[HairOfTheDog]

Every time I read about couples like this I remember the little old ladies in the nursing homes I have visited who never had any children and have to rely on that lone nephew who lives 1,500 miles away for a family connection.

That is one of the most compelling reasons that has occurred to me when I mull over our options. Who will care when we are old? Is that enough reason to change my life now?

[Overtaxed]

But then again, children often dump ageing parents in a rest home and never visit.

[EternalVigilance]

Thank Sam and Rosie Gamgee. They had the happiest ending...and they were the future of Middle Earth!

Those poor bachelors, Bilbo and Frodo, who spent their whole lives serving the Ring of Power, sailed off into the West, never to be heard from again...

;-)