Dating

I am often asked how I was able to survive online dating for so long before I finally found my match. Happily married now for five years, I always say my long online dating journey was well worth it, despite the frustration, aggravation, and anger it sometimes generated. I online dated on and off for 13 years…

You’re enjoying dinner with a man you’d like to see again. Then he says he’s never been married, and you start wondering what you missed. At his age, shouldn’t he have made it down the aisle at least once? If you’ve been divorced, his history can feel harder to explain than your own. You know what it takes to share a life with someone. Has he ever tried?

Three podcasts. Two television interviews. In the last week. And apparently, every interviewer in America received the same memo. “Andrea, What’s the Best Dating App for Women Over 60?” Ah, yes. THAT question. The one I’m supposed to answer in 12 seconds, preferably while smiling at the camera and pretending I’ve discovered a secret warehouse filled with emotionally…

When we think about healthy aging, we often focus on exercise, nutritious food, and sleep. Our need for affection and pleasure deserves attention, too. For many women, sexuality remains a meaningful part of life well beyond 60. Yet this subject can become difficult to discuss. Changes in our bodies, the loss of a partner…

They say you never know what it’s like to stand in another person’s shoes. This is such a profound and true statement when it comes to the relationship between married and single friends in their 50s, 60s and beyond…

If you feel like you’re inundated every day with online ads, unwanted solicitations and suspected scams, you’re not alone. New polling shows a shockingly high number of Americans, an estimated 4 in 10, are subjected to suspected scams on a daily basis, with 3 in 10 of those polled admitting they’ve lost money…

If you’ve fallen for a widower and can’t tell whether he’s ready, or you’re a widow thinking about dating again, most dating advice skips right over you. Grief keeps no schedule, and love won’t wait for it to finish. Here’s what 20 years of coaching has taught me about telling the two apart…

Hot flushes, mood swings, creeping spare tires around the midriff – we are all familiar with the big M and its effects on us as we hit ‘that’ age. Few women sail through menopause with ease, and some of us have an exceedingly difficult time of it…

I talk to smart, accomplished women every week who are stuck in the same loop: swiping through profile after profile, comparing and cross-referencing, and somehow still unable to settle on anyone. Here’s what 20 years of helping daters in my coaching practice has taught me: the problem usually isn’t a shortage of good people; it’s how you’re searching…

Dating after 60 has a particular flavor of nervousness that 25-year-olds simply don’t have to deal with. You’re not just wondering if someone likes you back – you’re wondering if you still remember how to do this at all, and whether your judgment, tested by a marriage or relationship that didn’t work out, can be trusted again…