That depends on whom you marry: you may end up with someone who doesn't look after you or goes off with someone younger or as you say, dies before you or needs more care than you do.
I've discovered there are no guarantees about this. I'm old and single and in poor health, bu I don't expect my only child to look after me, although she does to some extent.
As someone who was strong and healthy and independent most of my life, I find it hard to ask for help.
You use a lot of absolute language: "definitely", "obviously", "duty". That suggests you have what some people would call firm beliefs. I suspect you actually have a very narrow and limited understanding of the world.
I don't want to be treated like a child when I get old, so I don't want a nanny or for my daughter and I to switch roles, so she's effectively the parent and I'm her kid. That idea physically repulses me.
Lots of older people are fiercely independent, and they tend to live longer. The ones who collapse into passivity tend to lose the will to live because their life is pointless, and they die sooner.
I dont want any child but what in old age ?
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You definitely need someone in old age . Specially when your life-partner dies ...
So in this case :- being married is good . Idk
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That depends on whom you marry: you may end up with someone who doesn't look after you or goes off with someone younger or as you say, dies before you or needs more care than you do.
I've discovered there are no guarantees about this. I'm old and single and in poor health, bu I don't expect my only child to look after me, although she does to some extent.
As someone who was strong and healthy and independent most of my life, I find it hard to ask for help.
Not necessarily.
You use a lot of absolute language: "definitely", "obviously", "duty". That suggests you have what some people would call firm beliefs. I suspect you actually have a very narrow and limited understanding of the world.
I don't want to be treated like a child when I get old, so I don't want a nanny or for my daughter and I to switch roles, so she's effectively the parent and I'm her kid. That idea physically repulses me.
Lots of older people are fiercely independent, and they tend to live longer. The ones who collapse into passivity tend to lose the will to live because their life is pointless, and they die sooner.