Dating After 50: Negotiating the Minefields of Mid-Life Romance (The Best Half of Life) [Paperback]

Sharon Romm MD (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Best Half of Life | Publication Date: October 1, 2004

In Dating After 50, readers learn the safest and most efficient way to find dates, but the guidance doesn’t end once they’ve planned a second date. Romm provides sound advice on managing second families, jealousy, former spouses, rejection, money, benefits, retirement, and a host of other issues common to later-life relationships.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Linden Publishing (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884956394
• ISBN-13: 978-1884956393
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #604,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I sure do wish this was a better book!, December 8, 2004

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Kathryn Lord "Your Romance Coach" (Tallahassee, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dating After 50: Negotiating the Minefields of Mid-Life Romance (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)

Since many of my clients are indeed over 50, I had high hopes for Sharon Romm's *Dating After 50: Negotiating the Minefields of Midlife Romance* Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Despite the author's professional background (psychiatry) and personal dating experience (an active date search with 751 responses before meeting her now-boyfriend), I found her suggestions tedious, simplistic, and depressing. Her orientation towards the reader's search is so cautious and wary that I even felt a little frightened. Maybe that's where the *minefields* of the title came from. Granted, mate searching at any age has it's difficulties, but finding a Sweetheart doesn't have to be as hard as the author alludes. Believe it or not, she ends the book with a chapter entitled *Breaking Up*! While certainly when and how to break off a romantic relationship are important skills, to end a book on dating with a how-to for break-ups is a horrid message. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this book.

Kathryn Lord, Your Romance Coach
www.Find-a-Sweetheart.com

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The dating is in the details, July 22, 2005

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This review is from: Dating After 50: Negotiating the Minefields of Mid-Life Romance (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)

You're a smart, accomplished, mature adult with a lot to offer. You're professionally competent and confident. But does the idea of launching a romantic voyage of discovery just feel too overwhelming, confusing and potentially embarrassing? If so, read this book for an even-handed exploration of the modern possibilities for meeting new partners and friends. It's hard for sophisticated adults to subject themselves to the uncertainties of looking for love and Ms Romm uses matter-of-fact examples and her own experience to lower the anxiety threshold and explore the options, step-by-step. Most current dating books focus on the internet as the most efficient way to connect with appropriate new partners and this one does, too. The author details her own experiences and provides lots of practical advice from how to word your descriptions, to where and how to meet, topics to steer clear of, red flags, guidelines and positive reinforcement. And she even gives you some help with how to kindly phrase and deliver a graceful exit speech too, which let's face it you're going to have to manage at some point unless you marry the first person you meet.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Was She Rollerblading When She WroteThis?, November 25, 2004

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Grace Thompson (Upper Arlington, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dating After 50: Negotiating the Minefields of Mid-Life Romance (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)

Dr. Romm's monograph constitutes nothing more than just a conglomeration of banal rantings that have been, in all probability, dictated while she engaged in some mind-numbing activity. It is highly reiterative of "Guerrilla Dating" published in the early 90's. It is sad that her vulgar self-marketing campaign, e.g. salsa dancing, personal ads, constitutes a list of frenetic activities designed for those who cannot make any meaningful personal connections in their quotidian lives. Instead, it is proposed they go to activities, not for intrinsic interest, but as a means of luring a catch. The most tragic suggestion is Dr. Romm's proposal of a dehumanizing tickler file specifying such parameters as the name of date, general impression, and future contact. Along these lines, she should have incorporated results of relevant blood titers or annual income. It is of question that if she were so successful in her dating strategy, why does she still "appreciate" her intermittently silent Nordic partner. Excuse me, but where is the mention of love and meaningful joining of spirits? Do not waste your money on this silly pap.