UK
TELEGRAPH -- April 1 -- If you want to know the secrets of a long and
happy marriage, ask Gran. Jennie Hawthorne is the
88-year-old author of a new book on finding the right partner called
Meet Your Match. Jennie's mission is to revive the troubled
institution of marriage. She and her ex-squadron leader husband have
notched up 65 years with 7 children. Has she ever considered
divorce? "Divorce, never! But murder, often." When reading
recent statistics that show the suicide rate among young men to be the
highest ever, Jennie, a financial services expert, decided that divorce
and loneliness were the most pressing issues in modern life. Men don't
cope well on their own, so she wants to help them (and women, too) find
the right partners - and stick with them. "Girls these days push to get
on, but young men don't seem to know where they are going," she
observes. Her precepts for long-term happiness include putting
more emphasis on common interests, less on looks and passion; offering
more compliments, less brutal honesty; showing more self-knowledge,
less impatience. Surprisingly, her dating book advocates
old-fashioned morality in a contemporary setting. Escort agencies,
speed-dating, agencies specialising in vegetarians, the protocol of
internet dating: she describes them all with gusto. FULL ARTICLE @ UK TELEGRAPH

Mark Brooks: This isn't an april fools posting. However, I couldn't find Jennie's book on Amazon yet; just 14 of her other books.