0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: New Mates’ Family Members Threatened by Potential Loss of Inheritance Tom Blake By Tom Blake On Sunday, Jan. 5, my partner, Greta, and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, Knives Out. As we settled into our…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Hot Potato Topic – Women Dating Younger Men Tom Blake By Tom Blake I met Jackie at one of our senior Meet and Greet gatherings in Dana Point this year. She asked a…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Divorced South County Man Navigates the Dating Scene By Tom Blake Tom Blake As a senior dating columnist, my job is never boring. Danny emailed, “I enjoy reading your column in the Dana…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: San Clemente Couple Overcomes Relationship Challenges By Tom Blake Tom Blake San Clemente residents Chris and Christine (Tina) Anastasio are no strangers to my newspaper columns. In the 15 years I’ve…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Why I’m Not a Matchmaker By Tom Blake Tom Blake I’m a newspaper columnist. My topic: people age 50-plus seeking love. For 26 years, I’ve written about hundreds of seniors…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Widow Has Given Up on Dating, But Should She? By Tom Blake Michele wrote, “I don’t participate in dating. I’ve been widowed for 18 years (at age 49) and still miss my husband. I tried online…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines 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…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Love and Life after 50: Where are the single men? By Tom Blake In 1961, Connie Francis had a popular song called “Where the Boys Are,” which was on the song track for a movie…
0 EYE ON SC, News Bites San Clemente Man Competes on this Season’s The Bachelorette Staff A 31-year-old San Clemente man, Grant Eckel, is one of 30 contestants on the 15th season of ABC’s The Bachelorette, vying for the heart…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Long-Distance Dating a Challenge for Seniors By Tom Blake In my previous article, I wrote about a widower, age 75, whose wife passed away two years ago. He’s trying online dating…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Tom’s Blunt Advice for a Lonely Widower By Tom Blake A 75-year-old widower of two years emailed me this week seeking dating advice. I’d heard from him twice before. In January, he…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Is Senior Online Dating: Productive? Quirky? Dangerous? Risky? By Tom Blake The answer: all the above. Online dating has become a huge business. There are hundreds of sites. But does it work for…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: A Senior Woman Blames Men for Relationship Problems By Tom Blake This January, I wrote an online column about LAT (living apart together) relationships. In the article, I quoted a male reader, who…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Is This Single Senior Woman Being Too Fussy in Dating Men? By Tom Blake Senior dating is challenging. Single seniors mention that to me often. It’s particularly hard for women. A comment on my Finding Love…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: How Long Should You Wait to Date after the Death of a Spouse? By Tom Blake In 24 years of writing about senior relationships, I’ve been asked many times, “How long should a widowed person wait to…
