History Main / DecemberDecemberRomance

Compare MayDecemberRomance and GrowOldWithMe. It often overlaps with NewOldFlame, if the two characters were lovers earlier in life but got separated for some reason. It is the opposite of PuppyLove, in which two unusually young characters have a romance--although in the NewOldFlame case, the same pair of characters may have been both. It can also serve as a case of SecondLove.

* An episode of ''Anime/SailorMoon Super S'' features a [[SugarAndIcePersonality snippy but secretly kind]] old woman named Mayako, who strikes an InterGenerationalFriendship with Chibi-Usa and Mamoru. It turns out that the reason why she's so bitter is that she lost her old boyfriend twenty years ago, which made her a borderline BrokenBird. Said boyfriend, a famous SupremeChef Ichiro Ohno (whom Makoto is a huge fan of), returns into her life towards the end of the episode (after Mayako is saved from Hawk Eye by the Senshi) and apologies to her for the hurt he caused her, and they get together again and open a restaurant -- like they had sworn to do many years ago.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Tragically {{subverted}} with Jiraiya and Tsunade. Jiraiya spent most of his life as the UnluckyChildhoodFriend but after a lot of interpersonal drama and Tsunade managing to reconcile with him and her old idealism thanks to Naruto, it looks like she might have been willing to give him a chance now that both of them were in their fifties. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Jiraiya heads off to the Hidden Rain Village to gather intel on the leader of the Akatsuki and ends up fighting and dying to Pain, [[TemptingFate right after he made a bet with Tsunade to bet against him since she almost always loses to assure her]]. Jiraiya dies noting his inability to win Tsunade's heart as just one of his many failures, and Tsunade is left heart-broken at realizing one of the only dear friends she had left is now dead.]]

** Also, Aunt May and [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Edwin Jarvis]]. However, it didn't end well because [[spoiler:it turns out that "Jarvis" is actually a Skrull impostor, and has been for a while. The real Jarvis has likely never met her.]]

* The titular character of ''ComicStrip/MaryWorth'' is in one of these with another resident of her condo complex. It's not the only example of this trope in the strip: a recent storyline had an elderly neighbour who was facing moving into a retirement home fall in love and marry a man living at the home, as well.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' there's Queen Uberta and Lord Rogers. The original film gives them a MaybeEverAfter, although the sequels reveal that it doesn't last, [[spoiler: particularly because Uberta's long-lost husband eventually turns out to be still alive.]] There's also some hints at Queen Uberta/King William in the first film, but King William goes and dies.

* In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries 2'' (the Disney film, not the books), [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling Joe the head of security]] falls in love with the dowager queen. Their dialogue suggests that they've had a sort of love affair for quite a while, but are only now admitting it... [[spoiler:and they finally decide to get married in the end]].

* ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'' has Creator/JackNicholson's character opposite Creator/KeanuReeves's, competing for the affections of the beautiful older woman played by Creator/DianeKeaton. Even worse/better, she's the mother of ''his last girlfriend''.
* Ivan Simanov and Victoria in ''Film/Red2010''. They're well into their sixties and clearly enamoured of each other, which qualifies them. Played with because [[spoiler:they were originally lovers as young adults before their jobs -- and the fact that they were on opposite sides of the Cold War! -- separated them]]. December/December rekindling, perhaps?
* Guillaume Blerot and the Widow Audel in ''Film/{{Chocolat}}''.
* Claire and Lorenzo in ''Film/LettersToJuliet'', who were separated when they were teenagers, married other people and after fifty years, were reunited and married. Made even better by the fact that they are played by Creator/VanessaRedgrave and Franco Nero, who similarly married later in life after an early romance and separation.

* ''Film/TheBestExoticMarigoldHotel'' is full of this, notably [[spoiler:a rare gay version with Graham and his childhood sweetheart/servant.]]
* ''Film/TheIntern'': Ben (whose wife recently passed away) hooks up with Fiona, a masseuse at the same company he now works at who's almost his own senior age. They even go to the funeral of one of Ben's friends for a date.

* ''Film/ChildrenOfNature'' is about two old folks who meet in a BleakAbyssRetirementHome, fall in love, steal a car, and escape together.
* ''{{Film/Shadowlands}}'': Both Jack and Joy were in or near middle-aged at the time of their marriage.
* ''Film/{{Louisa}}'': Louisa, a widow in her seventies, falls for Henry, the neighborhood grocer, a widower also in his seventies. It becomes a December-December LoveTriangle when Abel (boss to Louisa's son Hal) falls in love with Louisa as well.

