Somewhat to my surprise I married in my late 30s, have now been married for 30 plus years. My wife and I still had some growing up to do but on the whole it’s been good and we have two good kids to show for it which makes all the difference. My son and daughter in law are coming up on five years of marriage and are doing a pretty good job of it–possibly better than we did at that age.
That said, I would not take that gamble again, for the same cost/benefit reasons. The respect for women that I once had in my younger days is long gone–based on daily observations. That is probably grossly unfair to the occasional grown up, accomplished women–but they are pretty well extinct in my part of the world. Had the microwave oven been invented a few years earlier I might never have married at all. Sex is nice, but nobody ever died from lack of it. I’m sure that I could have consoled myself with a Corvette or Cessna 185 and been okay in the end.
In all fairness, my wife is a gem. Not anybody remotely typical, but she can live with who I am. and that can’t be easy.
