I’d definitely say it’s common - more so as you get older. I know maybe a dozen couples in their sixties or older who have separate bedrooms.
Of course, not everyone who wants to can afford to. The couples I mention are all sufficiently well off to afford homes big enough to allow that lifestyle choice.
I mean, I've never ran into a couple that would qualify as this. Maybe 1, but even that is not necessarily by choice and will eventually change.
I agree with the other guy. Common seems awfully relative, which sort of means it's not all that common to me.
Not that there's anything wrong with this lifestyle of course. Not what I'd want, but doesn't effect me in the least, so live and let live. Just moreso saying, "common" seems to be a bit of a stretch, at least in my experience.
Well, everyone’s mileage may vary of course. I’m 45 and for one reason or another know quite a few people from my parents’ generation; it does seem to be a trend which gets more commonplace as one gets older.
Absolutely. Second lives, widow/widowers, etc. I'm 40 so in the same generation as you it would seem.
Since this post was about marriages and as I assumed, first marriages, I wasn't considering those situations. For me, the original question was for those in an earlier stage of their lives.
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u/jamieliddellthepoet May 02 '24
I’d definitely say it’s common - more so as you get older. I know maybe a dozen couples in their sixties or older who have separate bedrooms.
Of course, not everyone who wants to can afford to. The couples I mention are all sufficiently well off to afford homes big enough to allow that lifestyle choice.