* ''Film/CatsPlay'': Between Erzsi and Viktor, both now in their seventies, who live in the same apartment building. Towards the end, Erzsi reveals to her sister that it's a matter of {{Old Flame}}s reuniting, that she and Viktor were lovers when they were young and continued their relationship even after she got married. Erzsi only broke it off back in the day after her husband had a health scare and came out of a life-or-death surgery.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'' has country mechanic Bob falling in love with aging trans woman Bernadette after her much younger husband dies and his much younger wife leaves him.
* ''Film/APianoForMrsCimino'' has Esther Cimino, an aging and widowed retired piano teacher, meeting and soon dating her long-lost friend Barney Fellman.
* ''Film/AmericanFiction'': Monk's mother's housekeeper rekindles a romance with a cop from the town where they have a beach house and she has a FourthDateMarriage with him, but it's portrayed as a good thing and not something irrational. They obviously had a prior thing for each other and decide to waste no time since both of them are probably in their sixties, if not older.

* In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/GoingPostal'', the delivery of a letter results in two childhood sweethearts, now elderly and widowed, getting married after all.
** Also seen with Mr. Weavall in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky.''
* Paul and Elaine in ''Literature/TheGreenMile''.
** Another Creator/StephenKing instance, with Phil and Pauline in the story "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive" (found in ''Literature/TheBazaarOfBadDreams'').
** And another, with Ralph and Lois in ''Literature/{{Insomnia}}''. Also a SecondLove situation, since both had happy marriages until their respective first spouses died.

* Eleni Cooper and Sir Myles in the ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' quartet. Very sweetly portrayed.
** In the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' books, Sandry [[ShipperOnDeck ships]] her great-uncle with a dance instructor his age.

* In the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' story "Indian Summer of an Uncle", Bertie's Uncle George has an "[[HollywoodMidlifeCrisis Indian summer]]" and goes after [[MayDecemberRomance a girl much younger than himself]]. [[spoiler:Then he meets the girl's aunt, who turns out to be the lost love of his younger days, and marries her instead]].
%%* ''Literature/TheWestingGame'': [[spoiler:Otis Amber and Crow]].
* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'':
** Schoolteacher Melissa Mailey and Dr. James Nichols. Both are in their late fifties at the time of the Ring of Fire, and they're both pleasantly surprised to find that they haven't... lost the capacity for enjoying each other. Which they do. On a regular basis. It's a mark of Melissa's CharacterDevelopment that she throws propriety to the winds and starts openly living in sin with him.
** Mayor Henry Dreeson and Veronica Richter, grandmother of Gretchen and Hans.
* In Judy Blume's ''Literature/FudgeAMania'', Peter Hatcher's widowed grandmother gets married to the widower grandfather of Peter's SitcomArchNemesis Sheila Tubman.
* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' Dalinar Kholin and Navani Kholin. They are both in their fifties, he used to court her but she finally chose his brother Gavilar. The marriage resulted in two children but did not seem to be very happy. After her husband's death and Dalinar's near death, Navani finally decides to throw propriety to the winds and get together with the man she really loves. At first, he objects, because it's against the society's rules. He gets over it, though.
* ''Literature/MaleRising'' has Usman Abacar (a West African soldier and politician) and [[spoiler:Sarah Child (a British high-society woman)]] marrying once their respective spouses have died.
* Quite a common theme in ''Iris Murdoch'''s works (well, sometimes in October-October way).
* ''Literature/TheLittleCoffeeShopOfKabul'': Halajan and Rashif are two elderly people who have been in love for years [[StarCrossedLovers despite not being arranged to marry]]. They've been secretly conversing via letters for years, [[spoiler:and finally marry at the end]].
* ''Literature/YoursTruly'': Truly Lovejoy notices that Belinda Winchester and Augustus Wylde, the town's local romance novelist, seem to be getting sweet on each other.

* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': George's great-grandmother and Harold's grandfather hook up around the end of ''The Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People''. George and Harold were suitably [[ParentalSexualitySquick squicked]] in-universe from being present to them passionately kissing before going off to find a restaurant for a date.

