Oh Heeven, I know she doesn't think of marrying me often if at all. I just happen to believe it is a great idea so far.
No idea if you are a man or a woman Heeven but I have the ability to see things through the eyes of people in different situations. I pride myself in being able to do this. One of the reasons I have been a success in life and not had many problems.
I am pretty sure that right about now if not pretty quick, "Susan" is going to feel alone in life, regardless of how successful she is she will begin to feel like a failure (that's what happens to divorcees when they get old) and then I am going to look even better to her than I do now. It won't be the "Uncle Andy Rooney" joke we now have going now. I will simply become "Andy."
As for myself I do not have to get married but I will feel much better about myself if I do and I will providing I can be sure it will not crimp my independence or heaven forbid my economics. If you know what I mean; money.
Any way you cut it, too me there is nothing more pathetic to watch than a geezer that is in every way normal in appearance and action grow old without a wife. A complete woman. Not just a mistress or for god's sake a mistress-housekeeper. I already had that unpleasant experience.
As we spend more days together I am certain "Susan" will become more malleable with age but for god's sakes I don't want it to be of such a long duration she becomes an old woman before we marry. If we go past her 50th birthday I won't marry her. It would be pointless.