Pity the poor older women of England who are longing for love (How we met after 60, 28 December). I read of happy, heterosexual older couples who had found romance in Canada, the US, France and Scotland ... then Manchester, but they were two lucky men.
Obviously we lonely older women in England not only have to put up with our terrible government, but we have a dim chance of romance to cheer us. Still, I’m happy for those who were lucky, and to be honest I am content with my widowed status, so the men I know don’t need to run a mile, fearing I am after them. Though clearly something is missing in my life, as I keep finding time to write to the Guardian.
Barbara Foster (81)
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
• One suggestion missing from your article (How to find the love of your life after 60: ‘Ask a friend to write your dating profile’, 1 January) is to move to north America: six of your nine featured success stories began there.
Patrick Sheehy
London
• My friend and I met via Guardian Soulmates four years ago, just before it closed. He is 80 and I am 83, and it was love at first sight. We discovered that we had the same political and religious beliefs, went to the same university, and I had even taught with his ex-wife. It was an extraordinary meeting of minds. We felt that we had been hovering around each other for the past 20 years. We are still together – though he lives in his house and I in mine, and we see each other when we can. Friends and family think it is an ideal arrangement. Thank you, Guardian.
Diana Naylor
Wivenhoe, Essex
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