Older Women Don’t Want to Live With Their Male Partners. Here’s Why
They’re just not interested in giving up their sense of freedom to have companionship
A rift is emerging between single older women and the men they date, according to a recent Globe and Mail article. Increasingly, 60-something men are discovering that women their age are all in for having a male partner, but they just don’t want to live with them, preferring to be LATs — live apart together partners. As one 70-something woman quoted in the article says, “I don’t want to take care of anybody. I want to take care of me.”
Who can blame her, given all the caregiving women typically do?
But that isn’t exactly accurate — just because you live apart from your romantic partner doesn’t mean you aren’t caring and loving and kind toward them. It just means that you aren’t wrapped up in all the daily minutiae of their life and space, which allows you the space and time to focus on each other.
Although live apart together relationships are getting more media attention, they’re still a hard concept for many to wrap their head around, which is why the article sparked nearly 500 comments, some of which were gathered in a follow-up article. Delightfully, most of them were positive.
