Comments on: Oliver and Fawn, together at last

By: Linda S Fox

Linda S Fox — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:59:06 +0000

Aside from financial and medical benefits, they have a history.
As people age, many of them revert to thinking about their lives when they were young.
For many, that was the most intensely emotional time of their life. Often, those are the people who go to reunions, reminisce about the past, and generally are most connected to those who shared it.
My husband is like that. Me, I don’t live in the past. I’m more involved with today and tomorrow’s events.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:02:44 +0000

Marriage invokes a commitment to caring for each other that shacking up doesn’t.

There are also financial and medical benefits to having a legal relationship (although occasionally the financial situation cuts the other direction).

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:18:40 +0000

OK. I forgot, she would have to wear a scarlet “A” on her dress.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:24:44 +0000

@Ray:why bother? Just shack up, nobody is going to be horified.

One of my WWII-generation great uncles did this, and nobody was horrified. They were together 20 years or so, and after she died, he said not marrying her was his greatest regret, and he was always reminded of it because on her tombstone she has another man’s name.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:16:45 +0000

Just shack up, nobody is going to be horified.
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Maybe they have motors apart from a regard for appearances.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:15:20 +0000

My brother was fond of the PBS series Last Tango in Halifax. I could never take an interest in any of the characters myself.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:57:36 +0000

I recently had a divorced friend in his 80s marry an old high school sweetheart. I wondered, why bother? Just shack up, nobody is going to be horified. As Hillary Clinton said about Bengazi, at this point what does it matter? I wish them happiness.

By: F

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:27:34 +0000

I too have high school classmates who married others in college, then the two couples continued to see each other socially. The respective spouses passed away in the last decade (IOW, some 50+ years after HS graduation) and married each other. The husband of this second union passed just last year. She continues to post on Facebook, and I see now that she continues to visit with many of our mutual classmates — mostly women, but then the female side of our HS class now outnumbers the male side by a wide margin.

By: gwynmir

gwynmir — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:26:10 +0000

Thank you, neo and Philip Sells!

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:22:52 +0000

Amy, fantastic! 😀

And gwynmir, your story is great! I’m glad for you!

When I saw the headline about these two skitter by the other day, I had to take a look and remind myself what Fawn Hall had looked like. I’m sure I saw her on TV at least briefly during the hearings, but couldn’t remember her face. I hated North at the time, but had to admire his candor when he admitted the big thing. I mellowed later, but never got into his later material, the quality of which I have no particular reason to doubt sight unseen. Their marriage does sound like a good story, though.