Finding yourself single and over 50 can be like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole. For women, even the statistics are topsy-turvy. * Older men are nearly twice as likely to be married as older women. * Almost half of women over 65 live alone compared with one in six men. What a great movie! The girlfriend and I went to see this in the theater, and we both enjoyed it immensely. As a comedy alone, there were many good laughs and down right hilarious parts to enjoy. As a movie to take a girl or guy on a date – it has one of those “make-you-feel-good endings” that will make you happy to hold hands when you leave the theater. As a movie for singles who could learn some dating rules, it’s great for women to see things from the guys perspective, as is shown quite well in this flick. And, oh, how the dating game has changed from the '40s and '50s!Mature dating encompasses a wide range of interests and stages of life: whether you're dating as a single parent, a Christian, a pet-lover, interested in plus size dating , over 40, over 50 dating over-60, over-70, dating after divorce, a widow or widower, or never married, there's a mature personals site out there for you. Our online dating service review looks at senior dating sites that have specifically targeted singles who are over 40. We've looked at popular senior dating websites and reviewed them for quality, value, and features. We sign up for a basic (free) membership with all the mature dating sites we review, and have only listed those we think are worthwhile. With nearly 300,000 members over 40 in the US alone (26,000 in Canada, 41,000 in the UK), you're not going to have difficulty finding someone in your area in the age range you're after. If you click on "Browse" you'll see a listing of all the countries Senior FriendFinder covers, and how many people are enrolled in each province or state, or country.Senior FriendFinder.com is the granddaddy of senior dating online. Part of the Friend Finder Network, this site's been online since 1996, and has over 400,000 members in over-40 category alone. This Friend Finder site offers good value for money to the senior single, and a plethora of features on their website. Free membership: Yes. With a free membership on SeniorFriendFinder you can: * Post your profile with a photo * Search the database for members you like (limited ability to search and view full profiles) * Read the onsite blogs * Read the onsite magazine * Use the chatroom * Read and reply to emails (but you can't initiate contact). However, paying members can opt to let free members have unlimited contact with them. * Read and reply to Instant Messages (you can't initiate contact). Paid members can do everything a free member can, plus: Paid membership: SILVER: * View full profiles * Contact other members via email, chat, or instant messaging * Partial access to blogs, magazine and groups. * Profiles lists below Gold members in searches * Contact new members. * View members' video profiles * Read and reply to Instant Messages (you can't initiate contact). Paid membership: GOLD: * Gold members have exclusive access to new members for 3 days. * Rank first in profile searches (above free members) * Full access to blogs, magazine and groups * Use advanced search function. * Full access to member video intros * Gold members can opt to allow free members to have contact with them (thus getting around the limitations placed on free members initiating contact). * Get faster technical support, profile and photo uploads. Money Matters Paid membership: 12 months: Gold: $140 Silver: $100 Paid membership: 3 months: Gold: $60 Silver $34 Paid membership: 1 month: Gold: $35 Silver: $23 Payment options: Online with a credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover). Renewal: Renewal is automatic, but there's a facility on your Billing History and Credit Card info page that lets you turn this feature off if you decide not to renew. Open to: Worldwide, and there's a good selection of profiles even in smaller countries. Features: * SeniorFriendFinder has a huge membership (over 400,000 members over 40). * There's lots to do on the site: with chat, instant messaging, a magazine, and member blogs. * The site demands a valid (verifiable) email address to join. * Online magazine: there are multiple articles on first dates, dating safety, etc., to which members can contribute. * Onsite blogs, to which standard (free) members can contribute as well. * Verified member option (where members can opt to supply ID to prove their identity). We like: SeniorFriendFinder is a well established, well respected site with a large pool of potential partners to choose from. The ability to browse countries, and to see how many members there are in each city/area is invaluable. Free members can access more features than on most dating sites. We don't like: Nothing, so far. This is a good feature, as you can view how many available singles are in your area before enrolling for a free membership. This openness about membership numbers is refreshing, to say the least. It's hard to tell if some sites have any members, let alone hundreds of thousands! Given a choice, we vote for hundreds of thousands. Today, Grandmas buy Trojans along with their Fixodent. Grandpas puzzle over whether to hold doors for their dates. Elderly-daters haggle over who pays for the movie.Why do we need Senior Dating Site Reviews? Because mature dating (and hence matures singles) has become big business, with more than 50% of all singles now over the age of 40. And big business means there are sure to be some fly-by-night dating sites out there. So we're aiming to find the good guys in the older dating web sphere. Although folks like Tony Bennett and Cher prove that we've all got a comeback in us, at our age every date severely tests that theory. Frequently, codger-daters turn to local dating services or the Internet in search of Mr. or Ms. Right. My friend Doris has found a dozen dates through a senior dating service in St. Petersburg. The first was tighter than Jack Benny, insisting that she pay half the gas to go two miles to dinner. The second kept calling her "Cutie Pie" even over strident protests. The third announced that he'd taken Viagra and was primed for a "night to remember." Although "getting lucky" may once again mean more than finding your car in Wal-Mart's parking lot, respect must still be part of the game. Or so 70-ish Doris believes. She says the biggest problems with men of her generation are: * They never listen. * They talk of nothing but themselves. Date 10, for example, yakked only about his ex-wives, claiming "women I date love to hear about them." Right. Still, Doris is game to keep looking, saying, "If God had meant me to live alone, I wouldn't have dresses with buttons in the back." Dating By Search Engine If we are to believe our e-mail spam, every person between the ages of 50 to 90 is now hooking up on line with his or her dream date. Except you. Just this morning, an e-mail dating service offered me a drop-dead gorgeous blonde saying, "I just joined. Wanna chat? ;-)" You know what she wants. Another service says it has over 3-million active members "connecting." Under the subject line: "I have a crush on you," the www.date.com site claims to have "5 Million Beautiful Singles and 1 Ugly One." No mystery which one you'll get if you join. Search "Senior Dating" on Google and you'll find about 473,000 entries, most from services promising love, sex, riches, and the moon. Yet senior women tell me that they're lucky to find a man who can remember where he left his teeth. "Men think they're doing you such a favor by going out with you." That is the universal feeling among re-dating women. "They all think they're 10s and you're a 2," said one. "Men believe mature women need nothing more than a warm body who doesn't miss the toilet too often." Women have higher expectations. Much higher. Meet my friend Joan. She's tried computer dating with love@aol.com (now inactive), AARP, even some of the pricey dating sites. "The chat rooms are dreadful," she says. "Just a bunch of boring people with no agenda but to ‘hang out.‘" Joan's first computer date turned out to be homeless in real life. Homeless, and horny for oral sex — not a good combination as far as she was concerned. Others were liars, were condescending, or were sick unto death. One 59-year-old Suddenly Senior reader wrote, "I love younger men because most men my age have medical problems." And she's not yet 60. For a man's point of view on all this, I called five senior dating services asking to talk to men with successful experiences. None responded. Maybe old-fashioned newspaper ads are still best. Reportedly, the following ran in the Atlanta Constitution (although it's probably urban legend): SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good-looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. Rub me the right way and watch me respond. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Kiss me and I'm yours. Caland I'm told that 643 men called and found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black Labrador retriever. We men are so easy! Want to comment on this week's Suddenly Senior column? Click here! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WANT TO GET SUDDENLY SENIOR WITHOUT FAIL IN YOUR E-MAIL? ABSOLUTELY FREE! CLICK HERE AND SEND A BLANK E-MAIL. GET THE WEEK'S BEST JOKES, TOO, BY CLICKING HERE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See a list and summaries of all recent Suddenly Senior columns. Click here! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send this column to like-minded friends. Simply forward, or copy, then paste it into an e-mail. ------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUDDENLY SENIOR'S "111 BEST SENIOR LINKS" IS UPDATED DAILY Looking for the Web's most useful links for senior job searchers, for alternative news, for senior benefits, for grannies, for drug cards and discounts, for senior games, for money matters, for the best phone rates, for travel news and info, even for complaining to and about nonresponding companies, there's no better links page than http://www.suddenlysenior.com/links.shtml Read last week's column: NEW DRUG BILL NOW SMELLS LIKE OUTHOUSE Congress has turned the promised Medicare drug "benefit" into pile of crap that has even Washington holding its nose. Read how drug companies have sabotaged democracy and incited the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history. On us.

