Category Archives: Age & Dating

Being A Single Man In Your 40s, Is It Harder Or Easier To Meet Someone?

Being A Single Man In Your 40s, Is It Harder Or Easier To Meet Someone?

As a single man in your 40s, the bulk of your friends are already married or in long-term relationships.

It isn’t like when you were in your teens or twenties when the lion’s share of your friends were single.

Without single friends, there isn’t much of a pool of prospective dates in your social circle.

When you are hanging out at a friend’s home for a get-together or barbecue over the weekend, all you see are your middle-aged friends who are there with their spouses, or long-term partners, with children running around.

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Should I Apply The “Half-Your-Age-Plus-Seven” Rule When It Comes To Dating?

Should I Apply The "Half-Your-Age-Plus-Seven" Rule When It Comes To Dating?

The “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule requires that you divide your age in half and add seven to it to determine the minimum age of someone you date.

It has been around for a while as a concept, but it is antiquated.

Putting yourself into a stifling box in reference to who you date is ill-advised.

It causes you to lose out on potential partners whose ages fall below the mathematical calculation of the rule.

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