Anyone successfully met someone on a dating app in their 60s?

[Suburbanqueen]

I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have joined an agency suitable dating site for 2nd time. Thought I may have been too hasty last time but honest to God! What a load of sad old men. Most are plain ugly, overweight, heavy drinkers, fantasists, boastful, insolvent......need I go on. Makes my ex husband look like an agonis in comparison and he wasn't all that.

**Age suitable, not agency

Well, looks as if you've sampled a cross-section of losers on you dating site adventures. I wouldn't give them your time.

Best thing to do is go out and socialise. Enjoy your friends network and if you meet a nice man along the way, brilliant!

My advice to all women over 40, get yourself on Burned Haystacks Dating Method on Facebook, they teach you how to get rid of the 99% hay (rubbish) and find your needle (shiny nice man, although probably not an Adonis at this age of life).

You can't just pop on Hinge or Bumble, sort through a few profiles and find lots of nice men, it doesn't work like that. In between the eye-poppingly awful ones, there are some nice men on there. My very good friend was on there about a month before he was snapped up. I met my partner on the apps and I'm in my fifties. Great men do not sit around on those apps for years, so get strategic and join BHDM (it's free).

Go dancing - salsa, lindy hop, west coast swing, tango.. Loads of single men in that age bracket there and you get to have some fun too.

@Lillibridge I kind of agree if you can find circles where there are single men hanging around, but I didn't seem to move in those, and when I joined groups I tended to attract all kinds of men who were either partnered up and wanting a flirt or much older men who were just so out of date in their attitudes to women. I do think going on apps is still viable, because at least you know some of the people on there are single, whereas in real-life the vast majority of men age 60 odd will be married or in a partnership. I know someone who met their partner in a singles walking group for over 50's but just hanging around looking for great single men in your friend groups- I wouldn't have found anyone this way.

Nah.. I've given up.. and l thank MN for it.. after reading so many posts about " bad" relationships... just too stressful these days..
I did date from OLD in my 50s..and found the same as you are finding now.. remember scientifically males aren't as " fussy " as females and most are delusional thinking they are better looking/ more intelligent/ more interesting / more of a catch than they really are..
Some examples when l dated..
Number 1 man.. says he's 5ft 10.. turns up he's shorter than me ( 5ft 7).
Number 2 man.. Says he's well travelled... turns out he goes to Benidorm three times a year.
Number 3 man... Says he's well read... he loves reading The sun news paper and sports magazines.
Number 4 man ... Says he's into cooking.. cooks me a meal.. spaghetti bolignase... uses a jar.. then scrapes mould off a block of cheddar and grates it up.
Get my drift? I could go on and on.
I'm happy with my close loving family and friends..see them every week..enjoy my own company .. l holiday 6 times a year with my family...
Im content...without having someone else to think about and consider.

My mum did. She was 60, widowed, and met her husband on Match.com - I don’t know if that’s still a thing, this was 18 years ago. She met a few different guys (for lunch/coffee) and I think her now husband was the fifth date she had.

I am on the BHDM group and it's interesting. I agree about joining groups and things.....90% are nice women but rarely any nice men. I still work and also volunteer in a charity shop so I don't sit at home swiping right or left on apps all day. Yes, most men my age are hopelessly out of touch with society. They're happy to sit and watch GB News and moan about migrants most of the time.
I think I've had enough of the apps for now. Never say never but chances of meeting anyone even reasonable are slim and I much prefer women's company.

It is difficult. I found that over 60 a lot of men seem to have a very old-fashioned attitude, whereas from 50-55 or so, they seem to be more egalitarian. I don't want to start looking after some older man as his wife's died and he hates cooking! There are lots of great group activities with mostly women in like choirs, it's quite hard to find somewhere with lots of men. I did find a few groups with mostly men but the men there were mostly attached but as I say, weren't above a flirt, which is exactly what I wasn't looking for- I wanted to find a single man not an attached touchy-feely one!

Yep....fully agree. I am not going to be bank rolling, propping up egos or nursing anyone and so time to hang up the fluffy pink handcuffs methinks.