[goat granny]

Lost my husband when I was 50, had one date a year later and decided I love living alone. I don't mistake being alone with be lonely. Love men just don't want to live with any. Get up when you want, clean house when you want, eat when your hungry, after 65 stay in jammies if you want and have a great dog that only makes 2 demands on me, feed me and let me out to pee. Life has been good..GG

[tet68]

You go GG!
I’m 64 and have lived alone for the last ten years,
I have a great dog and do what I want. I love women
but I’ve lost the social skills that go with interacting
with them so none of them find me attractive.
My dog is happy just to go up to the store.

[Twinkie]

Aargh! I’m a 64 yr. old woman. Hardly seems like a year or two since I was 52. It flies. I’ve been married to the same man for going on 47 yrs. I doubt very seriously if I would ever remarry (even if anyone out there would have me) if anything happened to my husband. The freedom you describe here is pretty good; and my lifestyle has evolved into being a bit like that - although it wasn’t that way for many years. You just become more tolerant of each other usually the longer you’re together. You realize you both need each other and that “hot” looking number you may have been looking at in the past would just amount to trading one set of problems for most likely another set of much worse problems. . and for what, a mess of pottage in most cases.

[rabidralph]

Heh-heh! Good for you!