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October, 1948
separated from his wife and his two children.
Finally, after a friend yanked John to a psychiatrist, the truth came out. John, successful banker that he was, had suffered from a lifelong distrust and fear of women! His mother had been tyrannical and had watched his every move when he was a boy. His teachers he had disHked because they were '"old-maids," querulous women who thought small boys were a shade worse than mischievous puppies.
He had married young — too young. The resentments against womanhood in general still smoldered in him as he took the marriage vows. Small wonder that his repressed antagonism toward women took a strange turn: unfaithfulness to his wife, whom he really loved, but who represented the sex to which he basically was hostile.
When the involved mental attitude responsible for his actions was ex' plained to his wife, she returned to John, who finally understood how absurd and juvenile his attitude was. The playboy excesses stopped, and at 51 John finally reached mental and emotional maturity.
2. Adult "infants." Pete Millen was one of these. At 45, he had been married three times and was still having extra-marital relations. His wife couldn't understand it. Even Pete himself was miserable over his frequent infidelities. To the marriage counselor he finally visited, the reason for Pete's behavior was soon apparent. He had indulged in sexual activity at a precocious age, and as the years went on he demanded stronger
and more numerous sexual excitements.
One woman simply couldn't satisfy Pete, though he honestly hoped that each of his marriages would work out. He was always seeking new experiences, new partners in love-making. For such a man, there is little that can be done clinically; and luckless is the woman who marries an in' dividual of this unfortunate physiological and mental make-up.
3. Fear of impotence. Many males go haywire sexually simply because they fear they are '"sHpping" and will be senile and impotent by the time they are 55 or 60. This is bunk, say the psychiatrists and physicians, for most men, if they are healthy, may expect to retain their virility until they are 65 or 70. The famed Kinsey report shows that many men of 70 and older still make satisfying mates.
James Kenyon, a rich farmer, was one of these men. He married a woman 20 years younger than he, and after a decade of marriage began to worry that his wife might seek the company of a younger, more virile man. Finally, his worries developed into morbid fancies and he unfairly accused her of being romantically interested in a 30-year-old neighbor.
A country doctor, to whom Kenyon confided his fears, succeeded in talking the older man out of his mental anguish and suspicion. The doctor then talked with Mrs. Kenyon and suggested that she show more romantic interest in her spouse. "Compliment him on his looks, his energy," the doctor urged. ''Such praise is meat and drink to the man nearing 60." She followed his counsel and Farmer