On 8/18/2014 3:15 PM, Ema Nymton wrote:
> On 8/18/2014 2:50 PM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>> On 8/17/2014 4:03 PM, graham wrote:
>>> On 17/08/2014 1:24 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 8/17/2014 1:26 PM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You are overlooking the fact that these days it is much more
>>>>> difficult
>>>>> for older men to find women who would jump at the chance of marriage
>>>>> and thereby give them a housekeeper to no doubt replace the one who
>>>>> died. I know that sounds cynical but when you have been used to
>>>>> free
>>>>> housekeeping...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You have a point but the opposite is also true. I know men that
>>>> have to
>>>> fight off the women that are looking for sex and/or financial
>>>> security.
>>>
>>> Especially the latter!
>>
>> There are a number of guys I've known who were completely obsessed with
>> money. All their lives, they kept careful track of their savings and
>> investments. At any moment they could (and would) tell you their net
>> worth. They were extraordinarily cheap. They never had wives or
>> girlfriends, because they counted those as expenses, and unnecessary
>> ones at that. Until they reached retirement age, that is. At that
>> point,
>> they decided having someone look after them as they aged and their
>> health declined was fiscally prudent, and so they went out and found
>> themselves mates.
>
> What he would like to find, is a "nurse with a purse."
>
Yep, one of the guys I know did just that. But more often, they found
women who had no jobs, no savings, who were willing to become
housekeepers/sex partners/caretakers in exchange for room and board
and a vague promise of something more in the future. The promise being
either "I'll marry you" or "I'll remember you in my will", with
neither promise ever being realized.