How old is too old to be attractive, date, marry or remarry?

Too Old?

Where exactly is the cutoff age? I could just as easily have titled this post ‘Fifty-Something and Single’, ‘Sixty-Something and Single’, or even ‘Seventy or Eighty-Something and Single’. Divorce or death of a spouse can happen at any age. Then the question arises, am I too old to remarry?

What about you? Are you divorced later in life? Are you never married and entering your third, fourth, or fifth decade of life? Do you ever feel like you are too old be attractive to anybody? Do you feel like dating, love, and sex are for the young? And, where exactly is that dividing line between still young enough and too old? Forty? Fifty? Sixty? Seventy?

My Story

Let me start with a bit of my story.

It was when my ex-wife totally ignored my fortieth birthday that I knew I was in serious trouble. Shortly after that, she filed for divorce and I found out what had been going on behind my back.

So, there I was forty years old, not the best looking guy around, and reeling from the financial burdens that come with a divorce – basically, homely, broke and turning prematurely gray. Could anybody possibly be interested in someone like me?

Turns out, yes, even at my age, with my looks, and in my situation, some women still found me attractive. If you read this blog regularly, you know I have since remarried. Hopefully, you have also read my blog about the lies single people believe. In that post, I deal with the lies that you have to be extremely good looking or well-off financially to be attractive to the opposite sex.

Today, I want to deal with the myth that you have to be young to be attractive, find love, and get married. So, yeah, spoiler alert, for the most part, too old is a myth. You are not too old to find love.

Am I Too Old to be Attractive?

The short answer – no.

If you can still have good conversation, know how to make people feel good when they’re around you, still have your sense of humor, and are well dressed and well-groomed, you will still be attractive to a lot of people.

Now, if you’re fifty-something, you may not be attractive to that thirty-something-year-old who caught your eye. But, that’s okay. Go find attractive people of the opposite sex who are closer to your own age to hang out with.

If you’ve read my posts on how to be attractive, and you should, and there will be many more on that subject in the future, you know that everything I’ve written about being more attractive applies to people at pretty much any age.

Start with the basics. Keep active. Get enough sleep. Eat well. Dress appropriately. Stay well-groomed. Learn the art of conversation. Make people feel good when they’re around you. Give sincere compliments. These things make you more attractive and you can do them at almost any age.

Am I Too Old to Date?

The short answer – no.

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you probably know that I define dating as simply spending quality time with someone of the opposite sex.

How can you possibly be too old to meet someone somewhere and have a little good coffee and conversation or enjoy some other fun activity together? Most things are more enjoyable when you share the experience with a date.

So, if you can still get around okay and have the mental capacity for good conversation, why not go on dates? In my opinion, those types of dates make life better at any age. And, who knows, no matter what age you are you may find someone whose company you en...