 

Finding yourself single and over 50 can be like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole. For women, even the statistics are topsy-turvy. * Older men are nearly twice as likely to be married as older women. * Almost half of women over 65 live alone compared with one in six men. What a great movie! The girlfriend and I went to see this in the theater, and we both enjoyed it immensely. As a comedy alone, there were many good laughs and down right hilarious parts to enjoy. As a movie to take a girl or guy on a date – it has one of those “make-you-feel-good endings” that will make you happy to hold hands when you leave the theater. As a movie for singles who could learn some dating rules, it’s great for women to see things from the guys perspective, as is shown quite well in this flick. And, oh, how the dating game has changed from the '40s and '50s!Mature dating encompasses a wide range of interests and stages of life: whether you're dating as a single parent, a Christian, a pet-lover, interested in plus size dating , over 40, over 50 dating over-60, over-70, dating after divorce, a widow or widower, or never married, there's a mature personals site out there for you. Our online dating service review looks at senior dating sites that have specifically targeted singles who are over 40. We've looked at popular senior dating websites and reviewed them for quality, value, and features. We sign up for a basic (free) membership with all the mature dating sites we review, and have only listed those we think are worthwhile. With nearly 300,000 members over 40 in the US alone (26,000 in Canada, 41,000 in the UK), you're not going to have difficulty finding someone in your area in the age range you're after. If you click on "Browse" you'll see a listing of all the countries Senior FriendFinder covers, and how many people are enrolled in each province or state, or country.Senior FriendFinder.com is the granddaddy of senior dating online. Part of the Friend Finder Network, this site's been online since 1996, and has over 400,000 members in over-40 category alone. This Friend Finder site offers good value for money to the senior single, and a plethora of features on their website. Free membership: Yes. With a free membership on SeniorFriendFinder you can: * Post your profile with a photo * Search the database for members you like (limited ability to search and view full profiles) * Read the onsite blogs * Read the onsite magazine * Use the chatroom * Read and reply to emails (but you can't initiate contact). However, paying members can opt to let free members have unlimited contact with them. * Read and reply to Instant Messages (you can't initiate contact). Paid members can do everything a free member can, plus: Paid membership: SILVER: * View full profiles * Contact other members via email, chat, or instant messaging * Partial access to blogs, magazine and groups. * Profiles lists below Gold members in searches * Contact new members. * View members' video profiles * Read and reply to Instant Messages (you can't initiate contact). Paid membership: GOLD: * Gold members have exclusive access to new members for 3 days. * Rank first in profile searches (above free members) * Full access to blogs, magazine and groups * Use advanced search function. * Full access to member video intros * Gold members can opt to allow free members to have contact with them (thus getting around the limitations placed on free members initiating contact). * Get faster technical support, profile and photo uploads. Money Matters Paid membership: 12 months: Gold: $140 Silver: $100 Paid membership: 3 months: Gold: $60 Silver $34 Paid membership: 1 month: Gold: $35 Silver: $23 Payment options: Online with a credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover). Renewal: Renewal is automatic, but there's a facility on your Billing History and Credit Card info page that lets you turn this feature off if you decide not to renew. Open to: Worldwide, and there's a good selection of profiles even in smaller countries. Features: * SeniorFriendFinder has a huge membership (over 400,000 members over 40). * There's lots to do on the site: with chat, instant messaging, a magazine, and member blogs. * The site demands a valid (verifiable) email address to join. * Online magazine: there are multiple articles on first dates, dating safety, etc., to which members can contribute. * Onsite blogs, to which standard (free) members can contribute as well. * Verified member option (where members can opt to supply ID to prove their identity). We like: SeniorFriendFinder is a well established, well respected site with a large pool of potential partners to choose from. The ability to browse countries, and to see how many members there are in each city/area is invaluable. Free members can access more features than on most dating sites. We don't like: Nothing, so far. This is a good feature, as you can view how many available singles are in your area before enrolling for a free membership. This openness about membership numbers is refreshing, to say the least. It's hard to tell if some sites have any members, let alone hundreds of thousands! Given a choice, we vote for hundreds of thousands. Today, Grandmas buy Trojans along with their Fixodent. Grandpas puzzle