Mature Dating Over 50: What I Have Learned

I was divorced almost 4 years ago and was suddenly back on the dating scene. Now at just over 50 at the time I was in a new world. Internet dating sites! OK this should be easy. Not on your life.It used to be you went to social functions like church or the bars or dances to meet women. Well I grew out of the bar scene a long time ago, don’t have much connection with the churches and bands no matter where they play are still too loud to talk to anyone. Now it is much easier to sit at the computer and search for someone at home in your underwear. Not a real good visual I know but it is what we have come to in these changing times.To start with there are choices out there for anything you want to find in a dating site. My space is one and very popular, you can localize your search, specify your preference and search for the people you would like to meet. This makes it something of a problem because women on this site (as well as all the others) are bombarded with requests to be friends, lovers and are virtually stalked to tears by the men.One site I found very early on was Adult Friend Finder, advertised as the world’s largest Sex and Swingers site in the world. They are by the numbers but the only way to meet people from the site is to join one of the groups locally and attend “Meet and Greets”. These events are posted on the group site and not in the open so you have to belong to the group to know when these events happen. Each group has a moderator, (I am a moderator of a group) and they oversee most of these events and most are just that, meet others from the group and have a good time, they do not always include “hook-ups”, though it does happen. This site more than some of the others offers for a fee that you will be more “in demand” if you pay. This goes without saying as you can’t email or communicate with anyone other than through the group. So you rely on personal contact to get email addies or contact info from the meet and greets...Excerpted from the AFF blog, full mature dating article here. Related:            AFF Blog    |    Women and Dating    |    Senior Dating    |    Christian Dating    |    Coloring Books    |    Lingerie     |    More   |   Of Interest    |   Other   |   Also