Goodbye, Holland

BigBee

New member
Allie,<br>
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I think you should entitle your book "Goodbye, Holland".
 The first chapter would be the Holland story and the last
chapter or epilogue would be what you have written here.  Just
my two cents worth....and when (not if) you get published, I'll
preorder a copy.
 

Faust

New member
Anyone wanna explain this to me? I'm borderline brain dead now due to my birthday celebration last night. It looked real nice, and I see the metaphors/analogies, but just a quick explanation would be great. Good goin Alliesan.
 

Allie

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Thank you for all the compliments. It means a lot.

I did think about using this in my book, but "Welcome to Holland" applies very little to a spouse. You don't show up in Holland against your will. You meet someone, plan on going to Italy, and then they tell you they live in Holland, and can't leave. You either choose to find another person to go to Italy with or go to Holland, but you do choose. It's more a question of "I hate Holland, but I love you"
 
Allie, I still think it applies to a spouse. You don't always choose who you fall in love with. If you did most of us CFers wouldn't have significant others. It was my magical powers of seduction that got my husband. HEHE

Emilee
 

anonymous

New member
Yup,
It was sort of like Rip said to me one summer day (right after I said something about loving him and the summer and hating the winter), "You know there's something I've got to tell you -- I live in a very small town in Alaska." To which I responded "Do you have to? Can't you move here?". To which he responded "I can't move here. I have to live there."

3 months later where am I? You know. Deeply in love and snuggling with my hon. Holed up for the winter in a very small town in Alaska.....

Since the woman who introduced us had actual just moved down from Alaska with her dogs this analogy is not as far fetched as it first sounds....
 

LisaV

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whoops, that last anon was me (obviously wth reference to Rip).

Also I don't know about any other spouses, but I did feel like I had a lot of choice about whether to marry or not. Rip wasn't the first man I had fallen in love with and there was at least one before that I had chose to drive away from. (The saying "love is not enough" sometimes really applies, you know.)

Rip I loved with all my heart AND I wanted to marry.
 

Allie

New member
I agree, I had a choice to marry Ry and go with him, or find a comfortable life. It was just an arguement of passion vs safety. Some people choose safety.
 

Faust

New member
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Allie</b></i>

Thank you for all the compliments. It means a lot.



I did think about using this in my book, but "Welcome to Holland" applies very little to a spouse. You don't show up in Holland against your will. You meet someone, plan on going to Italy, and then they tell you they live in Holland, and can't leave. You either choose to find another person to go to Italy with or go to Holland, but you do choose. It's more a question of "I hate Holland, but I love you"</end quote></div>



AH-SO!
 

Sunnie

New member
That was beautifully written. Only someone who has been there can understand all the emotions behind it. I understand that the pain of leaving "Holland" will always be there. Hopefully, though you have learned that you had a love and a marriage that quite a few people these days only dream about. He will always be in your heart and your daughter's heart.
 

Scarlett81

New member
Thankyou so much for sharing that. As everyone said, it was beautiful. It's nice to see you around here more! Keep posting-this is what I come here for.
 

Allie

New member
Christian, you just warmed my heart x1000. Thanks <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

debs2girls

New member
Allie, that was beautiful. I will also pre-order my copy of your
book. You are one of the VERY FEW people I come here
specifically to read their posts.<br>
Keep up the great work.
 
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