Thank you all for the warm welcome and I appreciate the kind comments. Steve, I too am over the hill, but I do find it easier going downhill than uphill. It was Social Security that brought me to my position on marriage. Last year my wife started getting a $700 payment each month from Social Security based solely on being married to me. A glorious thing for us and we would hate to give it back, but there are a lot of poor older unmarried folks that need the money more than we do. It is hard for me to rationalize the fairness, justice, equality or morality in our wonderful government marriage benefit that is being subsidized by unmarried people.
