Nowadays we do everything later, be it prancing shamelessly across a stage in front of thousands, \u00c3\u00a0 la Sir Michael Jagger, or conquering Mount Everest for a second time, like 73-year-old Tamae Watanabe. As we live longer, humanity is increasingly refusing to sit back, put its feet up and settle for a quiet old age.
\nNowhere is this phenomenon of age aping youth more noticeable than in the field of divorce. So-called ”silver separation\u2019\u2019, the parting of couples in their sixties after as many as 40 years of marriage, is on the rise, bucking the general downward trend in divorce.
\nThe actress Diana Quick was 61 when she separated from her actor partner, Bill Nighy, after 27 years. As she said in an interview with the Telegraph this week: \u201cThere are far more couples splitting up in their sixties now and one reason is that they can. Economically, they have more independence.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n