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Should Over- 50s Avoid Dating Apps?
WOMAN'S OWN
|April 27, 2021
After Ulrika Jonsson revealed that she’s joined Tinder at the age of 53, in the hope of finding a new partner, we ask…
NO
‘There was yet another topless man!’
Carolyn Pearson, 56, lives in Leeds with her partner, Sandy, 46.
Staring down at my phone, I chuckled to myself and swiped left to get rid of yet another profile with a photo of a topless man, proudly carrying a fish he’d just caught. It was April 2018 and I’d been using the dating app, Tinder, for the past seven months. After coming out of a 20-year marriage a year earlier and now in my 50s, I just wanted to have a bit of fun and meet new, interesting people.
This story is from the April 27, 2021 edition of WOMAN'S OWN.
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