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Senior Dating Advice

What is the best senior dating advice? Is it best to explore your passions, hoping that you will meet someone special? Or, do senior dating sites offer a quicker way to find love after 60? These are a few of the questions that I have asked professional dating coaches over the years. Their answers may surprise you.

4 months 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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5 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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5 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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5 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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6 months ago

How to Tell if a Man Is Ready for Long-Term Commitment

Part of the reason so many women avoid dating online is that it feels like a waste of time. I hear that plenty as a dating coach. By my back-of-the-napkin calculations, less than half the people (men and women alike) on online dating sites are there because they are serious (and ready) for a long-term…

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7 months ago

The 3H Method – How to Know What You Want in Love After 60

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, I don’t even know what I want anymore… you’re not alone. And if you’ve ever wondered, Why do I keep attracting the same kind of man? you’re obviously not literally attracting the “same man” – but you…

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8 months ago

Getting Ready to Date Again: Top 10 Things to Do

If you’re over 60 and thinking about dating again – maybe toying with it as a New Year’s resolution – this article is for YOU, loves! Whether it’s been a few years…

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8 months ago

Opening the Door to Love Again After a Loss

Not long ago, I met a very lovely lady who enthusiastically shared her story of love lost and found again. She explained how her husband had died 20 years earlier. Years later, after vowing that she would never love anyone else, this woman found herself…

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9 months ago

Body Image and Dating Over 60: What’s Really Holding You Back

If you are one of those women who looks in the mirror and criticizes what you see – your face, neck, arms, breasts, hips, thighs, tummy, tush, or veins, your wrinkles, your age spots, or your rolls (oh, the list goes on!) – you are not alone. But you do have a poignant choice to make…

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9 months ago

Tackling the 4 Unsuccessful Dating Habits That Mature Women Develop

Mature women are not that much different than their younger counterparts when it comes to dating. They want to love and be loved. Yet, because they’ve had decades to master the art of dating, they often pick up…

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