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Do you think you face difficulties because of the age gap?

Again, nothing really serious, especially because we knew from the start we'd no intention of starting a family.

My husband's mother, when we first got together, was most amusing.

She said: "Now, you'll have to be patient with Mary, because she'll be going through the menopause soon," which I found hilarious as I was only 36. But seriously, a lot of our early exchanges progressed along the lines of: him - "How do you know that?" me - "Because I was alive then."

Is monogamy dead?

A look at the influence of 'non-connected sex,'

By Brian Alexander

MSNBC

Updated: 12:06 a.m. ET Sept. 7, 2005

At the recent World Congress of Sexology in Montreal, noted sociologist Pepper Schwartz, a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, made a startling argument.

“There is every reason to believe,” she said, “that non-monogamy will become part of the American sexual cycle.”

More sex without strings

In the past, Schwartz argued, “women were the moral gatekeepers.” They insisted on monogamy, established it as an ideal, and tried to enforce it. Now, though, about one-quarter of women ages 18 to 24 are boinking more than one guy at any given time, according to a University of North Carolina study. About one-quarter of high school kids have what Schwartz politely termed “non-connected sex” but the rest of us have been calling “hooking up,” and these quickie sex exchanges are often initiated by the girls.