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        In the first and second parts of my blog “How to Find Love at an Older Age,”  I wrote about my widowed neighbor M. We struck up a loving friendship which ended for me, when he hinted at marriage.

        It ended for me because my neighbor is 10 years older than me and suffers from severe osteoporosis. It ended for me because I took care of my husband who was 10 years my senior when he became ill and decrepit.

      I did not want to become a caregiver again for a second spouse. 

      When I told M, I would ever marry again, we said goodbye and he left my house sadly.

      After this happened, I wrote, in the third blog of this series, that finding love at an older age is only possible when we change our state of mind in regard to what love means. Personally, love at an older age became for me warmth and companionship with a dear someone.

      It turns out, my 82 year old neighbor also changed his state of mind about what love means for him! 

      When I bumped into him months later, he said he would be perfectly happy if I became his Yoga and Chi Gong teacher instead of his wife. Would I please teach him motion and movements for his ailing body?         

     Of course, I cried. I love teaching.

     And so once a week, we spent time together in my studio alone. Was it romantic? When I corrected his postures, I did it so as not to arouse him or me. Oh my God, what might come about if we found ourselves needy in bed?

    Would I disturb this platonic love between a student and his teacher? Of course, I would.