To resuscitate face-to-face encounters, more men need to show up. If they don’t like line dancing or pickleball or book groups or Sunday services, then I implore them to devise ways to fulfill their fondest dreams in person. The women will be there.
Category Archives: Daring to Date Again
OK Cupid Is Entertaining and Saves You Time
OK Cupid wastes less of your precious time learning attributes and preferences that you might not get to for a long time on a connection you make on Match.com.
Internet Dating Then (2004) and Now (2024)
The fundamental question remains—do you want to know the truth, or do you want to pretend that life is as you would like it to be?
More 81 on Match.com
I imagine this man is only one-tenth as callous in person as he is online.
Eighty-One and on Match.com
I’ll leave it to readers to react to this post in their own ways.
Limerence, the Insanity of Crushes
No shroud can erase our romantic fantasies.
MAY-DECEMBER (lose the Cougar)
In 2003, the very beginning of online dating, I created my profile as a wild experiment. I posted an up-to-date photo and my true age, 60. Most of the men who contacted me spoke in tongues about what they wanted, but Ken, a 37-year-old policeman was clear. He wanted a “friend with benefits” I askedContinue reading “MAY-DECEMBER (lose the Cougar)”
Is Sex Like Riding a Bicycle?
I could lift heavy things, buy a house, repair a lamp, and send my kids to college. What did I need a man for?
THE BENEFIT OF LIVING WITH A GROWN-UP
My husband Terry takes good care of me. I got my first chance to appreciate how precious that was a year into our marriage when I was on crutches after breaking a bone in my foot. I could I relax. I didn’t have to get back on my feet until I was ready. I wasContinue reading “THE BENEFIT OF LIVING WITH A GROWN-UP”