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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need to remarry at 72? Are you afraid you'll die tomorrow and single? Take it slow and easy. You can live together with someone with out getting married (need to check the squatter laws first) or you can just visit each other. Let the 54 yo earn her own keep. Hope she has her own dwellings. Give your wife's life insurance money to the kids. Unless you're all poors and you need to give your wife's life insurance money to this 54 yo so that she'd sleep with you. You do realize that no normal 54 yo who has their own money would even look at you? I'm 53 and yuk. She obviously wants to get married fast to clean you up real quick after a house-sale and insurance money. Men really are stupid. [/quote]

And someone has finally stated the obvious.  A 54-year-old woman has no interest in a 72-year-old man beyond money.   Does anyone on this board, other than the OP, disagree?  OP, do you also know this to be true and are okay with it? [/quote]

I certainly can believe that this is often true, but I do have to push back a little bit because I’m 55 later this month and I recently saw a single man in his 70s reply to one of my posts on Facebook, I checked out his profile and considered sending a friend request with an eye toward friendship and maybe more. He is clearly very liberal (as am I) and close to his adult kids and into various hobbies that we share in common. I wouldn’t have any issues dating a man 20 years older than me because that much increases the likelihood that he’s finally emotionally matured - although OP rather proves the rule in this regard.

I ultimately decided not to reach out because in general I feel my life is better as a singleton than most of the coupled friends and acquaintances I know who even in middle age and beyond are dealing with much more drama than I have a taste for. But I think there are probably other women in their 50s who wouldn’t be averse to dating an older man and not because they’re in it for money. [/quote]

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