It’s true when people say you never know what it’s like to stand in someone else’s shoes. This disconnect is happening every day in relationships between married and single friends in their 50s, 60s, and 70s as both men and women lose long-time spouses.
As a dating coach for women over fifty, I hear the pain in women’s voices when they talk about their married friends and the social lives they miss being part of.
They longingly wish they could share what it’s like to be single and alone at this time in their life without coming across as needy or unhappy.
