Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Frank Powers discuss why older adults are finding new relationships later in life. The average woman becomes widowed between 57 and 59, and modern seniors stay healthy into their 70s and 80s, making sustained partnerships possible when earlier expectations never imagined remarriage.
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when Frank and I get together with people, they want to get into relationship. When they see us, it's much more profound than my saying by myself, saying, oh, well, you know, it's great. You know, you really might want to think about being— I mean, it's almost like seeing is believing. I mean, it's like, it's great if that's what you want, if you want to go through, you know, and when I was a kid, nobody expected a woman to get married. And they were 60. I mean, you just didn't expect— I didn't expect my grandmother. My grandfather died at 55. Did I expect her to get married? Heavens no.
Now people are living in, you know, into their 70s and 80s and very healthy. It's not that they're not— they're living, but they're not infirm. They can have a relationship and they can enjoy doing things together.
They can have passion and purpose. Yeah. But you know, this, I think this is a pretty startling statistic. The average woman will be widowed at 57 to 59.