Decades ago, I moved to what was one-time farmland, next to a mule farm. Over the years, tracts of land, sold off by my farmer neighbors, became subdivisions. The hay fields and mules were history. Couples moved into their McMansions. Many of the men were fat and ugly, but had pretty, young wives. Those women were smart. They picked some old bachelor with a good business or degree and zeroed in on him. Then they rehabbed the men, "setting a fire" under their husbands to take care of their bodies as well as their businesses and intellect. Surprisingly, a majority of the men slimmed down. In the olden days, as some call it, a woman "married up" to the man who would best care for her and their children. In my daughter's generation, the girls are getting degrees and their own careers. The young women don't feel that they have to marry to survive. The "boys" don't feel that they have to truly grow up and become men. Some do not even bother to get a career. They play their poke-mon and talk your ear off about Comic-con. Only fifty years ago (and decades before) men younger than these boy-men, reluctantly marched off to war and grew up too soon. Today's boy-men may never grow up. The women carry on. There is nobody to "set a fire" under these boys and the western world is poorer for it.
I myself, married for love and came into an inheritance years later. Kind of like a fairy tale, but that's not on topic.
Getting back to the discussion, younger women marrying George, Cliff and Uncle Phil aren't that far off.
*The Manitou is in and will take your calls now.
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seas286
8 years ago
TV shows seemed to always do this. On the Six Million Dollar Man, when they introduced Lindsay Wagner as Jaime the Bionic Woman, they said she and Steve (Lee Majors) were childhood sweethearts and he was a Senior when she was a Freshman in High School. In real life Lee Majors is 10 years older than Lindsay Wagner.
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