So you’re guy, and you’re getting on in years, and health problems are starting to affect your life. What kind of wife do you hope you have? Your choices are:
1.Hillary…ambitious, driven career woman who seems perfectly happy not to be around you, whom you have publicly embarassed, and who is not overly domestic. Loves you, but knows your weak points.
Nancy…high-energy, high-maintenance, but adores you down to the ground. Can’t take her eyes off you, you are her god. Can’t imagine her life without you…in fact, you worry how she’ll fare when you are gone. Wants nothing more than to make you happy, and will move heaven and earth to protect you.
Barbara…practical, sensible, comfortable…and she thinks you’re just wonderful. Feels as confident in the kitchen as on the talk show circuit. Doesn’t let much faze her. You know you won’t have to worry about her after you’re gone because she has surrounded you both with a loving wall of family. Giggles a lot, and never lets you forget she adores you, but expects good behavior.
So put aside any preferences for the physical package. Just based on personality and temperment, who would you want to spend your declining years with?
What spooje said. If we leave my own moral standing out of it, what’s the downside of being married to an intelligent, ambitious, independent, 21st-century-kinda-woman?
Why can’t Roslyn “The Steel Magnolia” Carter get in on this? I’d pick her over Hillary, Barbara or Nancy, and I wouldn’t complain if she looked like either Hilary Duff or Lindsey Lohan.
She’s old and grandmotherly to be sure, but is that really so unattractive if you’re a “guy, and you’re getting on in years, and health problems are starting to affect your life?”
Those were the guidelines…
I knew I couldn’t get guys to ignore the physical and just concentrate on the attributes that will serve you best in your declining years! Can you really see a #1 devoting all her time and energy to making sure you are fed, clean and safe if you should fall victim to a debilitating disease? Does what she looks like matter more than how much she loves you? (Remember, in this scenario, you don’t look like Pierce Brosnan…more Walter Matthau).
So if we added a
4. Rosalyn…Competent, steely, full of faith and nobody’s fool. She’s made a life of her own, with you by her side…not joined at the hip, but sharing everything. You rely of her guidance and insight, and she smiles every time you enter a room. And she gets your jokes. Nothing is too much to ask for her, and she isn’t beguiled by the bright lights of the big city…unless you are there with her.
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