[Redleg Duke]

I know the feeling. As a older teen and then in my 20s, I was continually told that I was too nice a guy. I was told that a woman wants to be smacked around to prove that the man cares.

This is why I didn't marry until nearly 30. I am alergic to idiots.

[djf]

I was very, very lucky with my wife. Drop dead gorgeous, always smiling and laughing, an excellent cook and housekeeper, (but I helped alot), she was due to inherit somewhere between 500K and a mill, I treated her like the most precious jewel I could find.

She could have had any of a thousand other guys if she wanted, what she saw in me I still don't understand.
And she passed quite young, at 41. I still cry.

Guess I was pretty spoiled.