All That Glitters

Dating While Gray™

Laura Stassi

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.4 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Will “The Golden Bachelor’” mirror what it’s really like to be older and on the market … or will it be a hot mess? Laura chats with a “Bachelor” fan who’s also a millennial professor with a research focus on older-adult dating. Then Laura hears from Veronica, who went through the application process. Plus, Dating While Gray listeners offer their hot takes on whether the tried-and-true format will succeed with a more mature crowd.

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0:00.0	This is kind of like the dating game from the 60s on steroids.
0:09.0	I really hope they're not strutting around in bikinis and drinking champagne in the hot tub.
0:16.0	If that's what people want, but that's not for me.
0:20.0	There are some marriages that have come out of it. that's what people want, but that's not for me.
0:24.4	There are some marriages that have come out of it.
0:26.4	Oh, that's the big question.
0:31.1	I wouldn't want to date nine or ten or twelve or twenty people all at once.
0:32.7	It's hard enough to date one person.
0:42.5	At this stage of life, do you really want to meet someone under those conditions and say, hey, what the hell?
0:43.5	I'm going to marry this guy.
0:45.9	I just, come on.
0:50.2	I wish everybody the best, but I have some real concerns about how anybody can make those sorts of decisions in such a short time frame and have any confidence that they're going to be correct and the best for everybody involved.
1:10.4	I'm Laura Stasi. Have you heard the news? There's a reality television show about finding a
1:15.9	partner for life. And the twist, the contestants are all in the dating while gray demographic.
1:22.6	I wonder, will the TV show accurately represent what it's like to be looking for love in the second half of life?
1:29.7	Or will it be a golden hot mess?
1:33.2	All that glitters coming up next.
1:39.6	Maybe you remember this Dating Well Gray episode from 2020.
1:43.5	A woman we called Sandy described an awkward fix-up situation.
1:47.4	It was really weird.
1:49.2	They invited my family, my sister, my sister-in-law, and a bunch of single women.
1:55.3	Like, it was the bachelor or something.
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