Surviving on $1,800 a month in Social Security, she died looking for a place to live

[valleyrogue]

24. "Both my wife and I." THERE is the problem in a nutshell and why you have NO credibility on this issue.

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You have a spouse as a buffer and a source of income, presumably a working spouse or a spouse who did work. You have absolutely NO concept whatsoever what it is like to be an older single woman in this country. Married people do NOT have a clue what it is like. Your "advice" is so utterly clueless, it is enraging to me as a woman of nearly 70 years of age and didn't prostitute herself in marriage to have that higher standard of living afforded it. For that is what is implied when people lecture single women for being poor in old age. This is what is required of most women who get a higher SS benefit than I did. They had to eff a man legally in order to get a higher benefit, and it is ENCOURAGED by federal law.

I have a brother who has been married 40 years, and when they were working, they literally put ALL of her paycheck in the bank and they lived off his income, which was great pay. They easily amassed a million or more, which isn't unheard of with married couples. It is nothing for married people to have this, plus "own" a house. The great majority of women have to trade their bodies via marriage in order to get that lifestyle. It doesn't come without a price.

Don't lecture single women on something you know little about and will never know about.