Perhaps a 75 year old with one foot in the grave might have more in common with his 55 year old counter part. But I'd think with this situation I'd be concerned that the younger one is looking for a payday. I can't imagine that a pair of wrinkly balls or tube sock knockers would turn anyone on, when they can have a the same version or even younger model. And I can't see changing an adult diaper or feeding pudding to a reduced mobile or cognitive person being a goal.
bobtail, why is it I find myself disagreeing with you so often.
Raised by different grandmothers I suppose.
The first part of your post didn't necessarily provide anything truly objectionable, but that last paragraph REALLY set my hackles in full stand-up mode.
When my wife took ill this last time she didn't make it, but if the doctors had miraculously been able to save her life it would have meant she would have lived every day having to change colostomy bags, and diapers, and lawdy knows what other physical infirmities I would have had to endure with her.
But you know what else?
I DON'T CARE !!!
I married her because of a deep and abiding love burrowed into my bones.
I promised to love and cherish her until death do us part in the marriage ceremony and in the promise I made to her father when I asked for his permission to ask for her hand in marriage.
And I meant every damn word of it.
I stayed with her when she lost her kidneys and the year of 3x/week dialysis.
I stayed with her through the devastatingly expensive cost of a transplant ($1.1 Million nearly broke the bank & wiped out any hope of a more comfortable retirement).
I stayed with her through 17 YEARS of all the medical complications & doctors' visits of living with a transplant.
And as sure as peanut butter sticks to your tongue I would have stuck with her through colostomy bags, diaper changes, and whatever else came with the good fortune of spending even 1 more day with her, albeit hopefully 20 years or more.
BECAUSE I LOVED HER, and nothing, nothing at all, could ever destroy that.
At least not in my heart, and those problems would have only shown her that I loved her even more than she ever realized - though lawdy I told her often enough.
Edited by
OldCoot
on Thu 01/08/26 09:52 PM