Both retired, both in our seventies, and we go to bed early
Posted as asleep_by_nine
- Looking for
- couples our own age for daytime company and conversation
- Experience
- Forty one years together, most of them with this quietly inside.
- Around
- the South Bay, Los Angeles
We are seventy one and seventy three and we have been together forty one years. This has been part of our marriage for most of that, privately, and it has changed shape a dozen times as our bodies and our circumstances changed. It is quieter now and it is not gone.
The South Bay. Both retired, both in reasonable health, both entirely useless after about nine in the evening. What we are looking for is other couples our own age. Not for anything strenuous. For lunch, for a long afternoon, for the particular pleasure of talking about this with people who have also done it for decades and watched the whole world's attitude to it change around them.
We have almost nobody left to talk to about it. The friends who knew have moved away or died. That is the plain reason for this post and we have decided not to dress it up.
If a friendship turned into something more we would consider it, and we would want to know somebody a long time first. At our age the calculation is different. There is less time and considerably less appetite for drama, and both of those push in the same direction.
Daytime only, please. Anything after seven in the evening and one of us will be asleep in a chair while the other pretends not to notice.