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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They both have talked about hoping to travel...Ok, 
 so maybe they have realistically maybe eight to ten/twelve years to do that if all goes well. Statistically, traveling after he's 85 is unlikely. And then the odds are she will become his caregiver at some point. So, I just don't see the romance here and I'm not a cynic. There are also adult children to "blend" (all daughters which have been very involved with their widowed parent...so also  likely to be complicated). [b]And there's likely a lot of money involved (see Theresa's house in Shrewsbury which I'm sure is only one part of an extensive baby boomer portfolio!).[/b] I  hope she's smart enough to protect herself. [/quote]

Do you have details about her home? [/quote]

Her house in Shrewsbury IS TINY and only woth 568k. What are you talking about. My house is worth 6 times that and I'm a nobody. [/quote]

You are either uninformed or purposely feigning ignorance.

If you own a multimillion dollar home, you are far from the average American. (Who will never own even a million dollars in assets) [/quote]

I realize that.  But people are acting like she is rich because she has a 500k home. That is laughable.[/quote]

She paid 300something for it, about the same price Gerry paid for his. Leslie's condo was 250k. They're all roughly the same in terms of living standard.[/quote]

+1. [b]Plus if it’s paid off, and if she also has, say, a $1m investment portfolio, maybe even a pension from her own or her husband’s work, she’s doing just fine. Not DCUM rich, but definitely comfortable. [/b]

Theresa is 72. She doesn’t need her assets to last for 50 more years. She probably doesn’t want the upkeep on a larger house—I don’t now my kids have fledged, and I have house cleaners and a lawn crew.  Plus she (currently) lives really close to her kids and grandkids, so she doesn’t need a lot of guest bedrooms.

Check in here when you’re 72 and tell us if you’re still ok with hiring lawn crews and house cleaners for a huge house you don’t use. Plus downsizing is a gift to your kids—my mom downsized after spending months cleaning out my grandparents’ huge house.

You people insisting a 72-year-old needs to pay DMV prices for a large house have the wrong end of the stick. [/quote]

Yes, my guess is her net worth is along these lines.  Better off than Gerry, but probably not massively so. Toni had a steady income in a modest job and he, as we know, had a series of random, increasingly menial jobs over the years. The question is whether they were able to save much. She worked steadily until she was 68, so maybe.[/quote]

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