Familiarity leads to predictability. Predictability leads to boredom. I’m sure it’s the same path travelled by thousands of other couples. Childre... come and free time goes. Promotions mean more work and less time. Stress saps energy. The great pendulum of life always extracts a payment for each advance until one day you wake up and find that the heart is full of love, but the passion for your love is gone. What is there left to do? I made the same decision that far too many men make. With. Poor Charlie could only think of one thing to say."Momma's gone to heaven."***"Hey, Chuck! Chuck! Charlie," called out a young man, well dressed, as if prepared for or returning from some special occasion.He approached another young man who was casually dressed, having gone nowhere, and anticipating no need to go anywhere, that there might be required formal attire. He turned in the hallway."Hey, Rob. What's up," Chuck asked his longtime friend."Oh nothing," he said as Chuck opened the door to. You should be the one making the decisions, and if your dad doesn’t understand that, then you shouldn’t be doing it. I learned these things too late, but I don’t blame my dad for that. Men say lots of things on moments like that, but you’re the one who decides which parts she should be listening to. I only understood this when I was talking with dad afterwards as she was writing these things down.[Here are my own thoughts after listening to Katy (not her real name, of course, but close. ”“I don’t think that we should use the credit card,” Margaret said. “They can be traced. And, Alexander still has the resources of his government.”Marja interrupted the conversation to point at two men who had just entered the bistro. They looked ominous with heavy trench coats and fedoras pulled down over their brows. They sat at a nearby table and began to argue about football. It would have been laughable if the girls weren’t so scared.Marja whispered something to Margaret. “She says that we.