Redefining Love and Desire For all of you critics our there worried about “GOOD WRITING SKILLS” please take some time and read some of the writings of Mark Twain, William Faulkner or John Steinbeck. All of these authors use misspelled words, improper grammar and questionable local colloquialisms in their writing to convey mood and realism. I am not putting myself in their class and not all of my writing errors are intentional but for those that are, I think I’m in pretty good company. What’s important is the STORY, please leave the structure and the grammar to the author or start criticizing “Tom Sawyer”, “Go Down Moses”, or “Of Mice and Men”. Dating? I am a 62 year old business man who works as a consultant for some major aerospace companies and my wife owns several small companies in the northeast. We have been married for twenty years and we dated for about ten years before that. We have four children from previous marriages, two of hers and two of mine. All of the kids are out of the house now and two of them have families of their own. My wife is 55 and a couple years ago she became very upset about what her age was doing to her body. She complained about gaining weight, her greying hair and, what I call, the smile lines around her eyes. When I tried to tell her that it was a normal condition of growing older, she snapped my head off. She told me that I was better looking now than when she married me and that all her friends thought the same way. She said that men look more distinguished with grey hair and that I wasn’t getting fat like she was. I told her that I was flattered that she and her friends thought that way but that age has taken its toll on me also. This really set her off. She called me a liar and accused me of lusting after her friends. …but everything was about to change
