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What is there to lose? Why I said yes to a blind date at 75 | Deborah Moggach

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 12:00

Dating when you’re over 60 is a whole new ballgame, says novelist Deborah Moggach, but that definitely isn’t a reason to give up trying

• See what happened on Deborah Moggach’s date

I realised the years were passing when an internet date cancelled because one of his teeth had fallen out. If it had been me, I would have kept quiet about it. When you’re older and looking for love, rule No 1 is to give the appearance of being hale and hearty. Nobody wants a wreck – keep that for marriage, when you’ve grown older together and have endured those vicissitudes as a couple. But if you’re single, who wants to meet somebody who mirrors back their own mortality?

Nobody looks old when you’ve lived with them for years and years – they’re still the young person you first met. But meeting somebody fresh can be quite a shock. They look so ancient . But (ha!) look in the mirror. They’re thinking exactly the same about you.

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How we met: ‘My neighbours encouraged me to call and ask her out’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 22 February - 11:00

Deborah, 67, and Maria, 70, met at a line dancing class in 1995. They fell in love and now live in Hove

After a divorce, Deborah found herself living in Portslade, Brighton, in the mid-1990s. “I had only recently come out,” she says. “I didn’t have many lesbian friends, so I’d started going out more to meet people.” She decided to give line dancing a whirl.

“I walked in and saw Maria. She was wearing a hat that looked like a flying cap and was with someone called Tanya, who I’d seen before.” She went over to say hello, but didn’t get the response she was expecting. “Tanya turned to Maria and said, ‘Do we know her?’ I was a bit crushed.”

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Blind date: ‘First impressions? She doesn’t look like a serial killer, but if she was she’d be a fit one’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 10 February - 06:00

Emily (on the left), 30, a videographer, meets Shivani, 28, a journalist and presenter

What were you hoping for?
A fun evening, meeting someone new.

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Date night.

comics.movim.eu / Belzebubs · Saturday, 6 January - 07:23

Date night.

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The moment I knew: we were a ‘sort of’ couple. But when he went on another date, I realised I wanted more

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 16 December - 19:00

Nicole Nabout and Jamie were ‘pretty ambiguous’ in their commitment to each other. But after he went out with another woman, she realised she wanted a more serious relationship

In the early 90s Jamie and I were at university together. I met him first through a friend. She was doing a show with him and apparently he had a crush on her. I encouraged her to pursue it because I thought he was cute but nothing ever happened.

About two years later we found ourselves together at a party playing a drinking game. I wasn’t looking for a relationship and, after that party, a few dates with him here and there didn’t eventuate into anything serious. He was doing his law articles and living this very adult life, while I was still in the Melbourne university theatre world. But Jamie was pretty persistent.

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This is how we do it: ‘Sometimes we go to cinemas and have sex in the back row’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 25 November - 12:00

Helena and Noel met on a swingers site for married couples but they’ve made a deep connection. So what’s next?

How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously

When Noel began to touch me I could sense him watching and listening, trying to work out precisely what gave me pleasure

I tell my wife I’m at the office and my employer thinks I’m working from home

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Sex toys, selfishness and why we won’t settle: life as a single woman, across the generations

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 25 November - 07:00

Uncoupled doesn’t have to mean incomplete. Eight writers - from their 20s to 90s - celebrate single life as a destination of its own

When my friend Moya and I got out of the taxi in my home city of Leeds, there was a period pad on the pavement, which set the tone for the night out we ended up having. I wanted to get with someone, and I knew it would happen because I tend to have a lot more success in Leeds than I do in London – up there, guys like girls in fake eyelashes who ignore the rule: “If you have your legs out you can’t show your cleavage.” I thought I’d found him at the first bar, when this guy introduced himself to me. He had curtains and a cheeky smile, was big and broad. Nice, I thought, here we go.

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Blind date goes to Amsterdam: ‘He needed a moment to settle. Perhaps he was overwhelmed by my beauty!’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 25 November - 06:00

Blind Date goes to Amsterdam, where Lennard, 38, an artist, meets Sophia, 32, an opera singer and life coach

What were you hoping for?
A nice evening with someone new. I was curious about what the evening would bring.

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Blind date: ‘I got friendly, flirtatious vibes for a first date’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 23 September, 2023 - 05:00

Jem, 26, a refugee resettlement officer, and Ruben, 28, a conservation science adviser

What were you hoping for?
Someone with whom I could share an evening of food and wine without having a bust-up.