AnalysisStudies show that most men and women who have an older partner are married. Among these couples, those who have been married 17 years or more rank love as the main factor in keeping their marriage together. However, some questions arise about people who are elderly but not married, widowed or divorced. These questions focus on remarriage among older adults, dating, and intimacy. Iveniuk, J., Waite, LJ, Laumann, E., McClintock, MK and Tiedt, A. D's article helps us understand some key reasons for conflicts. in previous or current marriages in old age. This category falls into conflict theory because it shows how the dynamics of a marriage are affected and changed by illness and lack of positivity. The article showed that lack of positivity and poor health were the main indicators of marital conflict, leading to both divorce or depression. These findings also help to understand that men are more able to adapt to conflict and change, allowing them to enter the world of senior dating or even remarry more easily in the event of divorce or death of the spouse. in most cases, men are more positive about their spouses in poor health. This is likely because respectable men feel the need to protect their loved ones while women feel the need to protect their title as mother, wife, or simply woman. This allows this category to also fall under labeling theory and also role theory in that our personal identity influences and determines our behavior. If a woman sees herself as a stressed person, she will adopt the attitudes and behaviors of a stressed person. The wife plays a huge role as a “husband…… middle of paper… elf in the theory of interactionism. How we age sexually determines the amount of affection we need to feel from others to feel desirable. This is not just an issue for older people, it is a constant factor in everyday life.Conclusion Overall, the answer to the question "why is marriage later in life so different from marriage in earlier years?" » The answer is that as we age, not only do our bodies change, our values ​​change, our options change, our outlook on life and how we deal with conflict changes and our meanings change. Older people experience things in an extremely different way than teenagers or middle-aged people. Who someone is when they marry at 24 is completely different from who they are when they remarry at 62 and cannot and should not be seen as adhering to the same set of standards.