| Well the obvious advantage in taking a younger life | | | | end of his life instead of enjoying hers. |
| partner is, of, course, that you are unlikely to be left | | | | The solution is definitely to marry someone |
| a widow unless the object of your affection has the | | | | considerably younger than you, but the question is - |
| misfortune and spectacular bad luck to get run over | | | | how young? One reads of grandmothers successfully |
| by a bus on day three of the honeymoon or | | | | marrying young men of eighteen or nineteen years |
| something equally tragic, not to mention inconvenient. | | | | old but I have to say I cannot understand why such |
| Getting left behind to cope alone is of course the | | | | unions succeed. What on earth do they find to talk |
| most worrying thing older women have to face. | | | | about? No, that definitely would not suit me. |
| Those with husbands considerably older than | | | | A man twenty or even fifteen years younger might |
| themselves dread the day when they will have to | | | | also find the grass considerably greener when |
| join hobby groups en masse to get through the day, | | | | confronted with attractive women of his own age. |
| or start line dancing classes, water colour groups or, | | | | The golden age gap seems to be between fifteen |
| God help us all, knitting circles. | | | | and ten years younger. That way the lady in the |
| Another drawback is financial insecurity. Unless both | | | | partnership is young enough to enjoy all the physical |
| partners have a career, the man might find himself | | | | advantages of being married to someone younger |
| having to budget for the retirement of his wife | | | | yet old enough to be unlikely to outlive him, thus |
| extending well beyond his own. Not everybody is | | | | ensuring financial and emotional security for her |
| sensible enough to work out such arrangements | | | | twilight years. |
| satisfactorily and a widow may find herself with | | | | The analysis is all a waste of time, of course, |
| serious cash problems at a time in her life when she | | | | because what really matters is that you spend your |
| is least able to cope with them. | | | | available years on earth with someone whom you |
| More often than not, women married to far older | | | | can love and relate to in some harmony. The formula |
| men find themselves nursing a sick husband at the | | | | is, to some extent, irrelevant. |