{"id":80858,"date":"2018-02-15T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=80858"},"modified":"2018-06-18T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T12:53:59","slug":"love-it-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/love-it-may-surprise-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Love: It May Surprise You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReader, I married him\u201d\u2014the classic line from <em>Jane Eyre<\/em>\u2014may have been the main referent for unusual marriages for more than 100 years. Well, reader, I married him, too, but not until I was 49. What constitutes an unusual marriage constantly shifts.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, I represent a trend. The U.S. Census Bureau has shown that the average age of marriage has been rising for decades. The census doesn\u2019t identify the causes, but the average age has risen more for women than for men, so one speculation is that more women are going to college and putting their careers first. More generally, younger generations are more likely to be children of divorce and therefore approach marriage with more caution.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"float-left size-thumbnail img-fluid wp-image-80861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-150x150.gif\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-400x400.gif 400w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-360x360.gif 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"float-left size-thumbnail img-fluid wp-image-80861 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-400x400.gif 400w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-360x360.gif 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/02\/UCF-Forum-logo-1-150x150.gif\">Nonetheless, the average age of first marriage for women is just 25.1 years and for men just 26.8 years. I say \u201cjust\u201d because they seem awfully young to me, but, of course, throughout my 30s and 40s I frequently faced the question of why I wasn\u2019t married. In fact, I withstood frequent drillings on the part of befuddled family, friends and even strangers. The inconceivability of my aloneness perhaps should have been a comfort\u2014at least I had no obvious reasons that no one would ask, right?<\/p>\n<p>I had given up on having children many years before. At the age of 11, my diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes came with dour-faced warnings in doctors\u2019 offices and books that my parents should warn any suitor that I might not be able to carry off a healthy pregnancy. Even though the stats in this regard improved dramatically by the time I reached child-bearing age, I hadn\u2019t been one to waste my time on fruitless pursuits, even as a child. With my steely eyed personality, I started early to plan other ways to make my life meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I wasn\u2019t always alone. I dated, I shacked up, I broke up, then I started all over again. I never consciously marked marriage off my list of possibilities for my life, but like so many other single women, I lost my optimism. Almost everywhere I turned, another article would shriek the fact that past a certain age a woman\u2019s chance of roping a man into a commitment dwindled. By the time I turned 40, then 45, I figured it would never happen and did my best to make peace with that fact.<\/p>\n<p>I even tried an online dating site\u2014the one with the complex couples-matching procedures purported to find someone just for you. In a five-state area, it found me exactly zero good matches, which I found hilarious even then. When you\u2019re a weird girl, when you have a chronic illness, when you have a Ph.D., when you won\u2019t give up your cats if a guy doesn\u2019t like them\u2014well, fuggedaboutit. I admit, I did have five cats.<\/p>\n<p>It was around this time that I met Bruce at UCF faculty orientation. He was as new to Florida as I was and perhaps even a little bewildered since he came from Canada. We discovered that we shared academic interests, became friendly colleagues, then good friends. He first asked me out in the stairwell of Colbourn Hall, where we both had offices.<\/p>\n<p>I said no\u2014not because I didn\u2019t already adore him, but because I was still in the process of extricating myself from a dating relationship that had not gone well. Bruce and I stayed friends, but it was another year or so before we had our first official date. It resembled so many other good first dates\u2014mine, his, yours, dates at 15, dates at 20, dates at 35, at 65 or 70, dates of the widowed, divorced, and single\u2014that awareness of one\u2019s pulse, the intensified sense of smell that allows another person\u2019s presence to be intoxicating, the blips of shyness, the connection that we so often compare to electric current.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the moment, a few months later, that I thought I might marry Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>On a sweltering summer evening, we had a dinner reservation at a trendy downtown Orlando restaurant where the parking was terrible. Just as we pulled into a spot, a woman started knocking desperately on Bruce\u2019s car window. Immediately, he rolled it down. Huffing and puffing, the sweaty woman choked out that she was having an asthma attack and needed to get home to her oxygen. But she had missed the bus, and it would be another hour until the next one came. \u201cNo one will take me,\u201d she gasped out.<\/p>\n<p>Without any hesitation, Bruce told her to get into the back seat, and off we went, following her spare directions into the heart of the poorest neighborhood in town. Within 10 minutes, we had her to her door. Ten easy minutes that no one else had been willing to take.<\/p>\n<p>Something I think of as mature love rose immediately through me that evening. I knew that Bruce was someone I could trust to do well by me and by the world we share. It\u2019s not the love of 20-year-olds, or even of 25-year-olds, and I know that, strong as it felt, it might not have worked out for us. Although the statistics show a rising average age of marriage, they also show that more and more people never marry at all, by either choice or default. And Bruce had never lived with even one cat, after all.<\/p>\n<p>I could just as easily have stayed single my entire life, and I never want to give false hopes to those who remain single and wish they weren\u2019t. Let me say, though, that romantic love can happen at any age.<\/p>\n<p>And I never want to make any single person feel as though the loves of their lives\u2014their children from former relationships, their nieces and nephews, their family and friends, their pets\u2013aren\u2019t just as important as my love for my husband. They are. Maybe because I stayed single for so long, I know this as deeply as they do and value my friends, birth family, and pets intensely.<\/p>\n<p>In February, this month of red hearts and sentimental expectations, let\u2019s just say that any true love\u2014and I mean the real thing\u2014is good. Whatever its age, whatever its form, love is love.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Roney is an associate professor of English in UCF\u2019s Department of English. She can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:Lisa.Roney@ucf.edu\"><em>Lisa.Roney@ucf.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cReader, I married him\u201d\u2014the classic line from Jane Eyre\u2014may have been the main referent for unusual marriages for more than 100 years. Well, reader, I married him, too, but not until I was 49. What constitutes an unusual marriage constantly shifts. In a way, I represent a trend. 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