Perhaps it’s time to stop focusing solely on erections — From high-profile midlife and older women like Paulina Porizkova and Madonna to those of us who don’t quite have that kind of platform, women — especially post-menopausal women — have been vocal and visual about their sexuality as they experience midlife. Invisible? Irrelevant? Undesirable? Asexual? Actually, no. Men like CNN…

All too often, fathers aren’t in as much contact with their kids — Even though divorce rates in the United States have been decreasing, there’s one age group that has been seeing an uptick — among those aged 50 and older, the so-called “gray divorce.” Many newly single people are interested in re-partnering, some are interested in marrying again, and some are even…

Yes, it actually is about fertility, but that can change — Perhaps you heard it. CNN morning show anchor Don Lemon’s comment Thursday about 51-year-old GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley: “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s.” A visibly upset co-anchor Poppy Harlow, who’s…

Sexual scripts can prevent them from getting the pleasure and intimacy they want in their long-term relationship — I am not a poster child for long-term romantic relationships. My longest romantic relationship lasted about 17 years, 15 of which were in a marriage. Hardly “until death,” the current model of marital success. So I can’t speak to what it’s like to be sexual with one partner for decades…

They love women to be caregivers, just not later in life — Two of my 60-something friends became grandmothers for the first time last year. They’re both smart, accomplished, beautiful, vivacious, active, funny, kind, financially independent single women, but only one is datable, or so a new study says. One works full time but lives on the opposite coast from her granddaughter…

A new anthology, ‘Gray Love,’ highlights how people aged 60 and older are disrupting what love looks like — Recently there’s been a spate of books on people finding love in their later years, from Eve Pell’s Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, which was spurred by a Modern Love column she wrote in 2013, one of the most-read columns ever; to Dating While Gray podcaster Laura Stassi’s…

As a middle-aged divorcee with young kids, it’s a good time to ask herself what she really wants: it may not be another husband — The ink on Kim Kardashian’s divorce papers is barely dry but she hasn’t ruled out a fourth marriage. In a chat with Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, Kardashian says that of her three marriages, the last one was the only one that mattered. “I have this, like, fantasy in my head…

Studies indicate single living can be more wasteful than multiple people sharing one household, but not necessarily — I was on a local radio station last week talking about living apart together relationships — the topic of my next book — when someone called in and asked if it was wasteful for a couple to have two separate households when they could live in one. On Twitter, people…

It may not include adventures, and that’s OK — Monique Andre, who is 54 and retired from teaching, is hoping she can inspire middle-aged women as an “influencer” on Instagram and TikTok. “I want to show that the world is safe for a solo woman traveling and that we can live vibrant full lives after the age of 50…