Both retired, both slow, and neither of us is getting on a train
Posted as the_short_walk
- Looking for
- people within walking distance who would like a long friendship
- Experience
- Together twenty seven years, twenty of them in this.
- Around
- the east of the city, Hamburg
Between us we have two bad knees, one hip that is on a list, and a firm shared policy of not going anywhere that requires changing transport. It sounds like a joke and it is genuinely the constraint that now decides everything.
We are sixty five and sixty seven, east of the city, together twenty seven years, twenty of them with this in our life. We are not looking for a partner or a third. We have what we want between us and there is nothing here that needs fixing.
What we have lost is the circle. It was about a dozen people for two decades and it has thinned in all the ordinary ways. Two moved away, one died, and the rest stopped going out at roughly the same time we did.
So we are looking for a couple, or two friends, or one person, living near enough that seeing each other does not require planning. Afternoons rather than evenings. Coffee, a walk that is not long, dinner at somebody's kitchen table. People who know what our life contains and do not need it explained to them.
We are experienced and happy to talk about any of it, while being aware that some of our opinions are forty years old and possibly wrong by now. Not looking for anything physical with anybody, and we are plain about that, because a post from a couple our age is read a certain way. Not looking to be anybody's example of how people manage at our age. We manage.