As I age, I wonder why it is so hard to find seniors who are single and needing companionship. I see people daily in stores and walking alone. It seems extermely harder as you age to find someone to spend time with of the opposite sex, I am straight, 5 feet 8 about 180 lbs. and in decent health, clean and discreet. I like playing pool and bowling and walking, movies. I am a non-drinker, and a non, smoker too. I try to maintain myself well and dress decent also if I go out. yet, i find no single women in the age range of 65 to 75, near me interested. I guess, as we age we lose interest in dating or trying to. I don’t think I am alone either for it seems to be aproblem across Massachuetts and the whole country.
Some recommend trying web site/ dating sites. I disagree, they eat your money and most get you no where. Too many fakes and silly profiles. I looked thru Match, Plenty of Fish, Silver Singles, and more. I find nice converstaions at times, but very few who are real or wanting to actually meet or get together. Fear of being taken for money, or belongings, or fear of stalkers, iare main reasons. I get it I do, but, in the end, it leads to just more lonely people stumbling thru life, trying to get along on their own. I don’t see, Singles Dances around at all, like back in the day when I met my wife years ago. I don’t see many events made or geared to people finding love or companionship either. Most are now, Dating Sites that take your money and get you no where. So what does a Senior person do these days? I have no idea.
I do live in a 55 plus community, but, I will not date a woman here, no matter what Ithink of her. Why, simple, these communities are like Peyton Place, everyone talks. everyone is in everyone else’s business all the time. So, if your a man and date someone here, and it goes wrong, your whole reputation and life gets ruined, because you will be judge as the reason it all went bad. Just a fact folks. So the real question is what does one do, in this situation these days?
Basically, I see no solution, because of fears, economy, and many avoiding dating, due to all. My guess there will probaly be more Lonely senior like myself as time goes on with the same fears and worries. Will it change I doubt it, for the older you get the worse the possibilities get too.
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