by Kate Johns

Created on: January 21, 2009

It was a major shock to our entire family. My husband's Uncle was getting re-married. We all sat in stunned silence when my Mother in law announced the strange but true news to us. My husband's Uncle had recently buried his first wife. We all knew he was lonely and that he was not himself for the entire year since my husband's Aunt had died with a long battle with cancer, but getting married to someone no one knew! And I have to mention here that he was over seventy at the time of his engagement.

What was going on? Had the world stopped turning? Would Brick come back from the dead to love Euthensia ever again? I felt like I was suddenly thrust into the depths of a soap opera plot. My husband's Uncle of many years, his entire life, was getting re-married, and the shocker was, he was old. There's no good way to say it, he was indeed over the hill. He was way past middle age. He was older than dirt, okay.

And he was getting re-married at his age? Besides the kick in the face of his getting re-married , and the second strange but true fact that he was over seventy at the time, was that he was too old to get married again. I think it took us all a year to get used to the fact that he was committing this incredible feat of daring. Besides why would you want to get married ever again when you had already been married for over fifty years?

When you think about it then after this amazing feat of daring was accomplished and you view the happy couple, you realize that it is never too old to get married. Your heart swells when you realize that even a couple in their seventies can find true love, and get married. It's a really good feeling to see two older people in love with each other that are holding hands and stealing kisses when everyone leaves the room. And they even call each other Honey, and Sweetheart.

Many times after a couple has been married for a long time they no longer hold hands, steal kisses or even talk to each other for that matter!

It is never too late to fall in love and get married. These are matters of the heart afterall, and the heart is a fickle friend. Your heart is in control of your emotions and there is nothing you can do about falling in love at an older age. It happens! Age has no barriers when it comes to affairs of the heart. This means that there is hope for all of us. There is hope for a woman who feels that her time is past for having children and that she needs to fall in love and get married right now, before it is too late. There is hope

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