Sir, you are a brave man to admit to such a thing in public. I admire that.
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Speaking in a general sense now, as I approach middle age, I find a gentle misogyny creeping up on me.
I began as an innocent idealist of the usual Western stripe, believing in that hallowed myth of the inherent 'sugariness' and 'niceness' conferred by internal genitalia and (we hope) protruding mammary glands.
And now I ask myself, for whom was the institution of marriage created, if not for women by their doting male relatives? Indeed, the oldest profession seems often to be at least an honest one in comparison with many matrimonial contracts.
At the age of 40 a man is in his prime (if he can be bothered) and a woman well past hers.
Any presentable man with reasonable means and personality need not hitch his cart to some old nag, when the world abounds in eager fillies. Indeed in these happy days of women's liberation, he need not hitch it at all.
It is a sad, sad thing to see decent fellows raised in the code of gentlemanly behavior being harried and hectored by the over-weight, ill-groomed, foul-mouthed harridans well past their best-before dates, whose oft well-justified self-hatred they take pleasure in venting on the nearest and dearest male who infuriatingly refuses to age at a similar rate.
Oh yes, at their best, they are the best, and at their worst, the very worst.
PS:Don't be too hard on the lawyers, they did invent pre-nuptial contracts after all!
PPS: I am happily married to my first wife; a very fine woman and I expect, my last wife.
