Waiting Dating and Mating: A Guide to Woman-Man Relationships in the Middle Years - Softcover

Jeff Selth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962443107 ISBN 13: 9780962443107

Publisher: Dumont Press, 1990

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Review:

A unique, comprehensive guide to relationships for adult singles (divorced, widowed, never-married). Detailed suggestions help the reader deal with, among other things, the shock of sudden singlehood, the impact of the women's movement, finding date partners, the first date, sexual expectations, living together, and creative wedding services. The illustrations by Jim Clark are wrily humorous, and sometimes hit hard.

From the Author:

The Real Singledom

As someone wrote on an Egyptian tablet about 2,000 B.C., things are not what they used to be. I've written this book as a guide to those numberless people, women and men, who have embarked on this difficult, puzzling, sometimes unnatural, usually surprising, and often almost overwhelming lifestyle called man-woman middle-aged dating, a very different phenomenon from anything you knew in your youth. From my own experiences -- too many, as I'd never dreamed it would be this hard to find a compatible other -- and from my conversations and observations, I've made some discoveries and drawn some conclusions that might be helpful to you.

Unless you're absolutely new to the club, you must have found out it's not the paradise that some marrieds still tell you they think it is. I truly believe some of them really do think so. (Often with envy.) "How come you're having such a hard time finding a mate?" Often enough, thinking themselves pretty sharp in the psychology department, they even question my honesty: I really don't want to be married; I like my freedom, and the excitement of the hunt. (For my response, see the next chapter.) We who're in it know better.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dumont Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0962443107
• ISBN 13: 9780962443107
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263
• Illustrator: Jim Clark