When I turned 50, this older buddy used to ask me when was I going to get that nurse, since I had a house paid off, nice car, and retired. I knew it was coming from jealousy, no matter how smooth he would ask. So I began telling people if they don't have a girlfriend for me, then shut up. Most of those brothers bringing up my love life were single themselves, or still chasing skeezers. Like if a brother isn't complaining about being single, then why ask those questions, especially after he done came this far single. Most of these cats were saying these things because I was always jolly for somebody who was living alone, until they start talking like that. Once I started setting them straight, that stopped.
As far as a nurse, you'e not really suppose to marry so your wife can be your nurse at old age. That's a misconception. Your wife is suppose to be your help-mate, so she don't have to be your nurse in old age. I mean when you get up there, you may wound up being her nurse instead, because she's gonna age right along with you. Hopefully she cooks healthy meals along the way, that helps prevent you both from coming down with any of those comorbilities. And if you do get sick while you're still young, hopefully that will be temporary. Truth be told, nobody wants to be 75 or 80, nursing their disabled spouse in a wheel chair. I've heard my aunt say this to my disabled uncle, after he was bragging about how good she takes care of him while he's in his wheel chair. She didn't say that in front of my mother, my uncles sister. She said it when we came back to visit a few years later without my mother, lol. That's why it's good to have some kind of health plan that includes in-house visits, or better yet, you and your spouse move to a senior living facility together, where they do your house cleaning, prepare healthy meals, while checking on you both, before you get to a point they have no choice but to put you in a nursing home. But I never see it work out this way. Maybe it does for certain older White couples who had money, but not for too many senior Black couples. Plus the husband is usually gone before it gets to that point, especially if he's Black. Or most of the time, your spouse is going to wound up sending you to a nursing home anyway when you come down with mental conditions like Alzheimer's, and it gets to an advanced stage. Truth be told, a lot of times when people get old and sick, and near death, they don't even recognize their own spouse or family members. That's how one of my grandfathers died.
I use to suggest my older buddy move to a senior living facility, since he was so concerned about being lonely, and dying alone. That seems to be a bigger issue with those who had been divorced from long-term marriages, and raised two or three children. But he told me he seen too many ambulance's coming out of those senior living facilities. I checked out a few when I turned 50, and he was right. I guess you be watching people pass away right after you get close to them. But that depends on which senior facility you live in, plus there are different categories. So not everybody living in a senior living facility is near death, especially the "independent living" senior facility category.
I always believed in hanging on to close buddies along the way, because I wanted them to be around when I got old one day. But I wasn't expecting so many to fall off this early, or become disabled (mentally and physically). So don't be surprised if a lot of them aren't there for you anyway, or if tolerating some of that over-the-board nonsense wasn't even worth it. I'm not even sure if my older buddy I was speaking about above is still here. The last time I spoke with him he was in rehab, coming back from his second near death experience. Then he vanished, and his phone number went from saying, "this number is not in service" to "this person hasn't set up their voice box yet", which sounds like somebody else has his number.
Personally if I ever get that sick, I would never want to become a burden to the point I would need my wife to wipe my butt and all, if I had a wife. I wouldn't want my daughter to do all of that for me either, if I needed her to move in. She already have two teenage boys of her own. If I ever get that incapacitated, it would be better if I just went to a nursing home, because that's exactly where they're gonna wound up sending us most of time anyway. If we don't have WW3, I'll probably wound up checking out one of those independent living facilities, or just get Life Alert...just in case I fall and can't get up!, lol. All jokes aside, I'll probably get the kind where they call you everyday, if they have that. Then again, that might me annoying. And I'd hate to move a girl in here, just so she can find out I'm leaving everything to my daughter (who don't deserve it), and she wound up homeless. Then again, my daughter have her own house. Some men wound up leaving everything to the one who was there for them. I guess it all depends.