* Britcom ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'' -- young lovers, a soldier and a nurse, lose contact when he's shipped off to the Korean War. They're reunited in their golden years. Counts as both a case of this trope and GrowOldWithMe.

%%* Happens to Karen [=McCluskey=] in the 6th season of ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.
* A [[ZigZagged weird example]] in [[RoboShip the Doctor and the TARDIS]] on ''Series/DoctorWho''. The first time they met in human form, they were both several hundred years old. On the other hand, they had been "together" for several hundred years before that too, without the Doctor really grasping how explicit the relationship was. On the other hand, when they first met, they were both instantly smitten with each other and ran off together, the TARDIS was already very old (an antique in fact) at that point, and it's implied the Doctor's first incarnation ''may'' have been rather old at the time too (although he was young by Time Lord standards). On the other hand, she's a sentient starship/time machine and he has a case of TheNthDoctor going on, so when they first meet in human form, his body appears to be in its late twenties and hers appears to be thirtysomething, so it's debatable whether it qualifies for this trope. On the ''other'' other hand, it's debatable whether a couple this bizarre properly qualifies for ''any'' romance trope, so...

* Happened on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' when Sophia fell in love with a man she met on the boardwalk. [[spoiler:Sadly, it was hinted at during the episode and revealed at the end that he had Alzheimer's, so they had to cut it short because he was going to be put in a home]].

* In season 3 of ''Series/{{Shtisel}}'', Shulem's brother-in-law Issachar was about to marry his FirstLove Nechama, but [[spoiler:suddenly dies]]. Shulem floats the idea of the two of them getting together, but she doesn't like him in that way. She does find a kindred spirit in his brother Nuchem, though, who loves classical music just like her.

* During the "The Book of Love" quest in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' you play the role of matchmaker while observing different kinds of love. At one point, you are tasked with pairing up the fairly old court mage (who might be ''really'' old since he's a High Elf) and the Jarl's Housecarl, who looks like she's in her fifties. The priestess of Mara questgiver describes this as a "seasoned" love.

* ''VideoGame/DinerDashAdventures'' has Grandpa Norbert courting Grandma Florence.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldNeverland,'' nothing forces you to get married, so you can get married late in life to another Elderly character if you wish. While [=NPCs=] will often get married while young, it is possible for two older characters to get married as well.

** There are also [[FanPreferredCouple supporters of Katara and Zuko]] having this relationship in The Legend of Korra.

* ''Last Tango In Halifax'' is about a couple in their seventies who, due to miscommunication, never got together in their teens, meet again on Facebook and get engaged the day they reunite in person.

* Happened on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' when Sophia fell in love with a man she met on the boardwalk. [[spoiler:Sadly, it was hinted at during the episode and revealed at the end that he had Alzheimer's, so they had to cut it short because he was going to be put in a home]].
** In another episode she falls in love with her late best friend's husband. [[spoiler:They get married but realize it won't work out between them so they decide to separate.]]

* Happened with a couple of guest characters (both widowed) on ''Series/GoodTimes''. It was mentioned that as a married couple they could get more from social security than if they were single.
* Happens to Karen [=McCluskey=] in the 6th season of ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.

* Tom and Diana in ''Series/WaitingForGod'', who meet when they're committed to the same retirement home.
* Elka, a senior citizen, in ''Series/HotInCleveland'' has multiple romantic interests of her same age just in the first season.
* Mr. Feeny and Dean Bolander in ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' (played, incidentally, by husband and wife Creator/WilliamDaniels and Bonnie Bartlett).