over whether to hold doors for their dates. Elderly-daters haggle over who pays for the movie.Why do we need Senior Dating Site Reviews? Because mature dating (and hence matures singles) has become big business, with more than 50% of all singles now over the age of 40. And big business means there are sure to be some fly-by-night dating sites out there. So we're aiming to find the good guys in the older dating web sphere. Although folks like Tony Bennett and Cher prove that we've all got a comeback in us, at our age every date severely tests that theory. Frequently, codger-daters turn to local dating services or the Internet in search of Mr. or Ms. Right. My friend Doris has found a dozen dates through a senior dating service in St. Petersburg. The first was tighter than Jack Benny, insisting that she pay half the gas to go two miles to dinner. The second kept calling her "Cutie Pie" even over strident protests. The third announced that he'd taken Viagra and was primed for a "night to remember." Although "getting lucky" may once again mean more than finding your car in Wal-Mart's parking lot, respect must still be part of the game. Or so 70-ish Doris believes. She says the biggest problems with men of her generation are: * They never listen. * They talk of nothing but themselves. Date 10, for example, yakked only about his ex-wives, claiming "women I date love to hear about them." Right. Still, Doris is game to keep looking, saying, "If God had meant me to live alone, I wouldn't have dresses with buttons in the back." Dating By Search Engine If we are to believe our e-mail spam, every person between the ages of 50 to 90 is now hooking up on line with his or her dream date. Except you. Just this morning, an e-mail dating service offered me a drop-dead gorgeous blonde saying, "I just joined. Wanna chat? ;-)" You know what she wants. Another service says it has over 3-million active members "connecting." Under the subject line: "I have a crush on you," the www.date.com site claims to have "5 Million Beautiful Singles and 1 Ugly One." No mystery which one you'll get if you join. Search "Senior Dating" on Google and you'll find about 473,000 entries, most from services promising love, sex, riches, and the moon. Yet senior women tell me that they're lucky to find a man who can remember where he left his teeth. "Men think they're doing you such a favor by going out with you." That is the universal feeling among re-dating women. "They all think they're 10s and you're a 2," said one. "Men believe mature women need nothing more than a warm body who doesn't miss the toilet too often." Women have higher expectations. Much higher. Meet my friend Joan. She's tried computer dating with love@aol.com (now inactive), AARP, even some of the pricey dating sites. "The chat rooms are dreadful," she says. "Just a bunch of boring people with no agenda but to ‘hang out.‘" Joan's first computer date turned out to be homeless in real life. Homeless, and horny for oral sex — not a good combination as far as she was concerned. Others were liars, were condescending, or were sick unto death. One 59-year-old Suddenly Senior reader wrote, "I love younger men because most men my age have medical problems." And she's not yet 60. For a man's point of view on all this, I called five senior dating services asking to talk to men with successful experiences. None responded. Maybe old-fashioned newspaper ads are still best. Reportedly, the following ran in the Atlanta Constitution (although it's probably urban legend): SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good-looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. Rub me the right way and watch me respond. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Kiss me and I'm yours. Caland I'm told that 643 men called and found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society about an 8-week old black Labrador retriever. We men are so easy! Want to comment on this week's Suddenly Senior column? Click here! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WANT TO GET SUDDENLY SENIOR WITHOUT FAIL IN YOUR E-MAIL? ABSOLUTELY FREE! CLICK HERE AND SEND A BLANK E-MAIL. GET THE WEEK'S BEST JOKES, TOO, BY CLICKING HERE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See a list and summaries of all recent Suddenly Senior columns. Click here! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send this column to like-minded friends. Simply forward, or copy, then paste it into an e-mail. ------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUDDENLY SENIOR'S "111 BEST SENIOR LINKS" IS UPDATED DAILY Looking for the Web's most useful links for senior job searchers, for alternative news, for senior benefits, for grannies, for drug cards and discounts, for senior games, for money matters, for the best phone rates, for travel news and info, even for complaining to and about nonresponding companies, there's no better links page than http://www.suddenlysenior.com/links.shtml Read last week's column: NEW DRUG BILL NOW SMELLS LIKE OUTHOUSE Congress has turned the promised Medicare drug "benefit" into pile of crap that has even Washington holding its nose. Read how drug companies have sabotaged democracy and incited the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history. On us.