However, deciding to cohabitate later in life might open to the door to judgment from more than one generation of people who might be outraged by the decision, Eng says.
“When you were younger and you’re making choices about the relationship, you had to worry about what your parents thought. Those were the people who were judging you,” she says. “But now when you’re older, in addition to your peers, you have to worry about what your children think.”
Hopkyns and her partner have five grown children between them, and she says they were lucky that when they decided to sell their individual homes and buy one together four years into their relationship, their kids and her parents were in full support.
“I can’t imagine this occurring in my parents’ age,” she says.
Keywords: love, relationships
