Daring to Date Again

A Memoir

Ann Anderson Evans

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631529108
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Ann has two kids, two careers, two divorces, a pile of friends and sings soprano in the church choir. But after twelve years single, she is sick of celibacy. She’s been through enough to know that marriage is not what she was brought up to expect, and that love can be slippery and uncertain. With a re-awakened libido and a longing for adventure, she steps outside her comfort zone—embarking on a boundary-pushing, soul-searching journey into the world of online dating. Ranging from Montclair, New Jersey to Harare, Zimbabwe, Daring to Date Again: A Memoir is a compelling, often racy memoir of one woman’s late-life adventures with sex and dating in the modern world. As she rollicks (and bawls) her way through dozens of relationships, Evans tackles some touchy topics with humor and insight: the morality of dating married men, whether women over sixty should consider having children, what age difference is too much, and more. Daring, frank, and a little bit nutty, Daring to Date Again is a story about what happens when a lonely, sex-starved sixty-year-old woman decides to put herself on the market again—but on her own terms.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• 1 The Starting Point
• 2 At the Rope’s End
• 3 My First Dance
• 4 Busting Out
• 5 Intro to a New World
• 6 Preparing to Launch
• 7 A Rendezvous with Technology
• 8 My First Date
• 9 My Turn to Do Something
• 10 Finally, a Live One
• 11 Jumping into the Fire
• 12 Bruce the Cat
• 13 Strategy
• 14 Miles Away from Church
• 15 Red Silk
• 16 Being a Cop
• 17 A Nice Jewish Doctor
• 18 Good-Bye
• 19 Don’t Do That ! ! !
• 20 The Grab Bag
• 21 Sometimes It Really Is Dangerous
• 22 Triage
• 23 Married Men
• 24 A Step Backward
• 25 Turning to God
• 26 No Harmony
• 27 And Now, About Me
• 28 Ernest: The Halcyon Days
• 29 Ernest: The River of Bile
• 30 Ernest: Vanquished
• 31 Benjamin
• 32 Benjamin’s Apartment
• 33 A Relationship Begins
• 34 A New York Girl
• 35 Greta Speaks
• 36 ! ! ? ? @ # ? $ # ! ! ?
• 37 And Then …
• 38 Snap! It’s Serious
• 39 The Safety Valves
• 40 Risking Everything
• 41 More Than I Ever Expected
• 42 Settling In
• 43 Meatballs and Pie
• 44 911
• 45 Out and About in Harare
• 46 The Sweep of Zimbabwe
• 47 Nyanga
• 48 Vastly Pampered
• 49 Going Deeper
• 50 Caring for Guy
• 51 The Market
• 52 The Dreaded Good-Bye
• 53 Becoming Stone. Good Stone.
• 54 The Wheels Come Off
• 55 The Same Old Grind, Only Better
• 56 And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen!
• 57 How to Get Your Wife Back
• 58 A Last Good-Bye
• 59 Keeping the Good Stuff
• 60 The Unicorn
• 61 Enter the Deal-Breaker
• 62 The Proposal
• 63 True Love
• Acknowledgments
• Your Dating Workbook
• About the Author