Throughout their adult life, their generation has had higher rates of separation and divorce, and lower rates of marriage in the first place, than the generations that preceded them. She’s in good company: More than one-third of Baby Boomers aren’t currently married. “You’re thrust out into this cyberworld after the refuge of being in a marriage that-even if it wasn’t wonderful-was the norm. She tried to use dating apps, but the experience felt bizarre and daunting. Her marriage of 33 years had recently ended, and she didn’t know any single men her age in Longview, Texas, where she lives.
When Rhonda Lynn Way was in her 50s and on the dating scene for the first time since she was 21, she had no idea where to start.