At the age of twenty-five I met a gorgeous young woman and became devoted to her. She was sixteen. I was not old enough to know that this was a poor choice for me. We were first good friends and it was not for five years that we became lovers. I worshipped her and it did not seem relevant to me that she did not want children and was not domestically inclined.

We were married when she was twenty-six and I was thirty-five. She still did not want children and became almost hysterical in her opposition when I even tried to discuss having a family. She loathed cooking or entertaining and was a hopeless housekeeper. Indeed she amassed unbelievable collections of all kinds of things: old clothes, very old shoes, margerine cartons etc. When we parted I found many frostburned cuts of meat and vegetables in the freezer, which she had collected and were unused. I thought it would be ok for her to continue work and to raise a family. My relatives did this and had no problem. Our family doctor said she would change. She did not change her attitude in the slightest.

We remained married for thirty years. We started a business together, which became successful. Eventually my wife got interested in other hobbies and people outside our home and business. When I was away she would be out following her own interests. We grew apart, not having any children at home to keep her occupied. Very often she was not there at weekends and sometimes not in the evenings, as she enjoyed evening classes. I spent more time at our factory and enjoyed the company of one of our employees.

The employee left and sued me and our Company. My wife left me and sued me for divorce. I lost more than half of all I had worked for during the past forty years.

After the divorce I was lonely and decided to look for a new female companion, after my wounds had healed somewhat. I must have been mad .. What would an intelligent, well-educated, sexy, twenty-something woman see in a sixty-seven year old! Well, makes no difference now, but it turned out she thought I had some money. After a short time she sued me for assault and accused me of misusing her in various ways.

This last episode cost me my home, car and part of my meager pension. In my experience women are faithless, offer no commitment to marriage and are after nothing but a "free lunch".