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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had to put up with an abusive addictive deceptive cheating husband and all the OLD discussions just give me a headache thinking about them and the effort just to find a man who isn't interested in someone younger or using me. Are there other options for living together with someone else that are formal like with OLD? I do better living with someone or near someone with lots of people to keep me engaged during the day and night but maybe my future is more like the Golden Girls rather than with a man. Do people do this type of thing as they age or are older women also too set in their ways to cohabitate? Am I just looking for a 55 and up retirement community?[/quote]

Best friends and siblings do this still. As a society, we devalue these non-romantic life partnerships because we see it as a sign that they “failed”.

I have two sets of great aunts that paired up and spent their lives together. In one set, neither ever married or had kids. In the other, one had a brief, young marriage that produced a child. She and her sister raised that child together. All four of these aunts had much happier lives than most of the women I saw around me.

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