Trudy, I was having good sucess with mucinex and the chest cold I had the last few weeks but it doesn't touch this head cold. I've switched to rx psuedoephedrine (wheeeee) and postponed date. Booo.

Teppy, for skin care I also have obscenely sensitive skin (like the clinique yellow sensitive skin moisturizer would burn around my eyes and mouth) and I'm now totally hooked on La Roche-Posay Anthelios SX daily use moisturizer UVA/UVB Spf 15 for every day. I have to buy it online, haven't ever seen it on a shelf in a US store. I also use the La Roche-Posay Hydraphase UV for eyes around my delicate eyes (no SPF for daily use, SPF 29 option for sunny days outside) and their Anthelios XL 50 spf lotion as sunblock on my face and decolletage.

My dermatologist's office has an onsite skincare specialist who sent me home with sample sizes of multiple different products and that's how I discovered La Roche-Posay, I would certainly never had sprung for expensive skin care products otherwise. Before that I was doing a home-made mixture of jojoba oil, rosehip oil and a splash of vitamin E oil around the eyes and a generic Oil of Olay sensitive skin 15spf for the rest of the face. My skin looks way better now. I wish every dermatologist had the same!

My skin has always been fine, sensitivity-wise, with Lush's Imperialis (7-8 months of the year) and Skin Drink (during the winter). But my Skin Drink smells like cat pee, and I'm annoyed about that.

I might start with Aveeno and see how that goes.

Meara, I know lots of successful relationships with significant age differeces. My rule of thumb is ten years or less, the age difference won't even take any work. More that ten years, likely to still work, but may be a little extra work to deal with differences in attitude and knowledge . If everything else is good, even that is not a big thing.

Blood~ma, askye!

I use Kiss My Face lavender and shea moisturizer. My skin's semi-sensitive. There's no sunblock in it, though.

I do not have this kind of work ethic. Very occasionally I feel bad about it, but mostly I'm glad to sleep or watch TV rather than "bravely" solidiering through work when I feel like hell. Anyway, good luck with the convincing - any chance he's contagious? Maybe you could convince him it's uncool to spread the germs around? Doesn't he have a long-ass commute, too? Better not to be behind the wheel (and sharing the roads) for extended periods of unwellness. And the fact that rest is often the best medicine and/or the thing that helps you clear that last hurdle to better-ness. And...that's all I got off the top of my head. I hope he bows to your superior logic.

I doubt he is still contagious. He is just dealing with exhaustion and some residual stomach badness at this point. Also, he'd probably say that if he could drive the hour and a half home from Mom's tonight (which he did), then he can drive the hour to work tomorrow. He had Friday and today off and he has a personal day on Wednesday because of an appointment. So, mainly he just doesn't want to go in on Thursday to nearly a week's worth of voicemails and e-mails and a ton of work stacked up on his desk. Which is understandable, but he really never does take a sick day. All of his vacation days, yes. Sick days, almost never.

Postponing the date is a drag. Boo.

My rule of thumb is ten years or less, the age difference won't even take any work.

DH is 11 years younger than me, and my mom is 15 years older than her DH. Like any other difference, (religion, ethnicity, politics, upbringing), a generational difference can cause issues, but it doesn't have to.

Burrell, how old were you and your DH when you met? Thanks everyone for the reminder of several awesome buffista couples! I feel like if I were 40 and she were 30 29, it wouldn't be such a thing. But 24 seems so young....if only because she's still friends with people in college and she works at Starbucks. Yknow. Still figuring out her life.

My theory is that it is not so much the numbers as possible differences in stage of life and (great) differences in maturity. For instance it would be much more challenging for a a twenty-five year old who is still in party-and-occasionally-show-up-to-work mode to be with another twenty-five year old who is in career-going-ok & thinking-about-establishing-family mode to make it work, than it would be for a twenty-five year old and a 40 year old who are both in career-going-ok & thinking-about-establishing-family mode. Of course, the younger a person is, the more likely it is for such a person to change focus and direction and stage of life more than once in a decade, which can be disconcerting to a person who has already gone through those changes of focus.

meara, I'm 39 and still figuring out my life. It's a constant life-long evolution. I am a different person than I was 13 1/2 months ago. Change happens at any time. Is she happy at Starbucks? Then it doesn't matter.

Get to know her outside of the making out. Find out if you like her. See what happens. Deal with the issues as they come up; don't fabricate ones where they don't exist.