Why is it so hard for British men to show affection to the woman they love?
All right I am a different generation, but my girlfriend, who became by fiancé and then my wife 60 years ago, and I both loved to dance. Not the drop an ecstasy and jump up and down that is popular today but classical ballroom. Every weekend Saturday night we danced. But while we were still dating the pleasure started when I arrived to fetch her, I my Black tie dinner jacket and met her at the door in her ballgown or ballerina length gown. We held hands walking to the car, I opened the door and helped her in and once we were at the sports club were visiting and met our friends we spent the evening in one an other’s arm dancing, quickstep, waltz, rumba, tango cha cha. The final dance was usually called dancing cheek to cheek and that is what we did.
We could not afford much so we probably had a plate of chips and a couple of juices with water, It was as though we were not a couple but a single entity swaying and moving together, when we went walking we held hands, or walked with arms around each other and talked about our plans and our problems. We had our problems - everybody does but we worked them out together, as I type this I can still remember the perfume and see the smiles, music and laughter - I guess I was just one very lucky man.