My 70-year-old father-in-law insisted on hiring a young maid. A year later, he looked increasingly pale and could barely stand, but he wanted to marry the maid, 40 years his junior.

My father-in-law was 70.

After my mother-in-law passed away, he lived alone, so we hired him a young maid named Esmeralda, 29 years old, from a village, very bright and soft-spoken.

At …