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Agree 100%, however I also must say I have never met any female of my age group who even remotely gives me such confidence in them.

If I might ask, what is your age group? Both my wife and I were married once before, before we met. Both of our prior marriages failed in large part due to the juvenile behavior and expectations on all fronts.

When we met, she was 31 and I was 27, and we were both looking desperately for someone to grow up, and grow old with. Had we met 4 or 5 years earlier, we probably wouldn't have worked out, ourselves.

Speaking solely for myself, I know that at 25 I was nothing more than an adolescent who shaved more often. She recounts her younger days similarly.

Sometime around the middle of the last century, the worst of all possible combinations arose. Children matured physically at an ever decreasing age, and matured mentally and emotionally at an increasing age.

Speaking solely for myself, I know that at 25 I was nothing more than an adolescent who shaved more often. She recounts her younger days similarly.

Sometime around the middle of the last century, the worst of all possible combinations arose. Children matured physically at an ever decreasing age, and matured mentally and emotionally at an increasing age.

A good point in itself. I'd say before World War I, people tended to mature a lot quicker then that do now. By the time you were 13 or 14, maybe just a tad bit later, you basically assumed adult resposibilities, if your family needed money, you got a full time job and so on. I talked to one lady where her great-grandmother was 14 when she married her husband and he was like 28, 30 or so. Of course, even then people did get married at an earlier age although age differences were not as huge as the example given above.

It seems like people mature a lot slower, generally, the repsonsibilities that a 14 year old would have 100 years ago would be greater than an 18 year or or even 21+ year old today. In today's world, I don't advocate young marriage like that, heck, it would be like giving a 16 year old the keys to a Ferrari. B-) Still, it is an interesting observation how society has changed that much.