Romance Redux: Finding Love in Your Later Years explores how older people are seeking, finding, and keeping intimate relationships. Author Laura Stassi, host of the popular public radio podcast Dating While Gray, includes her own experiences as well as those of other gray love seekers and finders. Laura also talks with dating and relationship experts and researchers to explore the obstacles and rewards of re-partnering at this stage of life. Whether it’s through “gray divorce,” which remains high, or the untimely death of a partner, more and more older people are facing vibrant years ahead of them, alone. They’re interested in finding love for the later years of life but after decades off the market, dating again can feel daunting. Using personal stories and expert research, Laura takes readers on a tour through the many ways older adults are finding companionship, romance, and a fulfilling sex life. Learning how to establish and deepen a relationship with a new partner can be challenging. But it also can be rewarding, exciting, and successful, if you just know how to do it. Romance Redux offers hope for how!
Laura Stassi is creator and host of the public radio podcast Dating While Gray: The Grown-Up’s Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships. She explores issues and relays true stories about seeking, finding, and keeping love after age 50. Online dating, sexual intimacy, deal breakers – everything’s on the table. Laura was married for almost 30 years before getting divorced. Newly single, she turned to friends and relationship experts for advice. On Dating While Gray and in Romance Redux, Laura shares the lessons she’s learned and introduces other gray daters as they all weather the wild world of love, with advice from experts.
Laura is also an award-winning writer of health, wellness and medical features for military families, and she’s the author of several nonfiction books for young readers. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Virginia Tech. She has two grown children and enjoys jogging along the wooded paths of Reston, Virginia, and the sandy shores of Emerald Isle, North Carolina.