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June 5, 2007
Sweet Senior's Puppy Love
Let's face it - I'm not going to live forever, and the chances of me freezing the ageing process is mighty slim. In fact, as I grow older, and as more and more of my friends settle down to married life/kids/cautious mutual funds, the more I realize that there's a reasonable chance that I might be single when I hit the golden years. Even the approach of middle age is weighing on my mind. No one wants to be the old guy at the night club, and that goes for both middle aged men as well as the 65+ set (although I think it would still be amusing to hit the night club once when breaches age 75). It looks like I'm not alone in my worries, in light of the sheer amount of senior dating sites. There's something very pleasant about sweet senior couples, and with these kind of charmers my hopes for having a social life after 65 is boosted through the roof.
I always used to think that growing old inevitably meant a move to Miami or Arizona, polyester pants, and chronic back pain. There's been a nagging thought in the back of my brain that my kids would take care of me after a certain age, but it's becoming more apparent as the years have strolled past that I would be better off raising a series of dogs. It seems that a lot of my assumptions have been proven wrong (no surprise there). Miami's dating scene is pretty crazy, but the city has evolved far beyond the elderly paradise of the sixties and the war zone of the seventies and eighties. That's not to say that there isn't a substantial stock of snowbirds in Miami anymore (Palm Beach comes to mind) but it's definitely not the same. The bottom line is that one doesn't have to be in Miami or Phoenix if one wants to enjoy a senior social life.
The dating landscape may have changed, and will no doubt continue to change as time passes and I grow older. It's comforting to know that the possibilities for dating have also continued to evolve, and the knowledge that I don't have to be in specific elderly locale gives me something to look forward to. Longer life expectancies mean getting even more out of our time, and there's no reason for us to cut out our romantic lives after an arbitrary date. With a plethora of great senior sites out there, it looks like I won't have to be the senile lunatic at Cheers after all!
Posted by Glen at June 5, 2007 2:41 AM
