In this episode, I discuss why dating feels more challenging for men in their mid-50s and older, and provide actionable insights to make it easier. Discover the subtle patterns that might be holding you back, and learn how to shift your energy to attract meaningful connections.Today I’ll be sharing four key strategies to help you navigate the modern dating world with confidence and ease.
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Kimberly
So if you’re a man in your mid fifties, sixties, or older, and dating for you is feeling complicated or harder than it used to feel, then I want you to know something right away. You’re not imagining this. Dating does feel different at different stages of life. You have lived more, you’ve been through a long term relationship.
You’ve been through. A marriage, you’re navigating a dating culture that did not exist the last time you were single and somewhere in the background, you probably have quiet thoughts in your head that you are not saying out loud thoughts like, am I too old for this right now? Do women still find me attractive?
Am I behind in this area of my life? Do I still have what it takes emotionally? Physically sexually. Now, most of you men are carrying around those questions and thoughts [00:01:00] privately. You’re not talking about them. You’re not going out for a beer with your ex-wife and unpacking these things, but they certainly are gonna be shaping how you are showing up and dating, and this is the important part.
None of these questions mean that anything is wrong with you. What I wanna be very clear about is that it’s not your age. It’s not your wrinkles, it’s not your hairline. It’s not the fact that you have been married before and it didn’t work out. These things alone are not disqualifying you from attraction or connection with vibrant, attractive, or even youthful women.
What actually is gonna be making dating harder for you at this stage of your life is way less about how you look. That’s going to matter to a degree, but it’s gonna have everything to do with how you relate to your [00:02:00] life, your energy, and who you are today. Now, this is what I wanna talk about in this video because there are a few subtle patterns that I see over and over again in very intelligent, successful, good men patterns that are quietly making you feel older to women.
Yeah. Even when you’re fit, right, well put together and you’re emotionally aware. Now, these are not grooming tips. This is not a YouTube video where I’m gonna tell you to, you know, change shampoos or clip your nails if you’re not already looking after yourself. Yeah, go start there and then come back here.
So these aren’t surface level fixes I’m sharing with you here. These are deeper orientations that once you understand the perspective I’m gonna share with you, you’re gonna go, oh yeah. Shit, I know that I’ve been doing this. I need to shift how I’m showing up. And when you do shift, dating will feel a lot lighter.
It’s gonna feel way more natural, and you’re gonna feel way more connected again, which is your goal. Now, welcome to this channel. My name is [00:03:00] Kimberly Hill. I’m a men’s dating and relationship coach. I support good hearted men to attract deeply loving relationships and keep those relationships and go have fun and experience novelty and passion and love and flirting and just a healthy.
Relationship, and I know that that feels out of reach and hard for some men to imagine that they can be there, that they can be in that relationship, and I want you to know that it’s entirely possible. Now, if you want support in that area of your life, you are welcome to book a complimentary call with me to see if we are right to work together.
If not, there could be some other resources I point you towards, or you may determine it’s not the right fit for you, but at least you have learned something in the process. And maybe that’s. Orienting you towards the success that you want to have in your life. But in today’s video, I’m gonna be sharing those four subtle shifts that are gonna help you really experience that kind of ease and playfulness that most of us really want to feel when we’re out there [00:04:00] dating and getting to know new people.
Now, the first thing is, are you living in what’s called a post peak identity now? So what I talk about here, what I mean here is that if you’re aging yourself outta dating by living in what I call a post peak identity, this is what happens when you show up and you subtly, the language that you use in communication is subtly communicating that your best years are behind you, right?
So I hear this from my clients and I get this feedback from dates they go on. That they say things like, I have already traveled, or I already did the career thing, or I’ve had that phase of my life. And on the surface, maybe this sounds a little calm or grounded, but emotionally, what a woman is often feeling is that this guy who’s communicating this way, he’s done [00:05:00] becoming.
Who he is, right? So attraction is not just about youth, it’s about momentum. Now women are drawn to men who are still unfolding, that are still curious, that are still engaged with life. Now, I am not saying you need to completely reinvent yourself, but you do need to. Learn constantly. What matters is that, is there a sense of forward motion in how you live and talk about your life now in particular?
I see this mistake more commonly with widowed men. You had a person in your life taken away from you, and it’s very, very common for me to see and hear men refer to the life they had with their former partner. And it becomes almost a, that is my life. My life is my past, [00:06:00] not who I am and what I’m becoming now.
And that language. Stops many of those men from connecting with women today because women are going like, well, who are you now? I’m not here to learn your life story. I’m here to connect with the man in front of me today. So if you are speaking about what you’re exploring, what you’re learning, what you’re building, um, that’s gonna come across to women as way more alive than a man who frames everything in the past.
