Yes. Rebounding from the mental and physical effects of infidelity in later life is so much harder. I went through this at 41. Now 11 yrs. later. I know, deep down, I know I cannot make a complete recovery this time. And I do everything that I can to try. There is too much deep damage. And with older age comes the inevitable ageing problems, arthritis, and loss of hormones, gray hair, and weight gain no matter how hard you try. Life just gets harder with age in most aspects.
As a girl ages, her market value decreases, and often fairly rapidly.
A woman’s market value is at her highest between the ages of 16 and 25 (possibly up to 30 if she really takes care of herself and is lucky). During this age range, women are at their most attractive to men. They can rely on their looks and ‘sexiness’ to attract guys (and, often, manipulate men for their own gain).
As a women reaches 30 and beyond, her market value rapidly decreases and she becomes less attractive to men. Once she reaches the menopause, most men look at her as someone to date if they don’t have the “stuff” to turn a younger woman’s eye.
Contrast this with how men age and what ageing means to a man’s market value….
As a man gets towards 30, his market value rapidly increases. He starts to look more manly in his appearance, and he starts to act more manly in his personality because he is maturing. Often, he has more career and financial success too. All these traits increase his market value and therefore his attractiveness towards women.
A guy in his 30s, 40s and 50s and sometimes even older can still be massively attractive to women and date women who are much, much younger than himself. But a woman in her 30s, 40s, 50s and over is going to find attracting a man much harder work.
See, women have the power when they’re younger, but after 30 the power balance shifts rapidly and a women loses her seductive power, whereas a man GAINS his power.
There is a saying, ‘Men age like fine wine, women age like milk’.
And as someone already pointed out, ALOT of older men leave their long-term wife for a younger woman and the “stuff” he has to catch a younger trophy woman was usually gotten with the help of the “old” wife.
It is just the way of the world.