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Finding love after 60 is possible. All you need is honest senior dating advice, information about which senior dating sites work and tips for finding someone special.

1 day ago

Stop Dating Like a TSA Agent: Why Overscreening Everyone Is Killing Your Love Life

Yes, I know you can never be too careful these days. With all the romance scams targeted at adults over 60, it’s no wonder you’re trying to do background checks on everyone you attempt to date. But let me tell you something… if you overdo it, you will literally kill your love life…

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2 weeks ago

Where Have All the Manners Gone? Online Dating, the Rise of Ghosting, and the Return of Intentional Dating

Online dating can be fun and exciting, meeting new and interesting people, exploring different places, and having experiences that broaden your horizons. But that sunny optimism is more often the exception rather than the rule…

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2 weeks ago

Where Are the Good Men?

Ahh, the search for the rare breed of good men: The decent men who want a serious relationship. You mean decently healthy, financially stable, well-groomed and clean, handsome enough, and ready for a long-term relationship. At first glance, these seem like questions about the dating market. But, if they were, my answer “everywhere” would suffice…

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1 month ago

How to Get Fun and Flirty Without Feeling Awkward

We all know how to flirt at least a little bit because some flirting happens subconsciously. This means it happens without our conscious awareness, so it’s very natural and automatic. Super sexual flirting isn’t done naturally, and that’s not something I recommend…

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2 months ago

Dating Over 60: Are Your Girlfriends Helping or Hurting?

Dating over 60 is brave. Tender. Hopeful. And yet – sometimes the hardest part isn’t the men. It’s the people sitting across from you at lunch, clutching their wine glasses, nodding sympathetically while inadvertently dragging your love life into the gutter…

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2 months ago

5 Things Men Don’t Want to Hear About on a First Date

I hear a lot of stories from my male clients. Please pay attention as they make up half of the people I work with on a weekly basis. Before you think I’m singling out the audience of Sixty and Me, keep in mind that these are valid things to consider…

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2 months ago

Poem: Fake Mike, Part Two – Breaking Hearts and Into Bank Accounts

Now let’s carry on, dear reader, stay near,
For Part Two holds truths some avoid out of fear. Because after the money, the wires, the pleas, Come silence… then questions… then nights without ease. You wait for a message. Refresh. Then retry. You tell yourself stories. You reason out why…

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2 months ago

Didn’t Feel Any Spark on the First Date? Try These 7 Tips

One of the most common complaints I hear from my coaching clients about first dates is that they didn’t feel any chemistry. So often we expect it to feel like a bolt of lightning like you see in the movies. We forget, we live in real life, not in a movie…

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2 months ago

Poem: Fake Mike, Part 1 — Breaking Hearts and Into Bank Accounts

The lonely heart is a hungry old hunter,
It wanders at night and it wonders and wonders. For years we were married, then suddenly—poof! A spouse disappears—by divorce… or by death. You planned a whole lifetime with someone beside you, then life…

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2 months ago

How to Write an Unstoppable Senior Dating Profile in 7 Easy Steps

When I started Boomerly, it wasn’t intended to be a dating site. Nothing would make me happier than seeing our members find love, but, this is not the purpose of the site. At the same time, since many people are looking for a romantic relationship, I decided to write a series of dating…

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