduce her speed. She still shuffles along (as she puts it, she is in danger of getting hit by a parked car). </p>
<p>My joints can’t take running, but I find an elliptical has much of the same benefits, except that you can’t do it outside. There are also benefits to free weights, which I really enjoy, in a way that I can’t say I enjoy any cardio workout. </p>
<p>I look considerably older than my wife, and am a few years older, but she doesn’t seem to mind. </p>
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<p>My DH went downstairs at the hotel where we were staying to grab a table for breakfast before it got crowded and we had to wait. When I approached the hostess stand I said “I believe my husband has a table already.” She said, “Oh, the older gentleman?” Confused, I said, “No, he’s wearing a blue striped shirt.” She responded, “yes, that’s him. He’s seated by the window.” DH is only 9 months older than I. I thought he would think that was kind of funny, but he was actually very upset by that. I regretted telling him.</p>
<p>Good for your wife, IxnayBob! I agree about the weights. After I injured myself in February (due to running too many miles in one week on a treadmill), the physical therapist told me I needed to strengthen my muscles and hips to avoid doing it again. So I joined a CrossFit gym, where I feel old and unathletic, but I’m doing it, at least! I run three times a week and go to CrossFit twice a week. It helps me have the energy to deal with my ill son’s needs.</p>
<p>We seem to be turning the SD thread into the exercise and wellness thread!</p>
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<p>You are making my point again about superimposing your standards of what is a lot. </p>
<p>Early in this thread, I explained that SBs are SBs for one main reason, they want more, whatever that more is. There are moneyed SBs (have met a few) who want even more stuff. It is relative. The SD she chooses provides her more than her Dad or family does. It is the want of the additional opportunities that the SD provides that determines who a SB chooses.</p>
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<p>I do not get your point you of using one girl who mitt not be an SB to generalize about all rich girls. Not everyone is like you and the people you know.</p>
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<p>This isn’t the exercise and wellness thread?!?! Oops! </p>
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<p>The thread was much more entertaining when sorghum wanted to be called a creepy old fart! ;)</p>
<p>My husband used to hang around with a guy in his 40s and when my husband told him his age he was stunned, he thought my husband was the same as him. This is a few years back. Recently, he told his 40 something boss his age and the guy also was stunned. Ok, maybe he doesn’t look as young as he used to look, neither do I, the commute is hard. Runner is very fit, not Navy seal kind of body but in general pretty slim.</p>
<p>Nah, this thread is 55 year old women want to be SBs, hence the running. :)) </p>
<p>Nah, I could never in a million years sell my soul and be a kept woman. Makes me want to wash my hands as I type it.</p>
<p>" The above said, I understand your operating premise that if you cannot see yourself doing something, then you use that as a limit for others. I disagree with that approach, but I respect that it must work for you in your life. It would not work for me in my life though for I cannot fathom judging what you do based on what I do and believe. I do not even get the logic. But, it seems to work for you."</p>
<p>Funny how that doesn’t apply to someone being gay. You seem to be able to understand the SB/SD paid relationship, but you can’t understand a gay relationship. It’s funny how you’re live/and-let-live some of the time. </p>
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<p>If you’re referring to Robert Chambers, he wasn’t actually from a family with money. As far as I recall, his mother was working as a maid and he attended prep schools on scholarship. Incidentally, the SES gap between him and his mostly wealthy classmates was cited as a reason by some reporters as a factor in his anti-social behavior which got him into academic and legal trouble in prep school and college(booted out of BU after one semester). All that seemed to set the stage for his murdering Jennifer Levin back in an August day in 1986. </p>