‘Dating While Gray’ podcaster Laura Stassi explores what love and relationships are like for those 50 and older in her new book — Laura Stassi was married for 30 years to the man she wed just out of college, barely 23 years old, when she found herself part of a growing trend she never imagined herself being part of — gray divorce. She’d spent most of her adult life living with him, raising…

Some people prefer short-term love over the ‘until death’ kind — Leornardo DiCaprio recently dumped his latest girlfriend, model Camila Morrone, after a four-year relationship, and social media went a bit crazy. Morrone turned 25 years old this year, and as some have observed, the 47-year-old actor has never dated any woman past age 25. …

The Joanne Woodward-Paul Newman documentary proves that lust can turn to love, which matters more than commitment — I have long believed that if you don’t feel lust at the beginning of a romantic relationship, it does not bode well for it to last. …

What’s wrong with simpler, fulfilling pursuits later in life? — It was a simple request. “Instead of 30 Under 30 or NextGen lists, please profile middle-aged people who just got their big breaks. …

Women and children will be hurt by conservatives’ desire to make divorce harder — If it were up to Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance, parents should suck it up and stay in unhappy marriages — maybe “even violent” marriages — for the sake of their kids, all because he had an unhappy experience as the child of divorce. My kids did not —…

The way we talk about older mothers is ageist, sexist and ableist — I was still changing diapers when I hit my 40th birthday. That’s what you get when you give birth at 37, my age when I had to my second child. I remember thinking, “This is not what I had in mind,” at the time. That was a long time ago…

Maybe we should finally stop treating it like it is — So I’ve been seeing someone. I’m not saying this to boast, although women around my age — a newly minted 66 year old — are often told that we can’t find love, even though it’s a lot of B.S. It’s not a boyfriend-girlfriend thing and who knows if we’ll even…

It’s time to stop privileging people simply because they have a romantic and sexual partner — In the aftermath of the horrific decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion in which he wants to reexamine other rights based on the substantive due process — the right to contraception, and sexual relationships and marriage for LGBTQ+ people —…

The foremost expert on romantic love lives apart from her husband — should you? — Even if the name Helen Fisher doesn’t sound familiar to you, you most likely know of her work, especially if you like reading about the science of love, romance, dating and attraction. …