Pat Robertson: “Awful-looking” women are ruining marriages

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41. +1. Or get sick, or take high intensity medicines that wreak havoc on one's looks, or

have an outdoor job where the weather has wreaked havoc on one's face, hair, hands etc. etc etc.

As one gets older, the realities of age and time mean that most of us are no longer models if we ever were.

In our household, it means we love each other despite the flaws because we know the road we've traveled and the miles have sometimes - many times - not been kind. Our physical appearance has become one of the last things that matter anymore because in the end, we're all going to simply look old and tired. If one has become so shallow that how your mate looks after 25 years of LIFE is damn important then I'd say those folks aren't trying very hard.

Teevee people have private trainers and plastic surgery. Unfortunately they skew a lot of people's understanding of what real living does to the rest of us.