Guest, Rose Looney, who is both a mother and grandmother, feels the cultural slide began to happen when mothers went to work and no one was home to help with the homework and the general guidance of youngsters and teenagers.

Looney also feels that relationships between boys and girls has changed and it affects females more than men in a lot of ways. She suggests that if girls would take their time in dating, they would get to know the man behind the date. In this way, break-ups and divorce wouldn’t be as common and the stresses of single motherhood might be avoided.

She speaks with some authority. After losing her lifetime mate of fifty-six years, she reminisces with clarity about how he treated her, protected her and spent his life serving her just as she served him. 

Their devotion toward each other is symbolized in a Valentine card that Bill gave to her that she keeps on her bed and kisses every night.

“I still tell him that I love him and miss him,” she says. “It’s going to be a while before I can go to the places we used to go together.”

She gives singles advice that may seem simple, but can’t be argued with: “It’s love, you gotta love them with all your heart, put them first and respect them.

“He liked to travel. I had never done that. He enjoyed camping and I hadn’t experienced that before. I went for him - even with the worms and the bugs and even though I’m a city girl.”

Now, that’s love.