Scout's QLC journey #4

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KML - I think the sitch with your ex and his wife has to have its challenges just based on the large age difference never mind the MLC component that probably still lingers in your ex.

I know a couple where the wife (she is #3) is almost 25 years younger than her h. I think he was struggling with aging when he met her. There is a huge financial difference between them; she signed his prenup. He is a well reknowned surgeon and nowhere did he marry his intellectual equal. As years have passed he sort of mocks her. It is quite disrespectful as he knew she was not an intellectual type when he met her. His kids do not respect her; never did. She is only a few years older than his daughter.

He openly treats her like the Junior Partner in the firm. I just don’t get what she saw in this match.

Anyway, at first the age difference was not such a factor. But now that he is almost 70 and she is almost 45, it’s stark! She is starting to have to really care for him: “did you eat this morning? Why are you sitting in the house watching TV in a complete darkness?” And when she comes home she sort of sings out his name a few times as she walks in as if to wake him up. When they are out people assume he is her dad. So she tries to dress really old.

Their conversations DO sound more like a daughter checking in on her dad. Age is not just a number!!!