Dating for Boomers

When you start dating again, there are inevitably issues that you might wonder about. Maybe it's a long time since you had a date. Some things in the dating world have changed. Dating for Boomers can be a challenge, more because of a lack of confidence in how this dating thing works, than for any other reason. After you've started dating and have had a few dates, or have begun establishing a relationship with someone, you may feel more confident. But in the meantime... Here are four tips to make your first few dates wonderful: Who pays? Who will pay the bill? It used to be that the man ALWAYS paid, right? Boomer men are funny about the bill. Some are very traditional and are insulted if the woman offers to pay the bill or to split the bill or pay her share of it. Others feel like they're right up with the times and expect to split the bill. Others expect to take turns. It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" situation for women. So women really o...

Remember the bad old days where you had to hang out at a bar to find a woman, or worse still, wait until a friend of yours felt sorry enough for you to set you up with one of their women friends hoping that the two of you would hit it off. Now at our age we look out of place( and downright deviate!) if we go to a disco, and let's face it, hanging out at bars week after week is soul destroying. And the biggest problem with these old systems is that we have no information on the woman when we approach her. Firstly it is scary to have to get up the courage to approach a complete stranger and start a conversation with her. Secondly, we have no idea whether she is even single and thirdly, we have no idea whether she has the basic attributes we are looking for. Let me give you an example. I have a few "no go " zones that are mandatories for me. I don't like smokers: I like my woman to be well educated and intelligent: I want someone that can string two words together effect...