Since her 2014 study, Sue Malta has also focused…

On the other hand, LAT arrangements can simply be a way to preserve a new-found freedom. Says Malta: “For a lot of women, it’s the first time in their life they’ve never had to answer to anybody, the first time they’ve never had to consider someone else’s needs within their own house or care for somebody else. You can see the attraction of that.”

Even though McCarthy and Marsh are Bor in Russia women now married, they still maintain their own apartments in different suburbs. She spends three or four nights a week at his place and the rest of the time by herself at her own, a choice that is more hers than his.

“I like to come over here,” McCarthy says, sweeping a hand over the faux-mink throw on the long sofa, “get into my plushy robe, scrub my make-up off and watch movies, or read. Warren isn’t a reader or a movie watcher. My hairdresser is over here, my dentist, all of that world you build up over time. I’ve been here since 1988. Your home is your home.”

“Picking a partner at this age, it’s like, ‘I don’t need money, I don’t need sperm, I can choose to be here … or not.’ It’s very liberating.”

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