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It is great isn't it. A long marriage. The benefits are inestimatible. We laugh at something funny without having to say what it is because we have been laughing at the same things for forty years. We finish each others sentences and sometimes one word can convey a whole conversation because we have the same history. When I "forget something, he remembers. When we both forget, we howl with laughter. We can make decisions alone knowing in our bones what the other person would say. There are no secrets, no pretense, no fights or even spats. Our only abiding difference is clothing and baseball. I love both and he would wear a sweat suit every day happily and wouldn't go to a baseball game unless I insisted. So we compromise and I buy alot of clothes and he goes to a few games."

Yours is the stuff of marriage. I tend to forget that: wives don't. While life serves up its share of challenges, I always know I have someone to turn too. As do you.

Well, we all agree on marriage. And someone mentioned the schools. They really distress me. My daughters were coddled and taught their "feelings" were of primary importance. That always rankled me, I thought their grades and standing in class was more important. But the boys, the grandsons, I am truly worried about what is going on with them. They are such wonderful boys and I want them to be encouraged to play sports, to win, to beat up guys who try to bully them, to learn to be proud of their ability, to want to be in charge and to learn to curb their natural tendancies to be boys and learn to be men. I don't see that happening at school. The education system has been taken over by mediocre women with a lack of ability to be doing something better and they are mad as hell at the men who do better things so they are crippling the boys. It sickens me. I do believe behind it all is a revolutinary movement to weaken this country, sounds paranoid but that is what I think. The only answer I can see is to have men run all boys schools and try to weed out the pedophiles who will gravitate toward such place. and put the girls in girls schools run by middle age moms who have stayed at home and know what is important to women. Teach them what they need to know but quit telling them men are the enemy.