[Riverman94610]

Its really a crapshoot.Right now I am so cynical about relationships its pathetic.
I teach in ghetto schools in my fair city and I observe the conversations going on between young black men and women.I will just sum it up by saying these conversations are not based on mutual respect and intellectual substance.
Then again,neither were mine in my high school days!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Being a man,I sympathized with my dad,a good hearted,kind man with a gentle soul.My mom was the hard driving aggressive sort and she thought she had married beneath her stature.

I've known some women like this. (My uncle married one -- same situation -- disdain from her, kindness from him.) Got to be heck for sons, and not a great experience for daughters either.