i think men mature like wine. you don't get the best til later. my husband is 62 and he's mellowed more now than at 40. i married him at 24. he adored me and still does. i can do nothing wrong. excepting once i threw out a chair he liked and he didn't forget that for a while. but, mainly he's very forgiving and loving. younger men, i believe, tend to be less forgiving and more critical. women can be very sensitive. and,even when they give it (crit) if a man is able to be a man and just take it for five minutes - the women just mellows and melts and can't stay angry. that is what my husband did the first time i got angry at him. he just looked all hurt and then asked what he could do to make it better. he didn't get defensive or act immature and put it back in my face - even if it was totally in my imagination. taking women seriously makes them love you very very much.
also, he gives me jewelry. i got these beautiful pearl earrings when we were first married - and he kept saying - 'go play the piano.' at that point i was i tired - so he had to wait an hour or so - and i went to the piano and he had the box of earrings inside the lid of the piano. i thought it was so romantic. also, he keeps our anniversary every month. he takes me out to dinner on that day every month. chocolate from his trip to france. wherever he goes - if i can't go - he calls and i know he isn't with anyone else. once he was proposed to in france, and had to walk across the street really fast to lose her. also, he has done really nice things on the spur of the moment. sometimes i tell him he isn't romantic - but really he's a romantic at heart because it's totally in his heart.