* Gaius and Alice on ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' (even though they had met, nearly married, and broken up prior to the episode, it was still a late-in-life relationship).
* {{Silver Fox}}es Agent Gibbs and Dr. Ryan on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', though sadly it doesn't last.
* A weird example in [[RoboShip the Doctor and the TARDIS]] on ''Series/DoctorWho''. The first time they met in human form, they were both several hundred years old. On the other hand, they had been "together" for several hundred years before that too, without the Doctor really grasping how explicit the relationship was. On the other hand, when they first met, they were both instantly smitten with each other and ran off together, the TARDIS was already very old (an antique in fact) at that point, and it's implied the Doctor's first incarnation ''may'' have been rather old at the time too (although he was young by Time Lord standards). On the other hand, she's a sentient starship/time machine and he has a case of TheNthDoctor going on, so when they first meet in human form, his body appears to be in its late twenties and hers appears to be thirtysomething, so it's debatable whether it qualifies for this trope. On the ''other'' other hand, it's debatable whether a couple this bizarre properly qualifies for ''any'' romance trope, so...
* ''Last Tango In Halifax'' is about a couple in their seventies who, due to miscommunication, never got together in their teens, meet again on Facebook and get engaged the day they reunite in person.
* In one episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Debra's father is shown to have remarried and wants to bring his new wife to Thanksgiving. Debra is upset, although Ray points out that if her mom is happy, she should be happy. Everyone is expecting a MayDecemberRomance, only for the woman to actually be older than him (the age is never stated, but Debra's father looked to be in his 60s and his new wife looked to be in her 80s).
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Zek and Ishka, i.e. the romance between the leader of the entire Ferengi Alliance and Quark's mother. Quark didn't take it very well, not least because the Ferengi government had [[PersonaNonGrata forced him into exile]] a while back and Zek didn't seem to think this was any sort of barrier to pursuing a relationship with his mother. It didn't seem to deter Ishka very much either, but then Quark always was TheUnfavourite...

* ''Series/ThisIsUs'' has a flashback episode showing Dr. K (the elderly doctor who delivered two of Rebecca and Jack’s children) still mourning his late wife who died a year earlier and is reluctant to move on. After delivering the Pearson’s children and giving Jack some life advice, he himself is inspired to try to live life again and reaches out to his (also elderly) female neighbor Anne to take up her offer to make him dinner one night which he earlier brushed off. Eighteen years later he and Anne reappear at Jack’s funeral where he introduces Anne as his wife.
* In the ValentinesDayEpisode of ''Series/{{Superstore}}'', Amy and Glenn scheme to set up two senior employees. Lampshaded as they mainly do it because the two are elderly.

* ''Series/ModernLove'': Margot and Ken are both elderly when they start seeing each other.
* In season 3 of ''Series/{{Shtisel}}'', Shulem's brother-in-law Issachar was about to marry his FirstLove Nechama, but [[spoiler:suddenly dies]]. Shulem floats the idea of the two of them getting together, but she doesn't like him in that way. She does find a kindred spirit in his brother Nuchem, though, who loves classical music just like her.
* Kelly and Yorkie in the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode [[Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero "San Junipero"]] are this. While they appear as their younger selves with their digital avatars in the titular ArtificialAfterlife, their real-world selves are elderly women.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Alfie}}'', Vera, a late middle-aged [[{{Hobbits}} Havlin]] woman and the title character's mother, goes on a journey to find her daughter and hires a guide, [[InterspeciesRomance an equally middle-aged human]] [[HugeGuyTinyGirl named Cillian]], to help her. Over the course of their subplot, they slowly but surely form one of these, starting with BelligerentSexualTension (mostly on [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Vera's]] [[{{Tsundere}} side]]), then become FriendsWithBenefits and finally truly beginning their romance with a BigDamnKiss.

** ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' is set in a alternate future and briefly shows that Catwoman and the Riddler got together at some point, which is the only reason Lex allows the latter to join the Mankind Liberation Front.

* In ''Fanfic/LeaveYourSpirit'', Katara and Zuko slept together once and had Kya from that. Katara never told either her husband Aang, Zuko or even Kya herself about her daughter's parentage. Decades afterwards, long after Aang's death, Zuko and Katara meet again. The fic ends on a MaybeEverAfter ending.
* Zuko and Katara getting together during the time of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra '' fics (when they’re in their late eighties/ early nineties) are very popular. Katara has been widowed for seventeen years by the time of the show but what makes this FanficFuel is that Zuko’s marital status has never been confirmed one way or the other. He has a daughter and two grandkids, implying he’s been married at one point, but it’s unclear to whom he is/was married or if he’s widowed as well.

* ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'' has Creator/JackNicholson's character opposite Creator/KeanuReeves's, competing for the affections of the beautiful older woman played by Diane Keaton. Even worse/better, she's the mother of ''his last girlfriend''.
* Ivan Simanov and Victoria in ''Film/Red2010''. They're well into their sixties and clearly enamoured of each other, which qualifies them. Played with because [[spoiler:they were originally lovers as young adults before their jobs -- and the fact that they were on opposite sides of the Cold War!!! -- separated them]]. December/December rekindling, perhaps?

