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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a dear friend who when in her early 30’s married a man in his late 40’s. By his mid-60’s he looked and acted very old and in his early 70’s he was physically in very poor shape and when he passed away in his mid-70’s he was basically an invalid. She was 60 at the time and from age 50 on she was taking care of a very old man. She truly loved him but it was so sad to see her, in the prime of her life, living a very lonely life. She is a very attractive, successful and fun woman who missed out on so much. [b]I’m sure they had 20 very good years together but is that enough?[/b] [/quote]

Average marriage lasts 8 years and you figure at least two of those years were crappy before the divorce, so she got over 3x that.[/quote]

10 years of sustained misery is a long time. I feel for her.[/quote]

If you are the PP who knew her, you did not say that [i]she[/i] was actually “miserable”. You were just looking at it from the outside. Maybe she was happy to be with him even in physical decline. She did have a choice in the matter, after all. Nobody forced her to stay with him for those final 10 years.[/quote]

I am  NP who posted the 10 year comment.  Just felt sorry to hear that about the lady.[/quote]

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