Advice for the lovelorn in Life After 60

I won’t say that love is much different at 16 than it is at 61. (Ha, a palindrome with numbers. Okay actually more like dyslexia.) But perhaps it is. Because the older, the wiser, the more we understand. Nope, some of us make the same mistakes regardless of age!

I have come to the conclusion, that I don’t have any better answers than I did when I was younger. Could be I was gullible, could be I still am. So what have I learned about love in my few years? (depends on the approach, am I cynical, a realist, or ignorant?)

For the sake of argument, I will choose to be a realist. After all who wants to read the writing of an ignorant moron on the subject of love? Granted I am not a leading expert with 5 degrees under my belt. I do possess an honorary Ph.D. but that hardly qualifies me as an expert.

My best advice, don’t compromise your integrity or morals. Be true to yourself but also be honest with others. And perhaps most of all, love as you want to be loved.

So I leave you with a quote from my Senior yearbook written by one of my classmates that I shared one magical night with…”Don’t make love by the garden gate. The gate is blind, but the neighbors ain’t!”