PERSPECTIVES → FAMILY FIRST INBOX Issue 885 · November 10, 2021

Family First Inbox: Issue 767

"Unfortunately, the term (and concept) 'psychosomatic' has gotten a bad rap"

Family First Inbox: Issue 767
“Unfortunately, the term (and concept) ‘psychosomatic’ has gotten a bad rap”
Single at 71 [With Flying Colors / Issue 766]

I wasn’t the world’s youngest kallah the first time, a 26-year-old marrying a 30-year-old. But after 45 years of marriage, the last five of which were filled with the endless stream of doctors and hospitalizations my husband needed, I found myself single again.

Yes, I was 71. But after the shloshim, friends and relatives urged me to start to consider looking for a new relationship. You’re still so young! So pretty! So youthful! So funny! And, thanks to Shevi, so blonde!

Corona gave me the opportunity to really think about this, and compare it to dating the first time around. Here are some of my comparisons:

Then: Does he go to minyan three times a day?

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