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 Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX A Living-Apart Together Relationship (LAT) May Be the Perfect Arrangement On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake At age 78, Judy (not her real name) is confused about her relationship. She asked for advice….
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: Should Single Seniors Make List of Qualities They Seek In A Mate? By Tom Blake I’ve often received comments from senior singles regarding the wisdom of making a list of qualities they seek in a mate. This…
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…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: 11 ‘Multiple Marriages’ Factors to Consider By Tom Blake In 25 years of writing about senior dating, there’s one topic I’ve been asked about at least 200 times, and I feel…
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: It’s Time to Go: Grand Asia & Pacific Cruise By Tom Blake Reality hit me this week when a FedEx driver came to the front door of our Dana Point home and picked up…
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: Tom’s Friend Intends To Be the Caregiver for His Mother By Tom Blake Often, as seniors age, a new and unexpected challenge can arise: caregiving. It could be for a spouse, significant other, sibling or…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Regardless of Age, Pursue Your Passion By Tom Blake “Now that you are retired, what do you do?” is a question I’ve been asked often in the last three and a…
