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Long, long ago, in stern patriarchal times, when women went about in long skirts, people rode to their business on horseback or in carriages and all food was organic because you had to grow it yourself, life was harder. There were no single-mother benefits, no maternity payments, no pension savings, no decent medicine and none of the many other pleasant features of modern life. People had to survive, and together that was far easier than apart. To provide at least some sort of social guarantee,

It was love at first sight. They only had to see each other and the world took on entirely different shades, gained colour and meaning... And it all happened in a canteen.

I do not know whether he really was that famous, but to her he was a star, the sun without which everything alive on earth would die. And to him she was the earth that the sunlight warms — otherwise, what would be the point of shining? And it was also a misalliance.

Who do you think should make the first step to start a relationship? In our culture it is customary for it to be the man. At least, that is what the overwhelming majority of women think. Yet many men, as surveys show, would like the woman to make the first step. And many are also convinced that in fact it is the woman who makes the first step, but in such a way that it looks as though the man is making it. The "experts" say that she makes this first step with her body, or with her eyes, or with