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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sympathize with the difficulty of dealing with a dying boyfriend, but 48 is still pretty young to die. [/quote]
He died at 52, four years after we started dating. Still pretty young. But I still wouldn't have had to deal with this if he was in my age bracket. You cannot defy physicality. A 52-year old body is what it is. Not from the looks perspective, from the disease perspective.  There is simply more likelihood of sickness and death in much older men. [/quote]

Ummmm... if you marry a guy roughly your own age, you don't think he's going to get sick, get old and die? Or that when he does, you won't have to deal with it? Why not?

Why is it better to deal with a man getting old and dying when YOU are also old, rather than when you are young?

[quote=Anonymous]The second one was 50 and I was closer to 30. ... There were also, ahem, medical issues.  And I realized that if I stayed with him, I would be his nurse maid.   [/quote]

So let's say you had married the guy and that [b]you [/b]were 50 (not 30) and he was 50. Would you not have to be his nursemaid when you were both 65?

It certainly doesn't sound easier to be a nursemaid when you're 65 than when you're 40.[/quote]

I should also clarify that when I said "ahem, medical issues," I meant sex-related medical issues.   It was sort of an eye-opener because I realized that even though he was insistent that he was in better shape than men 20 years younger, he was still 50, and I was 30.  And yes, that age gap would feel bigger in 10 years.  I think in the beginning I believed his constant drum beat of "I'm in such great shape!"  But then I realized that he was in good shape for a 50-year-old man, but he was still 20 years older than me.  I think often both people (the younger one in the couple and the older one) are in a bit of denial about the reality of the physical age gap.[/quote]

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