Why you do see people entering and or exiting marriages is simple, your age. I'm not throwing off on you by saying that,
Not too sure I understand this. I didn't mean to imply that all the people I meet are exiting marriages just that given men in MLC are usually having affairs but we are told they don't last and they don't marry them but someone is marrying them for there to be a 60% failure of second marriages. Most of the men I know or have read on this site via LBS posters have m their ow. Maybe have not put my thoughts very clearly.
I smiled at you saying we over 55yrs lot don't get out much. My kids complain I am never in!. I do yoga, dance clases, craft classes and church activities(not always a laugh a minute) plus social invites. Theatre and parties, drinks etc. I just don't seem to connect although I do have fun, Maybe I am just not ready or not trusting enough. I am not unduly worried what will be will be.
I consider myself very lucky to have had 30 years of happy marriage and brought my children up to adulthood in a loving and stable enviroment. Thats a whole lot more than many people have in a lifetime. I certainly agree on the men wanting younger models! Pity they don't know what they are missing, there is alot to be said for fine wine.
Now I clearly said that not everyone over 55 was that way, I also said how much I admired the ones who did! Anyway, I do think that you would have to admit that many, if not most in that age category do not go out a lot. At least its the experience that I have seen. Older men do go for younger women, I think its a mortality thing, same for older women going for younger men, a growing trend I might add. As for the WAS marrying the om/ow, I am certain you are correct. I do want to point this out; How long have you been on the boards? 5,6,7 years? How long have these people been married to the OP? 3,4, maybe 5 years? The story hasn't concluded for those people yet. Give it another 2 or 3 years and look again at the survival rates of those marriages. I would wager that they will look like the stats I quoted.
