Resumo de Whats Love Got To Do With Age?

Like all married couples we have marriage issues but we sort them out. Nothing that was predicted by the people when we got married has come to pass. They said Sula wanted me for my money and was going to detooth me I told them I would detooth him too but you see we are still together. It was talk from young jealous girls," she adds. In Sula, Rehema says she gets a man who understands her and with whom they share responsibilities. What does the younger Sula then get?
Although some of the attraction may be based on the mystique of the older woman, Rehema says indirectly, her appeal to the younger man was based not just on chemistry but also on "the luxury of having a finished person. With her, he got great cooking and a settled home. Still, with Rehema, he also has someone who cares about his future and what will become of him when she dies.
I know I am older so I will die first. But I want to die happy knowing I have left him living comfortably with enough money to last him his life. I don't want other men to laugh at him when I am gone and he has nothing,says Rehema. It is certainly a lot more than the strength, passion, youth and young humor that Rehema gets from her young husband.
According to Rehema, God did not give her children, but he gave her blessings and Sula is one of them. Together, they look after the property they own and their real estates. The couple also owns cows.
Today Rehema is the treasurer for the elderly people's group in her home area. These days, so many young women come for advice on how to have happy and lasting marriages, especially when their husbands are away and I help them," she saying stopping to take a phone call from an 'advice seeker'.
A psychologist at Makerere University puts it down to men having had experience with the Safety age group" but for different reasons, deciding to go for older women.
Author and sex Therapist Lonnie Barbach says the phenomenon of older women dating younger men "results from older women feeling much better about themselves: sexy and attractive. They are taking care of themselves and looking for men who can keep up with them. That often points to younger men.
Barbach, who penned the best-selling books Going the Distance and Turn On, two books about creating satisfying relationships, says that "in past decades a younger man might have been interested, but the older woman would not have thought it was possible. So she would not have acted on it. Today, however, women have a lot more options. The dictates of social norms don't run our lives like they used to".
While the people of Nabweru may have acceptedSula's choice and Rehema's good luck, still, old prejudices have not disappeared entirely. Asking for directions to the home of Rehema and Sula in Nabweru still draws bouts of laughter, giggles and strange comments from the residents. But one thing it has gotten them is popularity. Sula yewangulila ekyana (meaning Sula won himself a babe),commented one resident.

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