Well, that's all a man really needs. A hound and a wife. For me it would be a CAT and a wife. But I've never married, so I'll take TWO cats, which is the exact number we have in our household. It's just me, my sister, and our two kitties. I used to get depressed because I've never married, now I accept it and enjoy doing what I want and when I want to do it. Since having a relationship with the woman I thought was the "one" go sour 30 years ago, I've avoided relationships since. The break up hit me REAL hard. We had been seeing each other for four years, and I thought marriage was on our horizon. Nope. I spent the better part of the next two years drinking WAY too much in an effort to drown my sorrows. Of course, this made matters worse. I made a new friend during this time, and she was able to help me to get away from drinking. We never became more than friends, but that was fine for both of us. She started having a serious relationship with another guy just a couple years into our friendship, and we lost touch and our friendship. But I expected something like this, so it didn't send me into too much of a downward spiral. My manic depression and my OCD DID flare up, and luckily my mother and the music of Muddy Waters, believe it or not, helped me get through my depression.