WELLBEING
NEW YEAR, NEW PARTNER
Rosie Green dives into later-life dating and asks experts to share their top tips for finding love on the apps
Until I was 45, I’d never been on a proper date. I met my ex-husband when I was 18; we ended up as a couple after a snog at the Student Union. Nothing so formal as a pre-arranged rendezvous.
So it wasn’t until I found myself single post-divorce that I contemplated such a thing. A year after my break-up, I decided I’d like to meet someone. That isn’t unusual. Relationships researcher Helen Fisher says that searching out romantic love is part of the human condition. “It’s a need and an urge, like hunger or thirst.”