* ''Film/APrairieHomeCompanion'' : Country singer Chuck Akers and the crew member he is engaged in a whimsical romance with are both about seventy.

* ''Film/TheIntern'': Ben (whose wife recently passed away) hooks up with Fiona, a masseuse at the same the company he now works at who's almost his own senior age. They even go to a funeral of one of Ben's friends for a date.

* ''{{Film/Shadowlands}}'': Both Jack and Joy were in or near middle aged at the time of their marriage.

* ''Film/CatsPlay'': Between Erzsi and Viktor, both now in their seventies, who live in the same apartment building. Towards the end Erzsi reveals to her sister that it's a matter of {{Old Flame}}s reuniting, that she and Viktor were lovers when they were young and continued their relationship even after she got married. Erzsi only broke it off back in the day after her husband had a health scare and came out of a life-or-death surgery.

* ''Film/APianoForMrsCimino'' has Esther Cimino, an aging and vidowed retired piano teacher, meeting and soon dating her long-lost friend Barney Fellman.

* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': Two of Sharleyan's biggest allies during her reign as Queen of Chisholm and, later, Empress of Charis, were her mother Queen Mother Alahnah and her First Councilor and the Baron of Green Mountain, Mahrak Sahndyrs, who had served Sharleyan's father before her. Midway through the series, Green Mountain is grievously injured following a terrorist attack by the Inquisition's ''Rakurai'' agents. His injuries force him to step down from his role as First Councilor and, in his retirement and rehabilitation, he and Alahnah become a couple, much to Sharleyan's delight.

** The fifty-something Carson, the butler, and the fifty-year-old Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, were supposed to be MarriedToTheJob, and PlatonicLifePartners, but soon became a FanPreferredCouple. The WordOfGod was aware of it and although he used to say that they wouldn't get together, liked teasing the fans, by some GreenEyedMonster from Carson's side and some ShipTease from both sides. However, after 5 seasons, 12 years on screen, they get a RelationshipUpgrade at the end of the 5th season. Unfortunately, after their wedding, it almost receives the ShippingBedDeath trope by Carson's nasty behaviour towards his new wife and poor plotlines.

* Kelly and Yorkie in the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode [[Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero "San Junipero"]] are this. While they appear as their younger selves with their digital avatars in the titular ArtificialAfterlife, their real world selves are elderly women.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Puppy Love, Mr. Barlow and Mrs. Davis", Mrs. Davis falls in love with the aged school custodian. It leads to FacePalm worthy descriptions of love in old age by callow teenagers Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin.

--> '''Walter:''' Oh, by the way, how's Mrs. Davis' romance with Mr. Barlow coming along?
--> '''Miss Brooks:''' Oh, have you noticed that, too? I think it's the cutest thing in the world. Mrs. Davis actually has a bad case of puppy love.
--> '''Walter:''' It is cute... considering she's in her second puppyhood. No disrespect intended, you understand. After all, what can be more romantic than two lonely old people encountering the grand passion in the sear and yellow leaf of life?
--> '''Miss Brooks:''' Why, that's absolutely poetic, Walter.
-->'''Walter:''' The burning desires of youth long past, they look now for the subdued glow of companionship. The warm and simple pleasures that two elderly people in love can share together.
--> '''Miss Brooks:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I can see them now - soaking their feet in the same pan of Epsom salts.]]

-->'''Miss Brooks:''' Hello, Harriet. I've got to deliver a message to the custodian. Have you seen him?
-->'''Harriet:''' Oh, yes. Mr. Barlow just went into his office. (''dreamily'') Isn't it wonderful, Miss Brooks?
-->'''Miss Brooks:''' I don't know. I've never been in his office.
-->'''Harriet:''' I mean about Mr. Barlow and Mrs. Davis. They're crazy about each other. Of course, it's a big secret.
--> '''Miss Brooks:''' [[DeadpanSnarker It couldn't be a bigger secret if they took out an ad.]]
-->'''Harriet:''' Is there anything more romantic than the mellow romance of old age?
-->'''Miss Brooks:''' Now please, Harriet.
-->'''Harriet:''' To think of two people finding love at a time of life when others are preparing to pass on. Two people walking hand in hand in the twilight of life.
-->'''Miss Brooks:''' [[SarcasmMode Yes, there's nothing like a brisk walk before passing on.]]

* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'': The second game has Larry Da Vinchi, who is in love with Victoria Von Bathysphere. Larry often refers Victoria with AffectionateNickname(s) based on various desserts; befitting that her Laboratory is in a world made of [[LevelAte sweets]].

* ''Film/APianoForMrsCimino'' has Esther Cimino, an aging and vidowed retired piano teacher, meeting and soon dating let long lost friend Barney Fellman.

* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': Two of Sharleyan's biggest allies during her reign as Queen of Chisholm and, later, Empress of Charis, were her mother Queen Mother Alahnah and her First Councilor and the Baron of Green Mountain, Mahrak Sahndyrs. Midway through the series, Green Mountain is grievously injured following a terrorist attack by the Inquisition's ''Rakurai'' agents. His injuries force him to step down from his role as First Councilor and, in his retirement and rehabilitation, he and Alahnah become a couple, much to Sharleyan's delight.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' there's Queen Uberta and Lord Rogers. There's also some hints at Queen Uberta/King William but King William goes and dies.

* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': Two of Sharleyan's biggest allies during her reign as Queen of Chisholm and, later, Empress of Charis, were her mother Queen Mother Alahnah and her First Councilor and the Baron of Green Mountain, Mahrak Sahndyrs. Midway through the series, Green Mountain is grievously injured following a terrorist attack by the Inquisition's ''Rakurai'' agents. His injuries force him to step down from his role as first councilor and, in his retirement and rehabilitation, he and Alahnah become a couple, much to Sharleyan's delight.

* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': Two of Sharleyan's biggest allies during her reign as Queen of Chisholm and, later, Empress of Charis, were her mother Queen Mother Alahnah and her First Councilor and the Baron of Green Mountain, Mahrak Sahndyrs. Midway through the series, Green Mountain is grievously injured following a terrorist attack by the Inquisition's ''Rakurai'' agents. His injuries force him to step down from his role as first councilor and, in his retirement and rehabilitation, he and Alahna become a couple, much to Sharleyan's delight.

* In ''Manga/FullMoon'', this becomes the case for Fuzuki and Seijurou. The two met in their teen years and loved each other, but because Fuzuki's best friend was [[LoveTriangle also in love with Seijurou]], mistakenly thought the two had betrayed her and said friend [[spoiler: (Moe Rikyou, aka ''Meroko'')]] committed suicide, Fuzuki was too heart-broken and guilt-ridden to pursue a relationship with Seijurou after all. It's not until decades later that Seijurou sees Fuzuki again and the two are seen holding hands in the final chapter.

* In ''Film/RobotAndFrank'' there is clearly a spark between retired jewel thief Frank and Jennifer the librarian, played by Creator/FrankLangella and Creator/SusanSarandon. [[spoiler: She is his ex-wife, but his memory loss is so bad that he no longer remembers her.]]

* ''Literature/MaleRising'' has Usman Abacar (a West African soldier and politician) and [[spoiler: Sarah Child (a British high-society woman)]] marrying once their respective spouses have died.

--> '''Walter''': Oh, by the way, how's Mrs. Davis' romance with Mr. Barlow coming along?
--> '''Miss Brooks''': Oh, have you noticed that, too? I think it's the cutest thing in the world. Mrs. Davis actually has a bad case of puppy love.
--> '''Walter''': It is cute... considering she's in her second puppyhood. No disrespect intended, you understand. After all, what can be more romantic than two lonely old people encountering the grand passion in the sear and yellow leaf of life?
--> '''Miss Brooks''': Why, that's absolutely poetic, Walter.
-->'''Walter''': The burning desires of youth long past, they look now for the subdued glow of companionship. The warm and simple pleasures that two elderly people in love can share together.
--> '''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker I can see them now - soaking their feet in the same pan of Epsom salts.]]

