Dating as a senior should be more about fun and having companionship than it used to be like which was more of looking for marriage.
Here are some tips to help seniors in the dating world:
- Meet for a coffee date for the first meeting. It’s a good idea because it keeps the date at an hour or two. Also, these places are usually crowded, well lit, safe, and perfect for meeting a stranger, if meeting a stranger of course. Don’t tell them your address.
- Never give out personal financial details to anyone you have just met.
- Trust your own instincts. If anything makes you uncomfortable, walk away.
- Watch for red flags. Pay attention to displays of anger, intense frustration, or attempts to pressure or control you. Acting in a passive-aggressive manner, making demeaning or disrespectful comments or any physically inappropriate red flags.
- If you are looking to stay as a single person, no problem just be upfront with your date that you are not trying to find a partner but just enjoy another adult’s company.
- If you are enjoying your date, mention date number two before date number one is over. Don’t use a date for a free meal.
- Live in the present and you consider that technology may be needed.
- You are never too old to be at risk for HIV. In fact, the fastest-growing AIDS rates are among people 50 and older.
- Don’t confuse sexual attraction with emotional bonding.
- Just have fun, you are not dead, and dating should be fun no matter what age. Have fun!
Rosa Julia Parra
