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What Women Who Are 60 Want

Terry L. Cooper
3 min readMay 27, 2021

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Image by Gennaro Leonardi from Pixabay and modified by author

A guy with his own Life Alert plan and one who has not only all of his funeral arrangements made but prepaid as well.

Two of the first thoughts I had after reading Kim Petersen’s What Women in Their 40s Really Want in a Man last night. And again this morning when I was awake enough to highlight the hell out of it, as I am prone and known to do.

I really knew the story had potential when I noted that Kim Zuch had highlighted something in the very first paragraph. Why? ’Cause, Me+Kim=peas+pods. Okay, and some occasional bail money was thrown in as well (but my lawyer said to learn to “remain silent” which indicates that I was silent at some point but I digress).

But in all seriousness, Kim nailed it. For her and women in their 40s. For those of us who have 20ish years on our counterparts…?

I’ve been unattached since April 2015.

Read that again.

Wanna know what I’ve done in that time?

I’ve moved from DC to Florida, to DC, to Florida (all work-related), and now to Maryland’s east coast. Could I have done that if I had been in a relationship? Maybe. Maybe not. Odds are the “not” would have won out. That’s why I was able to do it. I had no one I had…

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