This is Dating While Gray, the grown-ups guide to love, sex, and relationships. I'm Laura Stasi.

I was married for almost 30 years, and then I got divorced.

I've learned how to be great on my own, but I would like to share my life again,

and I have a lot of questions about how to get there.

So I started talking with other people 50 and older, who are looking for love or who found it in these later years.

I also spoke with dating and relationship experts. I wanted to share what I learned,

so I created this podcast. This is Stephen and so I'm recently divorced from my husband, and so I've

been back on the dating market, and I'm on four dating sites. I take introductions from

friends and have met nice people that way.

My name is Genevieve, and I am recently single after being in a relationship for about

three, four years. I've dated all kinds of men. My name is Mark. I was pretty much of a wreck

after she died. And I do not like the idea of

spending the rest of my life alone. You know, honestly, I do not like that idea. A big part of it is that

I don't like doing things alone. I don't like traveling alone. I've done it. I don't care for it.

I don't like dining out alone. You know, there's, I'm really like traveling alone. I've done it. I don't care for it. I don't like dining out alone.

You know, there's, I'm really like going to the museums and stuff here,

but I don't like doing that alone.

My name is Elaine.

Lisa was my longest relationship.

I didn't go in thinking that it wouldn't be forever,

but the fact that it wasn't, why is that a

failure? If you listen to season one, you know I've had a little trouble making romantic

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