. >> karen bush and louise like to plan together, everything from dinner parties to the breakdown of chores at their new condo in sar societya, florida. >> -- sarahe a, florida. >> the projects at the home they share with jean from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> i will be home april 4th and i will probably be there most of that upcoming week so if there are things that i need to do. >> long time friends, now in their 60s have been coordinating their lives like this for the past ten years. >> before that like a growing number of female baby boomers, all three were divorced, living alone and unsatisfied with the size of their savings accounts as they neared retirement. >> let's tell the real story. >> she cooks, i do the dishes. >> combining resources, they decided would make life cheaper, easier and more fun. >> the relationship was easy to describe from the start. >> fight like cats and dogs, lots of drama every day. >> no, no, no, no. >> thank you for being my friend ♪ ♪. >> nationwide about 500,000 women over the age of 50 live with a nonromantic house mate. according to census data analyzed by aarp, that boils down to roughly 1340-- 130,000 grou