Quote Originally Posted by Sir_Russell View Post
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Bare with me as I ramble, please. First as a teen I freaked my friends and a lot of adults I proposed that there should be 3 marriages for each person. The first should be any old person say 45 or more to a young person, giving the older person a means to recapture youth and drive. Allowing the young person to learn from one with experience and knowledge to be treated tenderly, protected and loved. I felt that would be a far trade off and I guess I still do. The second would have been 30 to 30 to allow each the passion of like experiences also it is a time for children so that they are raised by people that have reached a sufficeint level of maturity to be up to that task. Third would be 65 and over to another 65 and older. That allows for that laid back time where physical drives are waning and the companiship of one with similar life experiences and values.
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An interesting idea! (I really think so, even though I, as a strictly monogamous guy do not agree with it.) However, I would have thought the third marriage would be with one much younger, as the other side of the first marriage. How else could the young people marry an older, experienced person?

I'd also say that many people in the second type of marriage naturally follow each other into the third kind of marriage.