1/17/2023 0 Comments Bill and melinda gates![]() “I think the statistics are going to be shocking,” she says, which may be good news for divorce lawyers. Kaffel anticipates a major surge of divorce among older couples in the forthcoming months and years. “People are going to want to get re-energised and move on,” she predicts. If anything, she says, the various lockdowns of the past 14 months have only added to the desire to seize hold of life. “I think it’s something about getting towards another stage in life and people thinking it’s their last chance to find happiness,” she says.Ĭolin Firth and Livia Giuggioli, who split after 22 years of marriage. She estimates that she’s seeing two or three times the number of over-60s compared with 20 years ago. It’s a cultural shift that Dawn Kaffel has also witnessed up close in her position as a relationship counsellor in London. But just as we’re told that 60 is the new 50, which is in turn the new 40, this increasing sense of ageing youthfulness comes with an appetite for change. It used to be thought that by the Gateses’ age most of our growing was done. The Gateses’ statement explaining their decision – they no longer “believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives” – suggests the reservations won out. With life-expectancy continuing to extend deep into the 80s, that’s an awful lot of potential time to be spent with a partner about whom one has nagging reservations. ![]() ![]() The other divorce-driver is the prospect of a long retirement. ![]()
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