While most couples are exchanging romantic gifts and enjoying a dinner for two, I’m wondering if today is the perfect day to call it quits. When the tall, model-level handsome young man asked me for my number in the local supermarket one misty morning, I dismissed him as too young. He assured me, he was […]
I’d like nothing more than to hit a pause button and insert an extra five years just like this one into my life. Dating a younger man could be a perfect way to do that. On my fourth day in Buenos Aires I decide to go on a guided tour of the city center. When I […]
There’s a fine line between “childlike” and “childish,” and it can get lonely being the only adult in a relationship. As with many best-laid plans, things didn’t quite turn out the way I had thought they would. I had always dated older men, thinking they were more mature than men my age. But the one […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: I’m a 45-year-old woman, never married, and happily child-free. I live in Los Angeles, where I work […]
