And in keeping with webwench's biker analogy, you want to ask yourself "do you think this women is just along for the thrill ride, or will she stick with you and support you when you hit a rough patch?" Whether you are a biker or not, we all hit "rough patches" in one way or another. I hit one. here in Oklahoma it was called the "oil bust of 1982." Many lost capital and were additionally left with debt. I guess I was one of the lucky ones. I only lost income. You find out a lot about people in times like these. My (then) wife bailed out. A little less than a year later, I met someone who said "I'll do this and you do that, and we'll put things back together." Guess what? We put things back together, and in about 3X better shape than ever before, in just a few years. 22 years later, and we're still together, and still working together to continue to put things back to 4X , 5X, and beyond what they were before the "oil bust." And, it's going that way.

Let me put this another way. Put on your Armani suit, fire up the SL 600, pick her up and go to a 6 star restaurant and a Broadway play, an then take her back to your estate for cocktails, and I think we all know how it is going to end! But put on your good jeans, dress "T" and sports jacket, fire up your Ford truck, pick her up for a dinner at Chillis and a movie, and take her back to your condo for beers. Now THAT'S the test!

Thanks,
Richard