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Do i continue to love or let go?

So my current boyfriend is 20 years older than me, and Idk why but i started to have these thoughts about losing him in the future to natural causes...
I mean when I’m 40 he’ll be 60, should i save myself the pain now and leave before i get too emotionally attached?
I know this might seem irrational and i should live in the moment instead of running out of fear, but that fear is real. The fear of being alone, losing someone to death... someone that close.
But there’s possibilities of losing someone no matter the age, anything could happen.
So what do I do?? How do i ignore these crazy thoughts? Or are they not so crazy to think?
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DragonFruit · 61-69, M Best Comment
Continue to love....my sister was married to a man 23 years older than she for many years. Yes, he died of natural causes a few years ago.....but they were happy together for a long time before he died. Some people have died when they were more than 20 years younger than he was (he was 82).
If you really love someone you shouldn’t lose them now because you fear losing them a short time from now. I’m here today because my grandfather didn’t do that. My grandmother was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease when she was 18 (her parents and siblings all had it, and none of them lived past age 35). She was told she had a year to live. A short time later she met my grandfather, who fell madly in love with her and proposed to her after they had dated for 3 weeks. She told him that the doctors had given her a year to live. He said “Well, however long you have to live, that’s how long I want to live with you.” They were married for over 50 years and had 3 children, including my mother.
(My grandmother’s rheumatic heart disease was not as severe as the doctors back then had thought, and none of her children or grandchildren has been diagnosed with it).
You never know what the future might bring....don’t let go because of that.
DragonFruit · 61-69, M
Thank you for B.A.
StonerGirl69 · 26-30, F
@DragonFruit of course! Thank you for sharing your story with me, that was very sweet and motivating.