Introduction and Personal Journey

farmer wants a wife just got the cows fed got the four-wheeler sitting there sitting here in my beautiful outdoor kitchen on 150 acre beautiful Farm here in the foothills of the blidge mountains of North Carolina and I am a divorce I am a farmer I started this operation about eight years ago maybe nine years ago I had a dream of building my own first generation farm and that dream has come to fruition I had that dream with my former spouse and we are now separated I'm not really going to go into detail about why she and I are separated but I am going to go into detail about a few things that I think are important now first of all let's start with should you get married in the first place I I'm a military veteran I'm a college graduate I started building this Farm in my mid-30s I didn't get married until I was 35 so the relationship that I established with my former spouse started when when I was about 32 I went out and I had fun and I djed and I sang I played music I was in bands and I enjoyed that life I really enjoyed that life I was an outgoing outspoken person that really loved to have fun but I felt a calling back to the land and a calling back to the soil and on my very first date and I think you guys the first thing we need to establish here is that on your very first encounter with anyone whom you might consider one day being your partner being your spouse I think you need to be absolutely wholeheartedly open with that person and on my very very first date with my former spouse I told her I want to move back to the country I want to get closer to my parents who live about 15 minutes that way and 15 minutes that way they are separated also they've been divorced for gosh 20 plus years so I think it's important that you set those boundaries or guidelines or expectations on your very first date on your very first encounter they need to know who you are now do I consider myself the typical farmer guy what you guys would think of the old bibbed overall kind of country old bo talk like right here do I consider myself that person I think that there is a stigma out there that farmers and country folks are somehow beneath uh city Folk and I think a lot of folks write farmers and Country folk rural folk off as being hay seeds and country people that simply have no manners or have no class or have no education or have no cth or carry themselves funny or they find Value in things that are different than what you might find Value in and I do think that blue…