But for a LOVER, I wiil keep cruising the nursing homes.

Thank goodness I don't have any sons, I can date who ever I want and don't have to worry 'bout getting confused! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Good women, like fine wine, improve with age.

.........so does concrete.

Good women, like fine wine, improve with age. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

.........so does concrete.

WAT

We are doing pretty well in Recovery but I am still a bit haunted by the age difference. All of his friends are in their late 20's and she will be 50 in 3 years.

I told her if she would have left the family for him, about the time she hit 50 he would be 32 and he would have woken up one day and said to himself, "What am I doing with someone old enough to be my mother"? My FWW dissagrees with me on that point, since she states he really fell in love with her for real.

Many species in the animal kingdom mate for life. The wolf for instance does NOT go looking for a younger wolf who is still capable of breeding once his MRS has passed that age.

"Gibbon apes, wolves, termites, coyotes, barn owls, beavers, bald eagles, golden eagles, condors, swans, brolga cranes, French angel fish, sandhill cranes, pigeons, prions (a seabird), red-tailed hawks, anglerfish, ospreys, prairie voles (a rodent), and black vultures — are a few that mate for life.

Of course, it depends on what you mean by "mate for life." These creatures do mate for life in the social sense of living together in pairs but they rarely stay strictly faithful. About 90 percent of the 9,700 bird species pair, mate, and raise chicks together — some returning together to the same nest site year after year. Males, however, often raise other males’ offspring unknowingly. DNA testing reveals that the social-pair male did not father 10, 20, and sometimes 40 percent of the chicks.

Black vultures, though, discourage infidelity. All nearby vultures attack any vulture caught philandering.

Only about 3 percent of the 4,000 mammal species are monogamous (and Homo sapiens isn’t one of them). Beavers, otters, bats, wolves, some foxes, a few hoofed animals, and some primates live together in social pairs but dally sexually much as birds do.

Wolves, for example, are generally monogamous but also breed polygamously if the male is unrelated to the female and prey is plentiful. Moreover, they sometimes have more than one mate in a lifetime, says Dan Stahler, biologist at the Yellowstone Gray Wolf Restoration Program run by the National Park Service. This happens "if one mate dies, gets kicked out of the pack, or is physically unable to breed due to injury, illness, etc."

One species is absolutely monogamous. In the black darkness of the deep sea, the tiny male anglerfish (perhaps one tenth the female’s size) detects and follows the scent trail of a female of his own species. Once found, he bites his chosen one and hangs on. His skin fuses to hers, their bodies grow together (he gets his food through a common blood supply and becomes essentially a sperm producing organ). They mate for life — a short life for the male."

Black vultures, though, discourage infidelity. All nearby vultures attack any vulture caught philandering.

Ya, and why won't that darn male angler fish just go out and get a JOB?!?