0 SC LIVING On Life and Love After 50: Some Women Didn’t Like Tom’s Relationship Advice Tom Blake By Tom Blake Some women didn’t like the advice I included in my most recent column: “Woman Worries That Her Boyfriend Might Leave…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Dilemma for Widows and Widowers Tom Blake By Tom Blake A senior woman emailed: “I’m dating a widower of two years. He has pictures of his deceased wife everywhere in…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: A Logo on a Hat Leads to Love After 60 Tom Blake By Tom Blake During the 26 years that I’ve written about finding love after 50, readers have shared multiple romance success stories with…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Perseverance and Senior Love Tom Blake By Tom Blake I first wrote about San Clemente resident Chris Anastasio and his girlfriend, Tina, in 2009. The story of how they…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Lying About One’s Age on a Senior Dating Profile Tom Blake By Tom Blake This month, Arlene, a South Orange County resident who’s in her mid-60s, shared a story about a man who contacted…
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 Life and Love after 50: Like A Rock By Tom Blake A week ago, my partner, Greta, and I were sitting at our desks in our home office. Out of the blue, Greta…
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…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: The People You Meet Aboard Ship on a Cruise By Tom Blake In my previous column, I wrote about an 82-day Grand Asia and Pacific cruise that my life partner, Greta, and I are…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Eight Red Flags if Widow Allows Man-Friend to Move In By Tom Blake In 24 years of writing columns about senior romance, I’ve often been asked about senior couples cohabitating. The most recent question in…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: A ‘Green’ Valentine’s Day for a Long-Distance Couple By Tom Blake Valentine’s Day is associated with red hearts, red greeting cards, red heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and red roses. But for one San…
2 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…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50: Cruising around Cape Horn and North to Rio By Tom Blake In my previous column, I wrote about seeing penguin Glenn Miller near Punta Arenas, Chile, while on a 34-day cruise from…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Widow Puzzled by a Friend’s Warning By Tom Blake Robyn, 62, a widow of five and a half years, contacted me regarding a comment a friend made to her about the…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Writing Columns for Nearly 24 Years By Tom Blake “How long have you been writing your column?” a woman I had never met asked me in the Capistrano Beach Costco…