She’s 75. :eek:
(Coworker’s betrothed is a few months older than she.)
Good for them
I think it’s wonderful for them, but I do wonder what the point is of getting married. Why not just live in sin? But coolness either way.
Power of attorney, health insurance, etc., etc. Even if you don’t care at all about the religious institution of marriage, there are plenty of reasons to be married in the eyes of the state.
I gather she’s very religious. She doesn’t ‘witness’ or anything, but she does not participate in Christmas because (I’m told) the holiday does not hold to Christian doctrine.
I don’t see the big deal. My father just turned 75 a few days ago. If he found himself single again (which I would hate, naturally), women would be lined up for blocks go out with him. Geez, even an ex-girlfriend of mine said she’d marry him.
I have more than a few friends whose parents and grandparents have remarried in their 70’s, one in her 80’s.
I don’t think I’d do it though. Seems like adjustments would be more difficult.
But yeah, good for her!
My uncle remarried at the age of 81, to a very nice lady about fifteen years his junior. And he’d been married for over fifty years to his first wife, my aunt!
My folks knew a guy at their church, who, at the age of 75, married again for the fourth time! Kind of like Ben Cartwright, he was a three times widower. He was married to #4 for over twenty five years, but by the time he died he was senile and didn’t know who she was, and would call her by the names of his first three wives.
One of my grandfathers did that. Well, he has had a girlfriend about 14 years younger than him for the last 8 years. He’s approaching 90. 
In this case, I think part of the reason they don’t marry is that my grandpa, religious as he may be, is also very good at separating it from his other side. Plus, I don’t think the girlfriend, herself a rich widow, would want to marry my grandpa.
My grandmother remarried after 40 years of marriage (and one year of widowhood) to her most recent husband (going to three and a half years of marriage now). She was 82, he was 80 at the time.
Inheritance, tax benefits, for senior citizens there are lots of travel benefits and membership benefits that are available to married couples that aren’t available to companions, even cohabiting ones.
If it take me another 30 years to find my soulmate, I’m going to get married and celebrate that miracle with my friends and family.
I probably won’t wear white, though.
Wow, that’s great! So many times we think that there is no chance of finding love or romance after age 40.
I’m more :eek: at the fact that she’s working at age 75 than that she’s getting married
Well, some do by necessity, but I know some people well past retirement age who continue working because they love it. I hope that happens to me.
My grandmother remarried at age 72. She had been widowed after 48 years of marriage to my grandfather. When her second husband died after 6 years (you take your chances when you marry someone who’s 80), she continued to date, but said that she would never marry again because at that age all they want is someone to cook and clean for them. At 88, she had a serious dilemma because two different guys invited her to the New Year’s Eve party at the senior center. After she passed away at age 94, we found some great pictures of her from the 1920’s, wearing knickers and argyle socks and sitting on the back of some guy’s motorcycle.
My father still works a very busy and demanding job at age 77 because he loves it. I don’t expect to be kicking off anytime soon.
I’ve been with the company two years, and she’s been working two ten-hour days per week since I’ve been there. Our treasurer is nearly as old, and our president started with the company (in the mail room) as I was starting Kindergarten!
The woman we bought our first house from had just retired from a job in medical billing at 82.
I was the organist for the wedding of a woman in her 70s and a man in his 80s, both widowed years previously. It was very sweet. The bride wore a lovely lilac dress. She had known me since I was born, and loved to talk about how I’d visit her corner store and she’d feed me bananas.
They had about five happy years together until alzheimer’s caught up with her. He cared for her as best he could until she had to be hospitalized. He declined swiftly himself after she was gone. I was so glad they were able to have that short happy time together.
Me, too. I think I’d stagnate quickly if I ever retired. I hope that by the time I’m that age, my health will allow me to keep it up, even just part-time.
40!?
Guess I’m lucky then. Just celebrated my first anniversary (with the current wife) and I’m 44.
Wow, he lived to be 100? Cool.
And I work with 3 older guys. Two of them are 79 and one of them is 71. That goes to show ya, as long as we engineers can pick up that stamp …
