Seniorfriendfinder: Senior citizens are logging on to find love
BARBARA STUMPF was convinced she wasn't going to meet anyone. At 65 and divorced for 18 years, she was resigned to spending the rest of her life alone. Then she saw an advertisement for an Internet dating service -- eHarmony -- on television. A few days later, she heard another eHarmony spot on the radio. "I kept hearing this, and I wondered what it was all about," said Stumpf from her home in West Chester, Pa. "I was the...
Seniorfriendfinder: SAVVY SENIOR Millions use online dating services
Dear Savvy Senior: Do you know much about senior dating services on the Internet? My two daughters have been urging me to try it, but I have some concerns. I am 59 years old, have been divorced for nine years and would like to meet some interesting new men, but the Internet seems a little strange. What can you tell me? - Single Senior Dear Single: Online dating has become wildly popular among the Boomer and senior populations over the past few years. In fact, more than 16 percent of those...
Seniorfriendfinder: Clicking Online
The author of a new book tells baby boomers how to pursue Internet dating--and how not to
"It's a date quake," says Judsen Culbreth, author of The Boomers' Guide to Online Dating. "There's a huge boom in mature online daters." Culbreth, 55, former editor of Working Mother, should know. After her 20-year marriage ended in divorce, she became a successful online dater. She shared her dating secrets with TIME's ANDREA SACHS.What was your online experience?I dated online for about...
Seniorfriendfinder: Online, A Search For Act II
LIFE, it seems, has come full circle for Hani Lipp, 63, of Boynton Beach, Fla. Divorced with grown children, she joined JDate.com, a dating site for Jewish singles, where she met "some nice people, but no one who clicked for me," said Ms. Lipp, a retired social worker who grew up in Brooklyn. Last June, she saw a familiar face: David Schoenfeld, a fellow graduate of the class of 1959 from Lafayette High School. She sent him an e-mail message: "David, is that...
Seniorfriendfinder: Romance alive, well for Flagler's senior singles
PALM COAST - Sitting at the dim corner bar Friday night, World War II veteran Ed Kitchen sips red wine, gazing across the club as several couples flock under the sparkling disco ball while the achingly romantic tune "At Last" warms the dance floor. The bar at the local Knights of Columbus serves a weekly routine for the former B-24 pilot simply because he likes to get out of the house. Though he won't reveal his age, the flirty bachelor already has decided...