Dating For Women Over 60
Should Women Over 60 Start Dating?
Ladies just because you are over 60 does not mean you are old! Dating after losing a spouse or if you are single today is not unheard-of you are not destined to spend the rest of your life alone.
Women are known to live longer than our men counterparts and there is no reason at all that dating a younger man today is not acceptable. That is unless you are looking at someone outrageously younger than you.
Actually, in my case I lost my husband just over a year ago, he was a little over five years younger than I am now. Meaning I lost him at a young age for a man at only 56 years old.
A couple of months after my husband’s passing people started to ask me if I was going to start dating again. At that time my reply was “Are you crazy?” thinking at my age dating would be out of the question.
It is now a year and some months later and I have been considering the possibility. Not because I would want to get married again twice was really enough in my book at least at this time in my mind.
But more for companionship to have someone to talk to and spend some quality time with. Eating alone most days I do not eat properly cooking for one has not been something I have mastered.
Coming from a large family I am used to cooking for a number of people plus having two boys that loved to eat cooking extra while they were growing up was natural for me.
Having friends and family that live close by I do get to go out often enough to eat bringing home the leftovers for another meal but that does not fill the whole month.
Due to the fact that I do not really socialize much with going to churches or places where it is possible to meet people this puts a damper on me ever meeting someone.
Bars and places like that are not my styles so that is out of the question. And as far as dating sites go I have no interest meeting someone that I cannot be sure of their intentions.
After all, I am much of a loner when I think about it so meeting someone that I am going to be compatible with is not going to be easily found.
When I had spent a few months in depression over my husband being gone I decided I needed something to do with all the extra time I now had on my hands.
Something that I had always wanted to do and never had the time or opportunity to find was a way to work at home online. One day being bored I got on the internet and started searching until I found an actual FREE website that I could join.
Shocking I know but it was absolutely FREE, you did not even need a credit card to get started with the training. So anyway that is a little off-topic but this is how I managed to meet a man who I can communicate with daily.
Best of all, we hold many of the same interests but live in completely different states. Luck would have it that I was able to meet him in person thanks to another mutual friend that I and he had met through the training.
After I returned home I got to thinking about my life and realized that I am sitting here wasting some of the very best years that I have left.
The best question that I have ever asked myself is “Why?”. Years of working raising my family, surviving a divorce starting over from having nothing working my way back up to owning my own home.
Collecting stuff for over 60 years during all this time I now have a house full of possessions that 99% of them really mean nothing. Yes, among them are things that hold sentimental value and possibly some antiques I have collected.
But what real value do these hold if they no longer bring me the happiness I once had? So I made up my mind right then that I am going to start to do what I want and enjoy whatever time I have left.
Women who are reading this over the age of 60 you need to do the same. Stop letting others tell you how you need to live and holding onto possessions that are really not bringing you any happiness.
Want to date go ahead and do so, want to find a mate to get married again what is stopping you? Society today is accepting of almost anything you can think of and just because we are now in our senior years nothing should stop us from living.
Don’t Be Foolish
I am not saying be foolish about any of this make sure all of your needs as far as housing is there prior to jumping into any moves, planning ahead for needs is imperative.
Having a space that you can call your own is important but it does not have to be a house that is not shared by others. Just because people of the opposite sex are living together does not mean they must be intimate.
Co-habitating is advantageous for other reasons having someone around to keep you from being lonely and to go places with that both of you enjoy will keep both of you healthy.
Finding a person that shares most of your interests is a wonderful way to finding that one that you can communicate with on a daily basis sharing the simple pleasures of your lives with each other.
Smartphones today make having a way to communicate in real-time or computers with email meaning communication back and forth is cost-efficient making it easy to stay in touch.
Should things evolve to the next level only time will let you known if this is a possibility just like when you were younger? All things being right you will know if that time ever comes.
Joining the dating sites is not my style and if you feel comfortable sharing on the internet then you could possibly find a person that would suit you in this fashion.
Some of you may attend Social Functions where it is possible to meet someone even churches or other outings. I am a bit backward and shy so not to sure this would have worked for me either.
Blind dates have never been something that I would consider no matter how great a person may have been when someone else talks you up that much I feel the flaws more than outweigh the good.
Now that is just my opinion, of course, guess you could say since I am in the over 60 age brackets I have been raised with old school morals, manners, and social graces.
We know that the younger generations act nothing as we did as young people, times are changing not so sure they are for the better.
But considering I might have another 30 years to live to find someone to spend time with might just be what I need to find a small piece of happiness once again.
All I know is grabbing a chance to live life doing some of the things that I would have loved to do as a young woman and did not get accomplished my age is not going to hold me back now.
In Closing
There are probably hundreds of articles about dating over the age of 60 for women on the internet. Seriously I did not even look when I began to write this one.
This is written from my heart and how I really feel about what my life has left to hold for me. Feeling that many other women out there might feel the same I just needed to let them known what they are feeling is alright.
We have the education and experience to still live doing things we did not have a chance to do when we were younger. Why should we not take the opportunity now while we are still at an age to enjoy ourselves?
Thinking about going away but do not have the available finances? Find those things you have been collecting all these years and start selling them off. Locate a cheap getaway where you want to go and just do it.
Start your own online business as I did and in a couple of years be earning a passive income that will enable you to travel when you want and where you want.
Never be afraid of the challenge’s life throws at you where there is a will there is a way. It took me years to find mine but now since I have I am not going to let anything hold me back.
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Thank you for taking the time to read “Dating for Women Over 60” I am hoping you will take my advice. Go for what you want instead of just staying put not really living life to the fullest.
Best wishes to you Go Live and Enjoy,
Susan
