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Why Older Single Women Should Not Remarry…

mitzi.flyte
3 min readJun 1, 2021

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I speak from personal experience — unfortunately.

Unfortunately (again) I fell in love with a handsome, intelligent, charming older man who eventually asked me to marry him.

I discussed this with my psychologist at the time and she advised me against it, speaking from her mother’s experience on marrying a widower.

Her mother moved away from her family — to Florida where he wanted to live When he became ill, his children did nothing to help her — not even a visit. She took complete care of him after each illness. Afterwards they hardly called. Why should they? He was HER problem now.

So I advise my single, widowed or divorce friends not to remarry, don’t do what I did — for your own health and sanity.

I moved away from family and friends and into his large two-story old farm house with a fifty-year old addition along with a fifty year old bathroom, not good for an elderly person or two.

His house was so full of his acquisitions that I was very lucky to have a blank wall for my bookcases.

And now we’re struggling to renovate the bathroom.

And I’m having many physical issues but my husband is not very helpful. I hired someone to do the cleaning. I can’t stand up long enough to cook — my daughter…

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mitzi.flyte
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Written by mitzi.flyte

A 70+ year old retired RN who’s following her 60 year old dream of being a writer, one interested in everything unusual. www.facebook.com/MitziFlyteAuthor

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