Are Relationships Just a Chick Thing?

Looking at data on who goes to which sites on the internet, an interesting and not really surprising thing pops up in the over 55 age group.

If you start with people who visit popular sites that deal with relationships and see what else they are likely to look at, there is a strong split between men and women. The women tend to head for other sites about family, relationships, and investments. The mean tend go next to sites on cars, investments, and porn.

Not surprising perhaps, but what does it say about the chances for great relationships occurring between those men and women? Isn't there a song that says something about reading the news and it's all been bad?

Am I missing something here? Or, is the "war between men and women" satirized by James Thurber just dragging on?

$4 Gas and Other Sorrows

$4 gas is bad enough, but the strains that it can put on an otherwise shaky or just good enough relationship are the whipped cream and cherry on top.


If you have been thinking that putting some attention on your relationships, the economic situation should be giving you a boost. Especially for us older folks who either are or soon will be on fixed incomes, the inflation or interest-rate rise and recession that the governments of the world are facing will impact us a lot.


Working together gets harder and more important in these situations.

How's The Viagra Working?

How's the Viagra working for building a better relationship? The women in the ads look like the one thing that they were missing from their partner was a hard penis. Is that really true?


I have never heard, nor have I heard of, a woman complaining about how her male partner just isn't hard enough for her to be happy. I have heard and heard about, over and over, things about communication, being understood, having undivided attention, etc.


There has been some rattling around on the net lately about how curing erectile dysfunction can actually put new pressure on the relationship because what wasn't a problem before or for a while (physical intimacy/sex) now becomes an issue. And the issue isn't whether he has a hard penis to insert where ever he can, whenever he can, however he wants to. In fact, that may have been a problem in the first place.


Apparently, there isn't a way around the relationship thing. Even with drugs that are only a tiny bit short of priapism.


Get the relationship right and the Viagra, Cialis, or Levitra will be great too. Just be sure to apply the attention, the cures, or whatever you do, in that order.


You do have to turn on the radio before you can tune in the channel and listen to the music.

Are We Just Getting Tired In Our Relationships?

Sometimes I wonder if many relationship problems that come along with getting older aren't an outgrowth of just getting weary.


I vividly remember watching a friend wrestle for the state championship. In the last 30 seconds of the last round it was tied and he and the other wrestler went round and round and round and finally Danny just stopped going around. The other guy won.


Later I asked him if he just got tired of the whole thing and he said "yeah".


I suspect that one of the risks of getting older is that we may just decide that we've been around this this circle enough and the heck with it. I know that I find myself getting more tempted all the time.




I think it's a big mistake. After all, it aint over til its over, so we better play on.

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