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The word beauty, much like the word love has many variations on a theme.

God made men and women, not men and almost men, or women and almost women.

Scientists tell us that it is the influence of estrogenic chemicals in the human growth and development which make women different from men. Perhaps, but without a softer side to humanity, our species would probably have gone extinct long ago in a flash of outlandish competition.

I've been married twice, and divorced trwice. The first time I did not understand hwat it means to cherish the softer side of humanity. Second wife got way more cherishing than the first, but that marriage also ended.

People grow apart because of circumstance. And some people separate because it is the bettere thing to do ... and I will not publicly go into that one any further.

What is to be cherished in a woman, by a man or men (as in fathers, grandfathers, husbands) is the very essence of what God women to be. Sadly, our modern age has coarsened women, diminished the worth of the softer side of humanity.

YOU are what God made you to be, and that is a beautiful thing regardless of the outward trappings. And as my wise Jungian Analyst Aunt once told me, "if you settle upon a life mate because she is beautiful and sexy, make sure that's as shallow as you intend to be, because as you grow older your own depth will extend and shallow will not suit you then. ... And it may be that she will grow deeper, faster than you will. It can get pretty lonely when your projections onto the other walk away leaving you only memories."