Sorry.. Getting personal again

How long does a man wait when a woman says she needs space?
Space to put her life in order,
Perhaps to put it in enough disorder to offset an imposed order.

How long does a man wait, seeing her every day,
Every night not knowing if she has decided not to see him,
If she has deliberately blinkered that side of her vision?

How long will she make him write bad poetry
At the age of forty?