tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568814.post770477454863953605..comments2023-07-20T03:25:34.929-07:00Comments on Naked at Our Age - Joan Price - Sex & Aging Views & News: "How we write about love depends on how old we are"Joan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06423337694076541862noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568814.post-35331900832796093422015-02-21T05:14:09.585-08:002015-02-21T05:14:09.585-08:00Finding love again? Indeed.
Half way thru your 5...Finding love again? Indeed.<br /><br />Half way thru your 50+ book Joan; loving it. Yes and so much yes. That's what I wrote in the margin about whether it was worth ending, closing off with kindness a dead marriage of 28 years; to find love again. And sex again. I lost all material things, my home and and church and more. All very much worth it. Loved the spirit of your When Intimacy Ends chapter. Married again 8 yrs now penniless but happy, I make my beloved promise she will love again if and when I die first. I make her say it out loud: "I promise." Life is too short to love without intimacy and connection and sexual joy. Joan, you inspire!<br /> -Dan, 67Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568814.post-8335186546605072602015-02-15T14:29:40.029-08:002015-02-15T14:29:40.029-08:00What a touching read, and oh so very true. I had s...What a touching read, and oh so very true. I had settled into life as a single senior, happy to have survived the wars of learning hard lessons. I was keeping my eyes open for a man to enjoy being with but felt adamantly unwilling to live with a man. "After all", I said to myself, "why put myself through all the compromises and leave the comfortable security of living my single life just as I chose to?"<br />Then I came across Alan. We have some differences that could have been deal breakers, but we also have a bond of love that overrides any other considerations.<br />I am now in a place of feeling secure in true love - secure in the knowledge that he loves me just as I am and appreciates me just as I appreciate him.<br />The perspective at this age is so very different from when I was in my 20's or after. Love is so very sweet when you find the right one, regardless of when it is. But finding it at age 68 confirms the Universe was listening. I am listening too - to every nuance of finally finding true love.<br />Never give up being open to finding love.<br />~julieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568814.post-52326898581183314472015-02-15T08:53:22.324-08:002015-02-15T08:53:22.324-08:00Yes and yes. Gratitude. And, the fear is gone. ...Yes and yes. Gratitude. And, the fear is gone. At 67 I've lived long enough to to have another lover next door cuckold me, or divorce take my love away. I know love is NOW. The Man In The Dark Hood will take some day and I/she will be alone again. The future is knowable now. And sex is better, love is sweeter in this knowing.. I've never lived with less fear, gotten laid so often, felt so loved, tried so many wonderfully nasty things with her!. What you say in your books is true. It gets better. <br /> -DanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568814.post-29136908049339627582015-02-14T22:11:31.169-08:002015-02-14T22:11:31.169-08:00Thanks to my wonderful husband of over 50 years, I...Thanks to my wonderful husband of over 50 years, I live in gratitude for each day we have together, but also with the realization which you've described, Joan, that it's only through amazing good luck that we found each other and have shared such happiness. My message to younger people is not to fear that their love will grow stale, but to keep their eyes open for the many older people they'll see walking arm in arm or smiling across a restaurant table. Seeing is believing the joy you, Sally, and many others have expressed on this website and in your excellent books.Toni Goldfarbhttp://www.tonigoldfarb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17568814.post-30673060807043903652015-02-14T20:19:58.943-08:002015-02-14T20:19:58.943-08:00Joan, thank you for this beautiful post. And I lov...Joan, thank you for this beautiful post. And I love seeing the photos of you and Robert, so happy together. Although I too miss celebrating Valentine's Day with my loving and beloved husband, who died five years ago, I feel so grateful to have had all our years together -- almost 54 -- and to have enjoyed such a wonderful life with him.Sally Wendkos Oldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04987139235542898094noreply@blogger.com