Can love happened at any age? at 58 also? actually my mom is widow, so one person proposes her so it’s good?

  • kindnesskills@literature.cafe
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    Of course it can, multiple times, at any age.

    So can romance scams, so it doesn’t automatically mean every proposal is good!

    If she knows the person in person, they’ve know each other for a long time (imho two years is when people start knowing if it’s love or infatuation/lust), and they love her and she loves them back and she wants to marry them (and imo if they’ve tried to lived together for a while to know their lifestyls are compatible), and it’s not just based on fear of being alone; it’s all good. As it is at every age.

    But she’s also an adult and knows her heart better than you or I, so she can decide for herself what’s good.

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      Well, lonely widows / widowers are prime targets for romance scams, that is true.

      They are also prime dating material for other single people their age.

      The hard part is being open enough to have fun and if possible, find love, but careful enough to not get scammed.

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    Of course it can. And 58 isn’t ancient, she still has a long time left on this earth and deserves to find someone to share it with.

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    My mom’s dating at 62 and she seems happy, so. 😊 I just make sure she takes no bullshit, because women from that generation are often raised to take shit (read: abuse).

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    My mother remarried later in life. She met my stepfather at a widow and widowers club and they were together for about 30 years before she died. He recently married again at the age of 92. He was younger than my mother, but his new wife is younger than him, at 70. She’s younger than me! They met through church, I believe.

    That’s the key I think - meeting in person, through social clubs and activities or hobbies.

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    yeah, but it’s less likely to happen as you get older because your hormones are raging less and less as you age.

    people are most apt to ‘fall in love’ when their are hormoned up.

    i personally find myself hardly ever attracted to the opposite sex anymore, but 20 years ago it happened regularly, and when I was a teenager I was crushing on a new person happened every month.