Mrs Twiddle (not your real name I suspect!

) - thank you for your kind post.

Marriages are tricky things, and sometimes we do 'lump along' with partners we want to change in many ways, and yet, as was said earlier, men are not too up for change, overall, and it is, so often, us women who do the adapting (though of course that promptly makes me think of some husbands who dance attendence on their demanding wives all their lives!!!).

But none of us are perfect, and marriage is the rough with the smooth, better and worse, etc etc, and all those years together are worth far, far more than any of the bumpiness, if we can jsut stick it out, and get through to the sunny times again.

Julie