In the first two years after their separation, Felicitas Wepper was happy. She felt free and could finally do anything she wanted. At some point, however, she noticed that she was no longer invited when couples who were friends met. “Because I would probably have been the fifth wheel for them,” says the 53-year-old family doctor. The Corona period hasn't made things any better, and now she sometimes feels pretty lonely: on weekends and holidays, when her twelve-year-old son is with his father, and on her birthday. When Russia invaded Ukraine, she thought: What if NATO gets involved? Then you are alone with your child. “There would be no one standing next to me and supporting me,” she says.
Sabine Wilmert can't always enjoy being single either. “I actually feel like a teenager,” says the 55-year-old passionate sailor. “My children recently said: 'Man, Mom, now you're living all alone again, like you used to.'” She thinks that's nice from time to time, but in the long run she'd rather have a partner again. The problem is: She longs for a man her age who knows what he wants and is committed to life. And whose children, like their own, are happy for their father when he has a new partner. “But such men,” she knows from bitter experience, “are looking for a woman who is ten to twelve years younger than them, and they find her, even quite easily, if they have money and a nice professional position.”
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