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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve been married almost 40 years with most of our friends being married 30-40 years. I can definitely see a difference between happy couples and those who seem to be coasting along in their relationship. But I sense that at this point in their lives divorce is unlikely to happen. [b]Being 60+ and being alone by choice is a pretty lonely prospect especially for women.[/b] I assume that sex is still a part of the happy couples lives and it certainly is with ours. [/quote]

says who? I know plenty of 60+ "alone by choice" women and they seem very happy to me.  obviously a fairy-tale relationship would be preferable (at any age and gender) but the lonely cat lady thing is a stereotype I've never seen borne out in my own observations. [/quote]

I’m 64 and I have a few friends who are in their 60’s and divorced. They are happier being divorced than in their bad marriages but they always tell me I’m so lucky to still be in a great relationship after almost 40 years. They are not cat ladies but they’d love to be in a LTR. [/quote]

So my dad passed away many years ago and my mom made a conscious decision to not marry again.   She’s now close to 80 and no way close to being a cat lady.  She has such an active life but then she also gets to live her life the way she wants to.  She wouldn’t do it any other way.

This narrative that women aren’t living a complete life if they are alone is wrong and harmful.  I wonder if some of this could be projecting.[/quote]

I think there might be a difference between divorced women and widows. My mom has been a widow for 15 years and my father was the love of her life and she has no interest in being in a relationship. Most of the divorced women I know, including my sister, would like to find real love. [/quote]

Maybe not. My sister was dating a year after being widowed. 7 years out and she’s engaged. Everyone is different. [/quote]

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