Excellent and needful to be said. We are only slowly beginning to adjust to our new longevity as individuals and as a species. What “worked” to hold a relationship together for 20 or 30 years can hardly be expected to do the trick for thinking individuals who are in it for the long haul, can it? Sorry, there’s just so much that friction can do.

Maybe for some it’s enough, but as a person of mind, spirit, soul as well as body, I know that maintaining the same frantic, febrile pace of our fecund years will not necessarily create the intimacy required for the years beyond.

On a wider note, I see those bonus decades as a chance for the species to make some real progress, but not if we just keep doing the same things we thought were terrific in our 20s and 30s.

I doubt humanity can boink its way to glory.