Tense. So check yourself on, are you using language that ref references that your life is behind you? If so, you can start to change your language and the choices you’re making day to day. Now, secondly, do you have emotional heaviness that’s actually being disguised as depth? Right there is a difference between emotional maturity and having emotional weight.
And a common pattern that I do see with men, um, is [00:07:00] that they kind of lead with some of their life disappointments early in dating. Um, they will say to women like, I’m just being honest with what I’ve been through. Um, but then they might spend the first couple of dates unpacking their divorce pain or the betrayal that they’ve gone through, or how difficult dating or modern dating has become.
That’s common. You meet somebody in the first kind of conversation you have is like how difficult dating is or how much you hate dating apps. It’s not really the direction you wanna be going because maybe from your perspective you’re thinking, well, I’m being honest. I’m being authentic. But from a woman’s perspective, it often comes across as quite dense or even cynical.
Now, depth is not about how much pain you can carry. It’s about your emotional range. Can you feel sadness and joy? Can you be serious and playful? Can you. Talk about life without making it feel too heavy. And it’s not that women or youthful women aren’t avoiding depth, but they [00:08:00] are gonna avoid men have emotional gravity that is pulling the tone or the energy or the room down.
Right. So being grounded doesn’t mean that you’re burdened. Experience doesn’t need to feel like weight. So watch yourself in terms of what you’re talking about, how you’re talking about it, what kind of tone and energy, um, and emotions you are bringing to your dates. If you are dating very quickly after a divorce or separation, you’re probably gonna be making this mistake now.
Let’s also talk about something that can happen where you have what’s called a lack of forward pull in your life. So this is the, the third, um, pattern that I see attraction guys. It follows movement. So if your life feels like it’s in, you know, maintenance mode rather than creative mode. Then dating will become difficult for you because I’ll often ask, man, what’s [00:09:00] exciting that’s going on in your life right now?
Or, what are you excited about right now? And they’ll go right into kind of routine conversation and they’ll say, well, work is okay right now. Or, Hey, I am, I’m golfing a little more than I used to. Or I’m just keeping things simple. Or, you know, I, I’m just at a point in my life where I’m really just kicking back and relaxing.
Now, there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with any of those things, but they don’t create energy. So women, especially if you wanna date somewhat of a younger woman, they wanna join a life that is going somewhere. They want to feel movement, curiosity, and engagement. So stability without a doubt is attractive, but stagnation is.
Not attractive at all. So having this forward pole, it doesn’t mean you have to live in chaos or have constant change, but it can be as simple as learning something new, um, building something meaningful [00:10:00] or exploring a slightly different way of living, some kind of ambition, some kind of direction. So when a man has this forward pole, uh, women will feel invited into that life.
Um, not. Tasked with animating your life for you. Now, the fourth point here is, um, men can often identify or over identify with logic and control. And if you wanna dive into this more deeply last week’s video, why Smart Men Struggle in Dating talks about this in more detail, but, um, on dates this might show up as you explaining more instead of having the experience of the date.
You might be stuck in kind of analyzing everything that’s going on instead of being there flirting with this woman, and you might be talking about a dating rather than being present on your date. Now, many men can approach dating like it’s a system to solve because you want some clarity, you want some certainty.
You know, you might be used to [00:11:00] having steps and outcomes in your life. But attraction doesn’t live in that control. It lives in, um, the moment being present. The novelty, the fun, the experience, particularly youthful, vibrant women are gonna be drawn, drawn to men who can tolerate a bit of uncertainty or even emotional uncertainty in the moment without trying to manage it all away.
So if you can stay, um, present without needing to dominate the moment, um, like you can just be in the experience with this woman and having fun. Almost like you’re, you get a hall pass to be a kid again with her, right? Um, that, that kind of like novelty of experiencing stuff is very, very attractive to women.
So instead of thinking, you know, where is this going? Where is this date going? Where is this relationship going? And more powerful question is, can I be here and can I enjoy this moment? So what I wanted to talk about today is that none of these patterns have to do with your [00:12:00] age. They are about how you are orienting yourself towards your life.
And men that age well in the dating world are men that stay very curious. They stay emotionally agile. They’re maintaining forward momentum. They’re talking about their lives as if it’s still in front of them, not behind them. Um, they know how to be more in the moment and have fun and let loose than be controlling.
So, if dating for you has been feeling a little flat or discouraging right now, it doesn’t mean that you know everything you’re doing is wrong. It might mean that your energy is communicating completion. Rather than continuation. So you’re not too old, you’re still becoming, and you still have to talk about as if you’re becoming, so I hope this was a helpful perspective for you guys.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, comments, observations below. And for those men that have dated successfully after divorce or a long-term relationship or even, um, after being widowed. I’d love [00:13:00] for you to share what has worked really well for you with other men in the comment section here, and we can learn from this community as well.
So thanks guys for your attention and for tuning in today and look forward to another video next week. Ciao.
