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The divorce boom after 60 years: “I finally live the youth that I never could have”

2022-12-27T16:32:03.152Z


Retirees are more and more numerous to choose separation to grant themselves a new life. For women, this choice reveals all the inequalities accumulated during their career.


“Acknowledgment of failure”.

At 70, that's how Sara sums up her love life.

Married for the first time at the age of 20, because "at the time a woman was married or nothing", she divorced after 25 years of marriage and three children.

She remarried at 48, "without love at first sight, surely so as not to remain alone and also under pressure from my parents", she analyzes today.

Her second union works as long as Sara is working.

Then comes retirement and the projects that go with it.

We're going to the South, to this house with a swimming pool that we dreamed of together.

In the summer, we make schedules to accommodate the children and grandchildren of each other.

We are parents, grandparents, blended families, but the couple does not really exist.

"We didn't share much.

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Source: lefigaro

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