Word: companionship
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...Your story "Romance and the Aged" [June 4] seems to imply that old folks are living in a sexual paradise. Perhaps some desire for kindness and companionship does influence these alliances. But basically, they are encouraged by the idea that the old lady has done no work for her Social Security, and it will be snatched away by the Government the moment she goes to the altar again...
...lengthy space voyage would also probably aggravate psychological problems. After only three weeks in orbit, the astronauts were already bemoaning the isolation. Kerwin, only half-humorously, identified himself as "your lonely science pilot who is hungering for human companionship...
Rather than marry, many elderly men and women pair off in what one geriatric counselor calls "unmarriages of convenience"-relationships established for companionship and sex but never formalized because, as married couples, they would receive less income from Social Security and other retirement benefits than they do by remaining single...
...people interpret it as being totally pessimistic, but its ending (the pair walking in silence alongside the caravan) and the memories of the clown, Frost (in the flashback near the beginning and when Frost relates a dream at the end) point to the life-giving power of resignation and companionship...
...plot is mainly an excuse for a series of monologues. Two people who want to be tenants of the same barren apartment meet in it. They gradually spill out their past lives, the failures of their marriages, and their desires for companionship. If Last Tango in Paris without sex is imaginable, this is it. But a third woman is always present and the two potential roommates are in their late fifties, maybe eighties. Both are women and there's no sex in the whole thing except for the various tales of use and misuse at husbands' hands...