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Asking Eric: Don’t call us cute just because we’re getting married

Dear Eric: I am newly in love and engaged. My fiancé and I are both in our early 70s. Related Articles Advice | Asking Eric: Readers share responses to letters on loneliness Advice | Asking Eric: I said I’d pay to come to her wedding, but she still said no Advice | Asking Eric: I’m starting to realize my boyfriend is a boring, volatile workaholic Advice | Asking Eric: I went into the photo booth and it changed my life Advice | Asking Eric: They’ve called a meeting about my mom, and I don’t know what to say Quite a few of my friends (not my close friends but others) have responded to the news with: “How cute!” Somehow the fact that we have fallen in love and plan to marry is “cute.” I find this infantilizing, as if we were small children playing dress-up. I realize that people are happy for us and that the marriage of two people past 70 is unexpected and startling in a pleasant way.

 

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