At age eighty-five, one man in the study described the pleasure of his three-decades-long second marriage as “really just being together. Share each other’s lives and our children’s lives. Snuggle on cold nights.” One woman, after fifty years of marriage, said the secret was that they were best friends. “There’s a physical relationship. It’s not quite what it was when we were young, but the main thing is, I adore him. More than I ever did. We laugh a lot, we laugh at ourselves, and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. I don’t know how we got here, but it’s wonderful. Equally important, we
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