MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW of OVER THE HILL AND BETWEEN THE SHEETS

OVER THE HILL AND BETWEEN THE SHEETS
Sex, Love, and Lust, in Middle Age
Edited by Gail Belsky C 2007

I recommends this anthology of first person essays written by middle of the life and elder writers who write convincingly of the changes in their romances, including those who say sex isn't important at all, those who report the effects of later day inventions such as the Pump and Viagra.

But this book brings up a subject that I've been wondering about for some time.

SHOULD PEOPLE'S EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT THEY DESERVE IN LOVE LOWER simply because of age?

If you get the idea that Missy herself had been so advised, you are RIGHT!

A few months ago a neighbor-friend went on a verbal rampage and said, "At your age, you should be satisfied to be a man's mistress, or to have affairs (sex), without any expectations of marriage."

This man had been married late in life for his generation (in his forties) and had his first child at near fifty. His wife had died suddenly less than a year before and he was clearly devoted to her. He was visiting her grave twice a week and burning memorial candles constantly. I understand. His wife had made a lot of money working for an attorney, way too much to have been the attorney's MAID. Do you understand?

SHOULD PEOPLE'S EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT THEY DESERVE IN LOVE LOWER simply because of age?