Sometimes you just need an older man
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Gingerbreadspice · F
I guess the good thing about liking an older man is the fact you won’t have to worry about him not finding you attractive anymore. However he will die 40 years before you and he won’t be able to get it up after 20 years of being with him. Your sex games will be of you feeding him viagra.
SomeMichGuy · M
@Gingerbreadspice Wow...assume much? lol
Gingerbreadspice · F
@SomeMichGuy I don’t really know much about you or how old you are but I see you liking and commenting quite a lot. I’m actually kind of joking. 40 years of being a widow is a long time and not getting it up for 20 years is a long time. However it does happen if the man is too much older than her. My grandmothers lived 25 years longer than my granddads and both of sets the couples were the same age. My grandads both died at 68 and grandmother died at 94 and my youngest grandma is 92 and still living.
SomeMichGuy · M
@Gingerbreadspice My previous reply is reiterated.
I had a great-grandmother whom I knew and a grandmother whom I could never have known, who predeceased her husband by ≈20 yrs.
Smh
I had a great-grandmother whom I knew and a grandmother whom I could never have known, who predeceased her husband by ≈20 yrs.
Smh
basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M
@SomeMichGuy I see her point though. While relevant, your anecdote is statistically an outlier. Women generally live longer than men according to statistics.
SomeMichGuy · M
@basilfawlty89 Yes, but she has very specific stats (her family's experience in two marriages are not determinative of the whole any more than the single example I had; and my other grandmother also predeceased her husband by many years).
The mortality tables are affected by how and where we live; if the two sets of the other respondent's grandparents were of the similar generations, it wouldn't be surprising if they had roughly similar experiences. The older one may have been around during the (Great) Depression and WWII, which was a hard time to grow up.
In the interim, a lot of great advances in medicine have been made, but others are hurting everyone's chances of survival by embracing nonsense. But the diseases considered treatable and even preventable today is much different, and for those who had a functioning CDC, NIH, FDA, EPA, USDA, OSHA, and enforced laws for clean air and water, etc., there is definitely a solid set of decades of better living which is very different from what some of the grandparents had.
But the sexual assumptions...! lol
The very specific predictions seem to be based more upon assumptions of the general applicability of specific experience to the whole, when we might have two pairings of an early male death (before the deadly decade) with a female surviving into the second decade beyond the 70's.
The mortality tables are affected by how and where we live; if the two sets of the other respondent's grandparents were of the similar generations, it wouldn't be surprising if they had roughly similar experiences. The older one may have been around during the (Great) Depression and WWII, which was a hard time to grow up.
In the interim, a lot of great advances in medicine have been made, but others are hurting everyone's chances of survival by embracing nonsense. But the diseases considered treatable and even preventable today is much different, and for those who had a functioning CDC, NIH, FDA, EPA, USDA, OSHA, and enforced laws for clean air and water, etc., there is definitely a solid set of decades of better living which is very different from what some of the grandparents had.
But the sexual assumptions...! lol
The very specific predictions seem to be based more upon assumptions of the general applicability of specific experience to the whole, when we might have two pairings of an early male death (before the deadly decade) with a female surviving into the second decade beyond the 70's.
Gingerbreadspice · F
@SomeMichGuy Strangely in the USA average life span is apparently slightly shorter than it is for Northern Western Europe where I’m from. However that is irrelevant. My sexual assumptions was for this young woman who posted what looked like a school girl with a man in his 40s or 50s. Which is weird and she’ll definitely outlive him by 40 years. Not that it happens generally.
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hartfire · 61-69
@SomeMichGuy My parents were like that.
I was a "love child", conceived while they were each married to someone else.
They divorced their respective spouses to marry each other after I was born.
She was 35, he 54. He died of heart failure and double pneumonia at 68 (I was 14), she of a siezure at 91.
Apart from their respective neuroses, which worked like lock and key,
Mum described their difficulties as due to their generational gap in values.
Dad described their difficulties as due to her stupidity.
Both were alcoholics.
A particular relationship doesn't necessarily fit in the middle of a statistical bell curve, but the conditions of any situation are potent forces.
I was a "love child", conceived while they were each married to someone else.
They divorced their respective spouses to marry each other after I was born.
She was 35, he 54. He died of heart failure and double pneumonia at 68 (I was 14), she of a siezure at 91.
Apart from their respective neuroses, which worked like lock and key,
Mum described their difficulties as due to their generational gap in values.
Dad described their difficulties as due to her stupidity.
Both were alcoholics.
A particular relationship doesn't necessarily fit in the middle of a statistical bell curve, but the conditions of any situation are potent forces.