-->'''Miss Brooks''': Hello, Harriet. I've got to deliver a message to the custodian. Have you seen him?
-->'''Harriet''': Oh, yes. Mr. Barlow just went into his office. (''dreamily'') Isn't it wonderful, Miss Brooks?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': I don't know. I've never been in his office.
-->'''Harriet''': I mean about Mr. Barlow and Mrs. Davis. They're crazy about each other. Of course, it's a big secret.
--> '''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker It couldn't be a bigger secret if they took out an ad.]]
-->'''Harriet''': Is there anything more romantic than the mellow romance of old age?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Now please, Harriet.
-->'''Harriet''': To think of two people finding love at a time of life when others are preparing to pass on. Two people walking hand in hand in the twilight of life.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': [[SarcasmMode Yes, there's nothing like a brisk walk before passing on.]]

* ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'' has Creator/JackNicholson's character opposite Creator/KeanuReeves's, competing for the affections of the beautiful older woman played by Diane Keaton. Even worse/better, she's the mother of ''his last girlfriend's''.

* Claire and Lorenzo in ''Film/LettersToJuliet'', who were separated when they were teenagers, married other people and after fifty years, were reunited and married.

* ''Film/{{Steam}}'': Doris is at least in her seventies, dating a man around her age.

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* Tom Poston and Suzanne Pleshette tied the golden cord as seniors.
* One Texas couple, Lela and Raymond Howard, married in their 70s. The two made national headlines eleven years later in 1997 after disappearing while driving to a local music festival, eventually found dead in a wreck hundreds of miles away in Arkansas.[[note]]It's assumed that both entirely forgot where they were going, as they both had cognitive issues; Lela was suspected to have Alzheimer's, while Raymond was recovering from recent brain surgery.[[/note]] During the search for them, the story became the basis for the hit song "The Way" by Fastball.
* Some seniors meet and fall in love in senior care facilities, sometimes getting married and having the wedding right in the facility.
* A ''shocking'' number of new STI cases are happening in geriatric populations, to the surprise of many people (including doctors) who don't realize that many older people can and do have active sex lives. The new cases result from a) the idea that (since old women can't get pregnant) condoms aren't necessary and b) lack of education about sexually-transmitted diseases due to social taboos, or antiquated beliefs that they only happen to "bad" people. And many doctors don't think to talk to their elderly patients about sexual health.
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* Franchise/DCComics:
** ComicBook/GreenLantern [[OldSuperhero Alan Scott]] and [[DatingCatwoman Molly Mayne, AKA Harlequin]], one of his rogues from back in the day. They got back in touch and eventually married in ''ComicBook/InfinityInc''. There was some friction in the marriage, though, as the lantern kept Scott physically young while Mayne aged naturally. In despair, she made a DealWithTheDevil in the crossover ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', prompting a horrified Scott to enter Hell to rescue his wife's soul. Later, however, Scott was aged to his actual chronological age.
** ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' is set in a alternate future and briefly shows that Catwoman and the Riddler got together at some point, which is the only reason Lex allows the latter to join the Mankind Liberation Front.

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** Grandpa Jim meets his SecondLove Iris two years after [[RomancingTheWidow his wife Mariam's death]]. They move into a seniors' housing complex together, elope three years later, and remain HappilyMarried, despite Jim's escalating health problems, until his death.

** The fifty-something Carson, the butler, and the fifty-year-old Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, were supposed to be MarriedToTheJob, and PlatonicLifePartners, but soon became a FanPreferredCouple. The WordOfGod was aware of it and although he used to say that they wouldn't get together, liked teasing the fans, by some GreenEyedMonster from Carson's side and some ShipTease from both sides. However, after 5 seasons, 12 years on screen, TheyDo at the end of the 5th season. Unfortunately, after their wedding, it almost receives the ShippingBedDeath trope by Carson's nasty behaviour towards his new wife and poor plotlines.

* In ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'', Tsunayoshi and Emonnosuke knew each other for years, and it's implied from the start that they were smitten with each other, but what with Emonnosuke being too old to be a concubine, and later Tsunayoshi's need to conceive a new heir after the death of her daughter, they were unable to confess their love to each other until their older years, certainly after Tsunayoshi hit menopause. [[spoiler:The day after they have sex for the first time, [[DeathBySex Emonnosuke dies from an aneurysm]].]]

* Grandpa has had these a couple of times on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In one case, Marge tried to hook him up with her widowed mother (then Mr. Burns came along). In another, he dated a woman who lived in the same old folks home who died and left him a large sum of money. He's currently married to Rita La Fleur, who's roughly the same age as him.