[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by katerogers

Never have truer words been spoke. The wrong one is far worse. But, if it truly takes 20 years of independence to reach the point where you would really would like to have a life partner again, I will be turning 80...so, it's quite possible I will have lost my girlish figure and wouldn't be making any man much of a partner.

Katie

Actually it did not take me twenty years of post marriage singlehood to desire a life partner. I was married so young and so long that at first I did not really know how to do single. My first serious LTR started a few months after my divorce. A few others followed. What I have found is that although it is easy to find a partner(s) it can be difficult to find the right partner unless one is fortunate. The wife of one friend of mine divorced him when he was 65. He remarried at 70 and is very, very happy. Another lost his wife to cancer when he was 77. He remarried at 82, is now 86 and is also quite happy. One just never knows! I do believe the best way to live is as one of a happy couple.