8. Compromise is harder now
Meeting each other halfway is actually harder than it used to be. “By your 50s, you have some set patterns of behaving and feeling, some set values, goals, ideas about how your life should go, and it can make you less flexible to accommodating someone else,” Saltz says.
“It can make you less willing or interested in compromising for someone else. You will not be growing up together, you will be grown up and trying to fit with someone—finding someone who fits is more challenging.”
