Who Feels It More.

Women tend to lose a lot of income when they endure a "gray divorce" as they are called. Also, there is the difficulty in finding a new partner. Luckily not all men are after a younger partner. I know someone who is older who is in a relationship with a woman his own age. They found each other on eharmony and they like the compatability they share.

I think it depends on the individual. We have known a few men who married again in less than a year of their wives passing. Personally I don’t think that I would ever marry again if I outlived my husband. He feels the same. I pray that we have each other for as long as possible.

It is not necessary that every widow or divorcee should remarry or take a partner

That is a very interesting question. I have a brother-in-law who lost his wife, as well as a sister-in-law who lost her husband. Both were close couples. The brother-in-law and his wife were such a couple's couple, you know the kind, you always see together and smiling and laughing. The other couple, was more independent, always smiling and laughing. I feel that the brother-in-law is much much more broken hearted than the sister-in-law who lost her husband is. The brother-in-law, lost his wife, Anne, to cancer. She fought bravely, with him at her side the entire time, which was for several years. The sister-in-law, helped her husband, Rick, who had suffered from strokes over the course of a few years, which left him unable to care for himself, or even for her to care for him. In his last 6 months of life he had to go to a nursing home, where she was at his side daily for hours on end. I believe that my brother-in-law, Bob, had totally devoted his life to his late wife, Anne. I felt that way from when I met them back in the early '80's.

I don't know, honestly... I'm quite happy not being married anymore. Both my marriages failed due to infidelity and I just don't want to live through that again. Twice was more than enough for me.

Live for yourself, not others. Just do what you enjoy. Do not care what others think.

As long as a couple are happy it does not matter what the age differences is.

That is the usual reason for a woman marrying a young man. It seems unfair because men marry a young girl even 25 years younger than the man .

I suppose you're right but I hadn't given much thought to it. There is less stigma now I think about age differences between partners.

I think in past times, the man finding himself alone has a harder time of it in some ways, as many men are more helpless on their own, but the same can go for a women, whose husband has paid all of the bills; she might feel equally lost, when he goes first. So, it usually more boils down to the individual circumstances of each case, I think.