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Dating While Gray™

Together and Apart: Two Updates

Dating While Gray™

Laura Stassi

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.4650 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On the eve of Valentine’s Day, Dating While Gray continues its year-round mission of offering insights and advice on love, sex, and relationships for people of a certain age. On this episode, Laura checks in with two gray daters who previously shared their compelling true stories. Has Betty’s whirlwind, pandemic-born romance stood the test of time? Evelyn and her partner are enjoying living side by side in a duplex But did the courts give it the official Live Apart Together kiss of approval?

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0:00.0

Welcome to February, the month when love seems to be the topic of discussion.

0:11.5

But as you already know, we here at Dating While Gray have romance on our minds year round.

0:17.0

No matter what the season, we offer advice and insights on love, sex, and relationships

0:22.7

at age 50 and beyond. I'm Lorstasi, and I'm no expert. I am a curious journalist, and I'm

0:30.7

navigating the older love scene myself. So I interview researchers, attorneys, therapists,

0:36.3

relationship coaches. I also share true stories from

0:39.8

the trenches, my own and yours, whether divorced, widowed, or never married. One thing I've learned

0:46.4

since launching this show, happily ever after is not an endpoint, but a journey. So occasionally,

0:52.8

I check in with gradeators

0:54.3

who've stories we've shared over the past five years.

0:57.9

On this episode, we're following up with a pair of

1:00.7

particularly interesting true tales.

1:03.6

Together and apart, two updates.

1:09.3

It's almost Valentine's Day.

1:11.7

Surely you know that, but did you know, February 14th is also National Quirky Alone Day.

1:19.2

I'm just finding out about it.

1:21.1

But apparently this was declared back in the early 2000s by a woman writer and now life coach.

1:26.6

She coined the term quirky alone, one word,

1:29.8

to describe people who feel complete, even though they're uncoupled. They'd rather not date at all

1:35.6

than be part of an unfulfilling romantic partnership. Okay, I appreciate the sentiment. Although I have to

1:42.9

say, I think the label is kind of silly. Quarky means

1:47.4

peculiar, unconventional. What's so quirky about being solo and enjoying it? Isn't that the goal for

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