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On Life and Love After 50: Do Single Women 65-Plus Prefer to Live Alone?

By Tom Blake Marillee emailed, saying she had read that single women age 65-plus don’t want to live with a man. She wanted to know…

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On Life and Love After 50: The Drawing Station

By Tom Blake “Why am I here?” I thought to myself on Dec. 1 as I entered the Mission Medical Plaza on Crown Valley Parkway….

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On Life and Love After 50: Qualities Wanted in a Potential Mate

Tom Blake By Tom Blake In 2003, I published a book titled Finding Love After 50. How to Begin. Where to Go. What to Do. The…

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On Life and Love After 50: The Challenges of Senior Dating During the Pandemic

By Tom Blake For years, I’ve stated the best way for single seniors to meet potential mates is to get off the couch and out…

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On Life and Love After 50: It Could Have Been Us

By Tom Blake It’s hard to feel upbeat during this COVID-19 health crisis, with so much alarming news, and knowing that so many people are…

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On Life and Love after 50: Why Can’t Senior Men be ‘Just Friends?’

By Tom Blake  Janice, not her true name, age 70, emailed, with this question: “Why can’t senior men be ‘just friends’ with a lady? “I…

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On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: Tom’s Blunt Advice for a Lonely Widower

On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: Tom’s Blunt Advice for a Lonely Widower A 75-year-old widower of two years emailed me this…

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On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: An Evening with Rosanne Cash

By Tom Blake South Orange County seniors often ask for suggestions on how to add variety to their social routines. I can now recommend a…

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On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: The Reach of this Newspaper

My partner, Greta, and I are on Day 21 of an 82-day cruise in Asia. Being 6,100 miles away from South Orange County, it’s been…

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Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake

It’s Time to Go: Grand Asia & Pacific Cruise Reality hit me this week when a FedEx driver came to the front door of our…

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Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake

What Should Couples Older than 50 Call themselves?   In the 24 years of writing newspaper columns about age 50-plus dating and relationships, there is…

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Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake-Is Senior Online Dating: Productive? Quirky? Dangerous? Risky?

  The answer: all the above. Online dating has become a huge business. There are hundreds of sites. But does it work for seniors? Yes…and…

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Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake -A Senior Woman Blames Men for Relationship Problems

   This January, I wrote an online column about LAT (living apart together) relationships. In the article, I quoted a male reader, who said the…

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Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake : Tom Blake’s Column on Relationships Turns 24 Years Old

  Twenty-four years ago, on July 7, 1994, my first newspaper column was published. It appeared in the South County Lifestyles section of four Orange County…

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Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake

Is This Single Senior Woman Being Too Fussy in Dating Men? Senior dating is challenging. Single seniors mention that to me often. It’s particularly hard…

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