What You Need to Know About Senior Relationships and Dating
It can be the most exciting time of your life, if you allow it to be. When it comes to senior relationships and dating, making sure you have success is as simple as making sure you don’t limit yourself. Despite the fact that you’ve entered the latter part of your life, you can make it the most exciting time ever, if you remember to put aside the fear and anxiety and let yourself be open to a new experience.
“I used to be afraid of dating after I retired,” says Dorothy, a former nurse who lost her husband to cancer at age 64. “I was always worried what people would think of me. I was married to my husband for over forty years, so how would my family and friends take it if I decided to tell them I was dating again. Well, I met a gentlemen who I really hit it off with and we dated secretly for nine months before I told anyone. As it turns out, I had nothing to be afraid of”.
Dorothy was worried about how people would perceive her actions. Senior relationships and dating can sometimes be negatively affected or stifled completely by the false impression that family or...