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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the problem is the physical age. I know lots of people in their 70s in great shape.

The problem is he’s a complete creeper, emotionally stunted weirdo that he would be focused on dating so much younger. Alternatively, he doesn’t see you as a partner at all; just a F buddy who looks pretty on his arm and lets him talk and takes care of him. Because there is no world where a man at his age would have a natural and equal and healthy partnership with someone ops age. Either he’s mentally screwed up, or it’s not an equal partnership. 
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I know a lot of people in their 70s in great shape also. But their lives don’t look the same as they did at age 50. Even the people I know who still travel extensively are doing this in between having a knee replacement, thinking about a hearing aide, etc. And 70 seems like the magic number where things start to cascade downward. If something goes really wrong, most people in their 70s aren’t bouncing back as quickly as a 50 year old would.

There are many, many reasons not to marry this guy. First, second marriages have a higher divorce rate. Second, she will be a stepmom, which is very hard for most people (and often why second marriages end in divorce). Third, she will have a much higher potential disability rate for her kids. The odds of her going from kids in the home to caregiving pretty darn quickly are relatively high. And let’s not even get started on the problematic nature of guys who still want to date twenty something’s for decades. Few of them are winners that are in it for the long haul. [/quote]

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