Lest there be any mistake

Rico says that anyone who sees posts in this Rant about women (other than those about the wonderful woman he lives with) and ascribes to them anything other than the typically perverse musings of an older gentleman, should remember that without Chris in his life (even if he had been with any of the long list of the women he has known through the years) at the end of 2006 Rico would have been, as Miracle Max put it in Princess Bride, not "mostly dead" but "all dead", which is worse.
So do not conflate lust with love, and get it that Rico loves a good woman and is lucky to have her (and to have her love him, most days)...