Q: What about 60-year-olds, do they fall in love? –A Booming Baby Boomer
A: Dear Booming Boomer, Oh heavens! Do they ever! According to U.S. Census data, there are now 90-million unmarried adults–making single people, not married ones, the country’s new majority. Being single is now the most widely shared experience of adulthood! And what do single adults at 60 (with one, two or three marriages under their belts, not to mention many relationships in between) do? They date again. They have sex. They fall in love. They live together (or they don’t). They marry (or they don’t). And women of 60 and over, particularly, say they’re happier than ever, whether they’re in love or not. (Men over 60 tend to want to be married, and wither somewhat outside the institution. But then, men of ALL ages thrive in marriage!) The glory of being 60 and single is that there’s no cultural script: The culture hasn’t yet caught up with the facts (like, that you’re now a nation with a majority of single households, not married ones; and that you’re dating well into your 80s ), so it as yet has no “rules” for these lovers. And for this group–the youngest of the baby boomers just turned sixty, rules never meant all that much anyway.
Dating can be a wild adventure when there are no rules, no rituals, no predictable outcome, so you have to be fit, strong, healthy and resilient to go out there again and recover love that you once thought was gone.
Which is where I, The Love Goddess, come in. I know many of you in this glorious, sexy, happy group, and hope to hear from more of you. Your love lives matter.