Gray Love : : Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60 / / ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Daniel E. Hood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abercrombie, Barbara,; Bauer-Maglin, Nan,; Bickley, Susan,; Blak, Judith Ugelow,; Bogen, Phyllis,; Broadwell, Laura,; Bronson, Jim,; Brown, Stephanie M.,; Carito, Phyllis,; Dunn, Sarah,; Fails, Bonnie,; Freed, Alice F.,; Friedensohn, Doris,; Goldie, Sandi,; Hill, Isabel,; Hood, Daniel E.,; Jacobson, Jan,; Josefowitz, Natasha,; Kaplan, Margie,; Katz, Jonathan Ned,; Korman, Candida B.,; Lauter, Paul,; Leung, Jean Y.,; Levy, David,; Lewittes, Hedva,; Locke, Elizabeth,; Manfred, Erica,; McVay, Cynthia,; Millett, Stacey Parkins,; Moore, Linda Wright,; O’Malley, Susan,; Page, Angela,; Peckham, Irvin,; Rogers, Amy,; Roth, Eugene,; Schwartz, Mimi,; Smith, Dustin Beall,; Speer, Stephanie,; Stein, Neil,; Thompson, Tierl,; Valenti, Vincent,; Walters, Idris,; Weisser, Susan Ostrov,; Wiesner, William,; Zabriskie, Rett,
• HerausgeberIn: Bauer-Maglin, Nan,; Hood, Daniel E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, as well as some that are unique to elder relationships. These include having had previous partners and a complicated and deep personal history; family and friends’ reactions to an older person’s dating; alternative models to marriage (such as sharing space or living apart); having more than one partner at the same time; one’s aging body, appearance, and sexuality; and the pressure of time and the specter of illness and death.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Advance praise for Gray Love -- Introduction -- Prelude -- Looking at Sixty -- PART I To Be or Not To Be in a Relationship: Tales of Humor, Disappointment, Rewards, and Personal Insight -- Not Jane Eyre’s Story -- Discovery through Online Dating Sites: A Woman’s Perspective -- Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind -- Confessions of an Online Dater -- Advertisement for Myself -- What Would I Wear? -- Something from Everyone -- A (Mostly) Amusing Exercise in Futility -- Rick Redux -- You Say Potato -- Three Dates -- Dreams and Matches in an Unsure Virtual World -- In Transition, Not Seeking for Now -- “Do You Get It Yet?” -- On the Road -- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings -- An Octogenarian’s Adventures in Online Dating -- Coping with COVID-19 -- It’s Valentine’s Day. So What! -- What’s Sex Got to Do with It? -- Gray Love en Noir: African American Women Flying Solo by Choice and by Chance -- Passion and Prejudice -- PART II The Complications and Pleasures of Elder Relationships -- Checking a Different Box -- Weume -- Begin Again? -- The Wizard of Algo -- Date, Marry, Repeat -- Late in the Dating Game: Walked, Homered, Fouled Out -- Matchmaker, Matchmaker! -- A Cozy, Crowded Bed -- Our Bench and Other Late-Life Wonders -- Love after Seventy and Eighty -- Where Is This Going? -- Pleasures and Complications: Living Apart Together -- Parallel Matches -- Reflections on “Old Love” -- A Vine of Roses -- From Texas to Ohio -- Till Illness Do Us Part? -- What Remains Has Just Begun -- At Once -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors