on romance

in a conversation about marriage one day, one of my guys mentioned that he would like to be married in 7 years, when he is well established and able to support a family. although he felt being able to support a family comfortably was very important, he did regret however that he would be 37 at that time and thus that would give him only 3 years to be romantic with his wife. when i asked him why only 3 years (after all, you can be romantic the your whole life, right?), he said, 'well, you can't be romantic after 40, because by then you're grown up and you can't be acting like that anymore.' 

:)