Past your prime? Never!
“Ladies, don’t let anyone tell you you are ever past your prime.” - Michelle Yeoh
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again:
It’s never too late to meet someone great. You are never too old to start dating.
Nor are you too old to go skydiving, write your memoirs, run around barefoot or, yes, even win an Oscar like Michelle Yeoh who took home a gold statute a couple of weeks ago for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and (now famously) said, “Ladies, don’t let anyone tell you you are ever past your prime.”
Yeoh is 60, which we consider young (maybe that’s because that’s how old Anne is). The late great Jessica Tandy was actually the oldest woman to ever win an Oscar — at age 80, for her role in “Driving Miss Daisy.” (She was nominated again two years later for her role in “Fried Green Tomatoes.”)
You are certainly never too old for love.
In fact, people over 60 are the fastest-growing demographic in online dating.
Look at Canadians Jim Adams, a retired professor, and Adurey Coutts, a retired insurance broker, who met on the dating app Silver Singles and got married when they were 78 and 79, respectively. Their story was featured in People magazine.
Or look at my own mother.
My stepfather died five years ago when my mother was 73 years old. She mourned his passing and their 40 happy years together. And then, a couple of years after he died, she unexpectedly met a man in her seniors building and fell in love again.
He’s wonderful and makes my mom happy, which makes me very happy.
You just never know what might happen.
You never know where and how and if and when love will find you. Perhaps you’ve experienced it once, or more than once. Perhaps you’ve waited a lifetime…and are still waiting.
Don’t give up hope.
I’ll admit there were a few times when I was online dating when I wondered, “What’s the point?”
I dated a whole lot of guys over a period of about two years. None of the dates were awful, but none of the guys were a very good match. Mostly, I was disappointed. I was disappointed because they didn’t ask me much about myself or they were too conservative or too cynical or too withholding or too desperate.
None of them were right for me.
But I’m determined, some might say stubborn. And I stuck with it, aiming for a simple walk-and-talk date every couple of weeks. I tried a few different dating apps and then switched to Tinder and that’s where I found my partner, Amit. Or where he found me. We can’t quite remember who made the first move. But after a few texts back and forth, we met for a coffee in a park and the connection was immediate. We took things slow and steady. It wasn’t long before we were off the dating apps — yay!
And now here we are, offering women advice and guidance on everything we’ve learned from our own dating experiences.
