Gods they are so awesome.

Death is generally an ugly business, and I am indifferent, alone or attended is ok. Just want you to know that finding a dead loved one is also traumatic, that happened to me. If people love you they will be sad when you die whether they are there for you or not. So if they want to help you at the end, I'd say let them.

We went once to a very expensive restaurant (by our standards) the food, no, I am a good cook so restaurant food doesn't impress me. The reason it was expensive was small seating area, only 25 people at a time and that also was not great because they had only one server to do everything.

Was it good? Yes. Was it worth it? No.

A different time we went to a different expensive but not SO expensive restaurant here and that was better. The server brought us each plate one at a time to share, made recommendations, sort of hung out in the least annoying way possible, and the food was local and creative. That one I would say was worth it.

Individual item? Probably wine with my rich brother in law. I've not enough of a palate to say much, but OTOH I don't really like wine enough to like bad wine, and since I wasn't paying, 100% worth it.

Cheese-Flowers-Potatoes for me which incidentally is also arranged highest price to lowest. My kids got me a wheel of Humboldt Fog one year for Christmas. Cheese is a fantastic gift.

Here too. Our friend's kid went into plumbing, he gets steady well paid work with a company plus under the table jobs at least one per weekend. He's raking it in & happy about it. It is a demanding and often stinky job but very lucrative.

Violent crime?

Younger people do too. Brain chemistry, social conditioning, men are more likely to commit violent crime, and the effect is magnified because they are physically stronger overall.

Crime in general? Like shoplifting, embezzlement, fraud? Do men commit more? I don't know if that is true.

AnarchistArtificer has a point, but I think we do have good evidence that men commit more of the crimes of violence. Murder and rape are more commonly committed by men. It could be that they are just more successful at it, for lack of a better word - if I got in a fight with a man my size, I am the one more likely to be harmed, right? But I don't think so. It does seem evident, from the evidence we have, that men do commit more violent crime.

This doesn't mean that men are in general violent. Just that the small subset of violent people is mostly guys.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/

Hand model, gloves all the time!

It does sound like you are lonely.
I quite like being alone and doing things alone, because I am not often alone so it is luxurious and indulgent.

If you think everyone in the world except you is a loud drunk idiot, that might explain why you are so often alone though. Why in the world would you judge everyone else and hold yourself apart? There is zero chance that you are not like anyone else in the world and the rest of us just suck.

Ask his wife.

If she is ok with it, he's not cheating.

There really isn't any other way to know.

Yes. I am a woman and really enjoy sex. Less so when I was younger but it is not supposed to hurt, no. Two questions:

What happens when you put in a tampon?

Are you really very aroused before trying penetration?

ETA - people are recommending lube but lube does not substitute for arousal. Lube only helps slip - arousal makes space, adds slip, and relaxes the opening of the vagina some, so that there is room for a penis (or fingers or whatever). Sex is amazing but you need to be turned on to enjoy it.

Sexy time? No thanks

Movie? No thanks

What do you want to do?

Sit on the porch with you, have a drink and talk, go for a walk, sleep, whatever.

Why not just ask? Or:

I'm gonna watch Hot Fuzz, do you want to?

OMG you are so hot I want you right now.

Not that it's someone's responsibility to know how to ask things, but I think it does help to you know, know your partner. Someone asking "sexy time?" wouldn't make me want sex, and I might want to watch a movie if I know which one.

Even better - "I'm gonna play Genshin, unless you wanna watch a movie, is there anything you want to watch? "

Like, there are probably a thousand better ways to approach this. Maybe it's in the delivery not the suggestions.

I've met plenty of Republicans who just think that the R means a better economy. Single issue voters. Not socially conservative, live and let live, but terrified that Democrats will crash the economy somehow. Don't ask me, I don't understand it either.

And plenty of liberal Christians, which actually makes more sense.