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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.

1 year ago

Falling in Love in Later Life: Is It About Passion or Companionship? 

There is something quite special about falling in love when you are a little older, maybe because we didn’t see it coming! Some of my friends use internet dating to find ‘the one’, but I am not so sure I would ever try it. I find it a little black-and-white and somewhat…

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2 years ago

Why Is Vulnerability so Important in Dating?

When dating over 50, it’s not unusual for women to shy away from sharing their true feelings, fears, or insecurities because so often the judgement and rejection of the past is still hurtful. However, vulnerability is one of the most crucial ingredients for building a healthy…

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2 years ago

What Does October Theory Have to Do with Dating? A Lot, It Seems!

I was already working on this article over the weekend, when yesterday, I stumbled on a piece of writing published in the Wall Street Journal, titled “October is the Time to Reset Goals” by Ann-Marie Alcantara. I was amazed by the coincidence and thought…

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2 years ago

11 Awful Opening Lines You Need to Delete from Your Online Dating Profile

When it comes to online dating profiles, I’ve realized that intelligence has nothing to do with writing a good paragraph about yourself. In fact, there are times I feel there is an inverse correlation between intelligence and online dating…

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2 years ago

Finding Love After 60 – Advice from the Sixty and Me Community

Dating over 60 is a major topic of discussion and curiosity for women in the Sixty and Me community – and with good reason. Many women over 60 are embarking on a new stage of life with different relationship statuses…

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2 years ago

How My Ah-Ha Moment Turned into Dating with Intention

This spring I met someone special and had an instant connection. I really like him, and he felt the same way. But then through no fault of either of us, we ended things due to some personal issues. My heart wasn’t broken because we didn’t date long…

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2 years ago

Are You Dating a Narcissist? Watch for these 3 Warning Signs

Finding your way through the dating world after 50 can be a real struggle, especially when you attract narcissistic men who create additional emotional chaos for you. One of the reasons you might fall in love with a narcissist is because he has the ability…

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2 years ago

Are You Not Enough – or Too Much?

Whether you’ve been single for a while or are newly navigating the dating scene after a major life change, it’s easy to feel like you’re either not enough or too much to attract the type of man you’d like to date. But here’s a comforting truth…

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2 years ago

Is There a Downside to Dating UP?

Considering our cultural norms, men traditionally make more money and are more highly educated than women who were born in the 1950s and earlier. Although today more women than men are pursuing master’s degrees, men are still making more in the workforce…

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2 years ago

8 Unmistakable Signs That You May Have Met the Perfect Match

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you walked away and suddenly felt a sense of freedom? Perhaps it was a toxic workplace, a harmful relationship, or distancing yourself from a negative friend. The outcome, however…

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