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3. The power of “you do you”
In your sixties, respect isn’t about manners. It’s about independence. It took you half your life to develop your unique characteristics, opinions, and methods of doing things like sorting out the garage. The last thing any elderly person wants is to be considered a project.
Mature romance does not involve the rewriting of a narrative. It won’t involve changing your views on anything from politics to nutrition to child-rearing. It recognizes the “whole human story,” flaws and all.
It takes quiet courage when both parties have no need to dominate or control one another. It comes with the awareness that two individuals need not converge into one personality for a connection. You may have your own hobbies, while she has her own hobbies, but there comes a point where you meet halfway to swap stories.
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4. Unforced tenderness
There’s this cultural thing that makes us believe that romance is reserved for the young. What we forget along the way is that tenderness does not stop happening after a certain age. It just isn’t as loud as before.
At 60 years old, tenderness is a touch on the shoulder when strolling through the grocery store, a word whispered knowing that another individual is under pressure, and even that look that you receive while doing nothing extraordinary.
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