{"id":36666,"date":"2018-10-18T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36666"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:39:27","slug":"qotd-relationships-with-much-younger-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/qotd-relationships-with-much-younger-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Relationships with much younger partners"},"content":{"rendered":"

A contemporary of mine, after a number of marriages, found a girlfriend less than half his age of a transcendent pneumatic beauty who hung on his every word \u2014 and dumped her after a couple of months. Why, I asked \u2014 she was perfect! \u201cToo many things we didn\u2019t have in common,\u201d he said sadly. Like what? \u201cWell, the Eighties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings us to sex. Nicola has just exclaimed with unusual force that she has never slept with a 60-year-old and she\u2019s not planning on starting now. Nobody wants to think about 60-year-olds doing it, least of all 60-year-olds. Another contemporary pointed out that it wasn\u2019t finding the first grey pubic hair on yourself that was the doom-laden shock, it was finding it on the person you were sleeping with.<\/p>\n

A.A. Gill, “Life at 60”, Sunday Times<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A contemporary of mine, after a number of marriages, found a girlfriend less than half his age of a transcendent pneumatic beauty who hung on his every word \u2014 and dumped her after a couple of months. Why, I asked \u2014 she was perfect! \u201cToo many things we didn\u2019t have in common,\u201d he said sadly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[598,139,43],"class_list":["post-36666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-aging","tag-psychology","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9xo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36667,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36666\/revisions\/36667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}