We opened this month's Circles pondering the question about what we, as women, feel we need, desire, or expect from a partner at this time in our lives. We asked ourselves if these expectations mirrored those from when we were young and in the first blushes of love. The groups included both married and divorced women. For the most part, there was little difference between the responses. After going around and around citing perceived wins and failures in all of our relationshi