Review: Beginning again over the hill
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
Dating is rough at any age. For some people (myself included), forming meaningful relationships of any kind can be hard enough. After a divorce, I want another go at what Samuel Johnson called the victory of hope over experience. Yes. People over 50 have life experiences that younger people don't. Some of them can make the dating process easier. Many of them add new layers of uncertainty or complication. Hough has written a useful guidebook. It has 16 short chapters, each dealing with questions like how to rebuild trust, how to deal with children from a previous marriage, how soon after a death or divorce to start dating again, etc. Not everyone will have to deal with all of the questions. Hough's advice is both cautioning and reassuring. Perhaps not every reader will agree with all of the advice, but it certainly provides food for careful thought. The bottom line? Yes. It is possible to fall in love again--or for the first time--over 50, no matter what life has dished out before.