Colene Sawyer was a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for 40 years, the last 20 specializing in couples, with her husband, also a therapist. Widowed at 91, she later fell in love with a former lawyer at the senior residence where she lives. Her book, Romance In Your Golden Years, is based on her interviews with couples who fell in love as elders.
Late life love, seniors who fall in love, experience the same passion and fascination as younger people who are in love. Seniors don’t always marry; they don’t always have sex; but they find themselves more intimately connected than ever before. What do we have to learn from people who’ve learned what really matters?
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