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Excellent points, all. And it sounds like Mrs. RobRoy is a lucky lady. Good luck to the both of you, and God Bless you both w/many years yet of good health and prosperity.

Regarding the aging of men and women: When men get older, they look like Sean Connery. When women get older, they look like Sean Connery.

That was funny! Although, lately, Sean looks like 10 miles of bad road.

>>That was funny! Although, lately, Sean looks like 10 miles of bad road<<

Yeah, the joke was a lot funnier and a lot more relevant about ten years ago. Time is not very kind to anybody who tries to get by on their looks alone. Everyone needs an "alternate route."

I'll throw this out too. Most people who marry people old enough to be their parent are in for a rude awakening. The fact is that a healthy 55 year old can keep up fairly well with a typical 25 year old. Problem is, the 55 year old is headed for a "no matter what you do, you're gonna be spending a lot of time in a rocking chair" in the fairly near future. What, then, is this persons ~40 year old, healthy spouse gonna do?

It is a very slow health decline (slightly sloping plateau) from your mid-twenties on until you fall off a health "cliff" at some point. If you are on the front end of the plateau and you marry someone close to the back end, you are in for a very hard life when they "relatively soon" fall off the cliff. It will seem like you married your grandparent more than your parent.