Sheryl Sandberg proves that women can find love at midlife
Whether you are a fan of the advice in Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 best-seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, or not, the Facebook executive has made a lasting impression on working women. And...
View ArticleStop hoping Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston get back together
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were happy together until they weren’t and moved on. This has upset fans perhaps more then the divorce upset Brad and Jennifer themselves, and people have been...
View ArticleOlder women need more than one lover—here’s why
Sex and the City‘s Mr. Big, Chris Noth, is about to welcome baby No. 2 this year. He’s 65. Mick Jagger welcome baby No. 8 when he was 73. Billy Joel became a dad again at age 69. Ditto Steve Martin,...
View ArticleWhy older women might want a younger husband
He’s young, she’s old. Can this marriage last? Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson is 24 years older than her husband, Kiss Ass actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and although they have been...
View ArticleHere’s why more older women want to live apart from their partners
A rift is emerging between single older women and the men they date, according to a recent Globe and Mail article. Increasingly, 60-something men are discovering that women their age are all in for...
View ArticleEmma Watson, Keanu Reeves and our obsession with being partnered, even...
Two celeb romantic relationship events occurred recently that caused people to freak: Emma Watson declared that she is “self-partnered” and Keauu Reeves made a public appearance with his gray-haired...
View ArticleIt doesn’t matter that Dennis Quaid’s fiancee is so young
Dennis Quaid, 65, and his young girlfriend, Laura Savoie, 26, have just announced their engagement and people are talking. After all, she’s younger than his son Jack, 27. I know what many — perhaps...
View ArticleMyths about menopause are hurting women and men
Could menopause lead to a sexless marriage and divorce? It did for TV host Ulrika Jonsson, as she writes in frank first-person article. When menopause took its toll on her — impacting her libido,...
View ArticleWhere’s the empathy for older men who are childless?
Let’s say you always expected that you’d have kids. Then you find yourself unattached romantically and childless in your 40s or 50s, and now it seems like it’s just not going to happen. You have no...
View ArticleThe gift of later in life love
There’s been love in my life recently. Oh, not in my own life, but for two dear friends who have recently reconnected with men from their past and who are now enjoying good old-fashioned, grand,...
View ArticleIt’s OK if Yann Moix wants younger women
Yann Moix is a film director, television presenter and an award-winning writer. He’s French. He’s sorta kinda maybe attractive. He’s a 50-year-old single man. But as of this week, he may best be known...
View ArticleWhy younger women can easily play men
It seems that beautiful young women are at it again — making dupes of older men, mostly recently Maria Butina. The alleged Russian spy recently pled guilty to trying to influence U. S. policy by...
View ArticleHere’s why marriage sucks for hetero women
Marriage makes people healthy. Or at least that’s what we are constantly told, according to studies that pop up from time to time. While singles advocate Bella dePaulo frequently writes articles...
View ArticleStop assuming Brad Pitt wants a romantic partner
People are worried about Brad Pitt. Although he’s newly single and available now, ever since he and Angelina Jolie split in 2016, there’s been a kerfuffle about his dating life. “Who would have...
View ArticleGwyneth Paltrow’s conscious uncoupling will help her new marriage
Gwyneth Paltrow married for the second time, to Brad Falchuk, this past week, after her 11-year marriage to Chris Martin famously consciously uncoupled in 2014. Paltrow is now 46; this marriage won’t...
View ArticleRemarriage is changing the marital market
There’s been a lot of talk about so-called gray divorces — people aged 50 and older who exit their often long-term marriage for a variety of reasons. Some look forward to their newfound freedom as...
View ArticleMiddle-aged, dating and happy
Four years ago, I explored dating at midlife, which has proven to be one of my more popular posts. Four years ago — when I was four years younger than I am now, sigh — I noted that a number of my...
View ArticleWhat millennials can learn from gray divorce
While divorce isn’t nearly the 50 percent of all marriages we’ve been lead to believe, there’s one group that has seen the rate of divorce skyrocket — boomers, or those aged 50 and older, aka gray...
View ArticleSingle and childless at 40, and unexpected freedom
When my first marriage ended and I spent several years as a single woman in my mid- to late-20s, contentedly dating but not meeting any kind of man I’d want to partner with — OK, it was Miami in the...
View ArticleThe problem with fairy-tale weddings and happily-ever-after endings
Even if you weren’t glued to the TV to watch the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, even if you managed to avoid the hype in the months before it and even if you don’t buy into the fairy-tale...
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