I can see a saleswoman coming over to the house and showing a circle of women toys they could purchase. In high school, the girls in my drama class had to show everyone if they got a cute new pair of panties.
200 years ago, people didn't regularly live much longer than forty or fifty years. If you were over the hill, the odds were good that you were buried in a plot on the other side.
Unless the person that you meet is wearing colored bandanas in their jeans pockets, you can't tell what they're into. If they are wearing colored bandanas in their pockets, be prepared to hear things you might not want to.
Marriage doesn't end in a second. Mine ended because my wife was too critical. Once I was trying to avoid having an argument with her and unleashing all of the nasty comments I had saved up, and I screamed. She came rushing in, thinking I had been mortally wounded. All that had really happened was that I had been mentally crushed under the weight of not wanting to comment on her attitudes and hear her rebuke me. Do you think that a moment like that can come about without a set pattern of behavior beforehand?
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