As I entered the diner and quickly surveyed about sixteen men, most over the age of sixty, conversing as they ate breakfast, I immediately assumed that the interview was going to begin at introductions and end with the men disclosing that there wasn’t much to say about sex after sixty except how they fantasize about all the things they could have done in their earlier years with the half naked woman in the television commercial.  But within the first two minutes, the truths were coming at me faster than my brain could process them.  Finishing off the last of his breakfast, sixty-eight year old Brent started off by divulging that he is just as much interested in sex now as he was in his former years, the difference now being he is not always  physically capable of acting on those interests and he is  just fine with that. Between the medications he takes and the decrease in stamina he once had, the desire to have abundant sex has diminished.

He cheated, but she doesn’t leave him. Yet, in relationships where the woman cheats, the relationship often ends in divorce. Why do some women choose to stay with their wandering mate?