Gray Love

By: Sarah Dunn • Natasha Josefowitz • Erica Manfred • Jonathan Ned Katz • David Levy • Dustin Beall Smith • Paul Lauter • Barbara Abercrombie • Irvin Peckham • Susan Ostrov Weisser • Amy Rogers • Phyllis Carito • Mimi Schwartz • Doris Friedensohn • Nan Bauer-Maglin • Daniel E. Hood • Alice F. Freed • Cynthia McVay • Neil Stein • Laura Broadwell • Stephanie M. Brown • Elizabeth Locke • Candida B. Korman • Margie Kaplan • Hedva Lewittes • Rett Zabriskie • William Wiesner • Phyllis Bogen • Judith Ugelow Blak • Linda Wright Moore • Jean Y. Leung • Jan Jacobson • Stephanie Speer • Sandi Goldie • Jim Bronson • Vincent Valenti • Stacey Parkins Millett • Eugene Roth • Isabel Hill • Susan O’Malley • Susan Bickley • Bonnie Fails • Angela Page • Tierl Thompson • Idris Walters

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Synopsis

Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, as well as some that are unique to elder relationships. These include having had previous partners and a complicated and deep personal history; family and friends’ reactions to an older person’s dating; alternative models to marriage (such as sharing space or living apart); having more than one partner at the same time; one’s aging body, appearance, and sexuality; and the pressure of time and the specter of illness and death.

Book Details

Book Quality:
ISBN-13:: 9781978827288
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 2023-01-13T08:19:42Z
Language:: English
Categories:: Nonfiction, Self-Help, Social Studies,
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.