[Southflanknorthpawsis]

There is more than one reason why men in their forties often marry women twenty years younger than them--middle aged women often have an unbearable chip on their shoulder. Who would want to spend the rest of their life with someone like that?

Quite an alarming thought process coming from a pastor's daughter.........quite alarming.

A good many men that marry younger women leave a wife and children in ruin. It has more to do with selfishness than anything else.

I wouldn't know, I've been married to the same man since I was 21 years old, but my experience tells me that women with your pestering nature are often the first ones left on the chopping block. At the rate you're going, you may never get far enough to find out

[Iwo Jima]

Isn't there a limit on how many times you can proclaim that you are leaving FR and come back? I thought that there was a three strikes and you're out policy. Maybe we need one.

[Jefferson Adams]

Quite an alarming thought process coming from a pastor's daughter.........quite alarming.

Truth is like that for those who aren't familiar with it or who fear it. As someone who recently married a woman in her forties, I can tell you that FIJC is quite correct in her assessment of many middle-aged women - they don't just have chips on their shoulders, most of them are damaged goods.

My wife thinks and acts like she's still in her 20's - except for her Christian maturity, which, even though she's only known the Lord for about 5 years, is quite beyond most of the people here on FR. She's innocent, vibrant, and undamaged - and wise in the ways of God, because she loves Him so completely. The odds of finding someone like her, in their forties, amongst the throngs of damaged know-it-all frumpets is slim to none - which is precisely why I know that she was given to me by the One who made her :)