The Dating Game after 50

What is the dating game like for
those over 50? Where do you find
a date? I have several friends in that
position. And no, I DO NOT match up
people. It would be a disaster.

Most of the places you use to find
someone, are outdated. If you aren't
a bar fly, you don't want to go to the
bar to find someone. As people just
don't go out dancing anymore.

Which brings dances up, and that there
aren't the old barn dances where every
one went, single and doubles.

You die every time, a friend says, "Oh,
I have just the person for you." As they
are someone who is desperate or is too
embarrassed to tell the friend no, like you.

And dating online seems to be a disaster.
Finding the right guy seems like the chance
you have, at winning the lottery.

And when you think you might have met
Mr. Right or Miss Right, and after 6 months
or so, it just isn't working out, what then?

6 or more months of wine, cooking together,
bike ride (be it motorized or not) walks on
the beach and talking. But you find out, it
isn't to be, for what ever reason... what then?

Do you feel horrible? like a loser? or do you
see some good that came from it. That you
learn to care again. I feel like the old adage
serves in that light. It is better to love and fail,
than to never love at all.

But dating after 50 is a lot harder than it was
when you were younger. Is it because you are
more set in your ways? In a small town, it is
even worse. So I guess you find a hobby you
like and find others who like that hobby too.
Then hope life just happens.