Dating Sites and Books for Seniors
A good, solid percentage of my Romance clients are over 60. Surprised? I’m not. On “Sunday Morning” February 20, they ran a whole segment on 70 being the new 50—in other words, people are active, engaged, and fully involved in life well into their 70’s , 80’s and beyond. Regular readers of my enewsletter *eMAIL to eMATE* know that I have living evidence of this in my own family: my mother will be 81 on her wedding day of April 2 this year, and the groom is 86! Read more here and subscribe to my newsletter if you haven’t already to follow their story.
So I am always on the look-out for resources for singles who are not teenagers. I got a book yesterday “The Senior’s Guide to Dating (Again)” by Rebecca Sharp Colmer and Todd M. Thomas which does a pretty good job on the topic. “The Senior’s Guide” is designed for seniors, for sure: Large type, short, simple descriptions in a question and answer format. Though maybe daters of all ages should read it, because lots of the advice is applicable for all ages. Like “Are there times when it is better not to date?” (When you are clinically depressed, when your spouse or partner has recently left or died, when you have lost your place to live and don’t know what you are going to do next, or when you don’t feel like dating.) Or “How do I make a good first date impression?” (Just a few of the ways: Clean breath and teeth, clip stray nose and ear hairs.)
Interestingly, the authors kept plugging a dating site I hadn’t heard of: SeniorSparks.com. So I checked it out. What came up was a simple, clear dating site format, large type again, but rather amateurish looking. Not slick at all. The site has a search box on the home page, and the age range STARTS at 65, going up to 99. So I did a search, and Surprise!!! The results took me right to Match.com! I did the search three times to check it out, I was so surprised. Evidently, SeniorSparks.com is another spur of the big guy Match.com. My searches showed lots of eligible men and women, but I could not do a search based on location. I suspect that Match.com does not have enough listings to make area searches worthwhile. But if you are looking in the 65 and over age groups and don’t mind looking all over the country, SeniorSparks.com is a good resource.
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Posted by Priti Singh on 02/06 at 05:05 AM