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You singles out there might be interested in this article about dating into dotage.
Actually, we should all pay attention, as a pointy-eared wise sage once said, “Always in motion is the future,” and there’s no telling who among us may end up looking for a squeeze on a Saturday night.
As people are living longer and changing their ideas about old age, more seniors are dating than ever before, experts say. But many older people find that the rules of the game have changed drastically since the last time they dated, four or five decades ago.
These days, seniors are as likely to meet through online dating services or singles cruises as bingo games. Older women are confidently setting boundaries — such as refusing to cook or clean for a man — even though older single women greatly outnumber older single men. And while bringing protection once meant a purse full of mad money, seniors must now be aware of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Like the sound of it or not, Boomers are now sitting on the crinkly cusp or our Golden Years (Ack!). Being Boomer, of course, means will be doing things differently, and as a gerontology professor is quoted as saying, “It’s going to be a much bigger issue in the future. Things are more open now, and people are able to pursue what they want, and before they would have felt guilty about even thinking about it.”
Guilty about dating? No way. And not shy, either.
… an 80-year-old retired engineer from Rhode Island said he was overwhelmed by the dating world after his wife of 47 years died six years ago. He said that he discovered that most older women wanted to pay their own way on dates, were not shy about sexuality and were not interested in getting married again.
“I found that it’s an entirely whole new arrangement,” said Walsh, who wrote a book, The Senior Dating Scene, about his romantic adventures. “It was dumbfounding. But I got into the swing of things.”
I’ll be he did … and good for him!
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