Hi everyone, Laura Stasi here.

This week, we've dug into the archives to bring you an encore episode of Dating While Gray.

Maybe you missed it the first time around.

Or maybe you're at a different place in your life and it will hit differently.

I know I always find hidden gems with every repeat listen. Please enjoy and get in touch with any questions or comments

about this episode or anything else that's on your mind about seeking, finding, and keeping

love in the later years of life. You know, I love hearing from you.

That's Laura at dating while gray.com.

Thanks in advance for reaching out, and this is Dating While Gray, the grown-up's guide to love, sex, and relationships.

Okay, who hasn't gone online to try to find a flame from our younger years. But taking the next step and

reaching out might get complicated. That's the topic of this episode, Boomerang Love.

I get so excited reading true stories about former loves who reconnect.

Like the high school sweethearts who broke up and then 33 years later, they run into each

other virtually on a website for alumni. He travels across the country to visit her and, boom,

they get back together. But not all reconnections have happy endings.

In fact, boomerang love can be tricky.

There's actually a whole body of research on this topic.

It was conducted by a psychology professor in California named Nancy Kalish.

In the early 1990s, Nancy reconnected with her college sweetheart. Sadly, it didn't work out,

but the experience prompted her to launch what she called the Lost Love Project. Nancy spent the

next quarter century, surveying people all over the world, writing books and research papers,

and establishing a website where people could join forums to talk about their experience making love connections.

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