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"This whole dating thing has been on my mind a lot lately. Not that I&amp;#039;m chomping at the bit or anything, but instead of being hidden on the other side of the horizon as &amp;quot;someday&amp;quot; it&amp;#039;s like I can see it in the distance now. And of course, dating in my forties is a world of difference from dating in my twenties. Which would be daunting, but do-able except for one thing: I never dated in my twenties. I met Peter when I was nineteen, and we got together right after a previous relationship of mine ended, a year later. His roommate broke my heart and Peter picked up the pieces. I was barely out of my teens when I settled, and consequently, I never did the bar scene, never hung out with my friends after work at a happy hour and met anyone, and of course, it was before the internet so I never did internet dating, either.  Yeah, I&amp;#039;m a bit....rusty. Antiquated, even. So I was kind of relieved to see Woman&amp;#039;s Day did a survey on dating after fifty, with OurTime.com, and while I&amp;#039;m not in my fifties yet, I&amp;#039;m not that far away, either. It turns out my feelings are right in line with a majority of my almost-peers. I want what most of them want: someone who&amp;#039;s divorced, not separated, someone with a steady job, and we want to take our time figuring out the rest. What were the most important factors to you when you started dating again? And did you end up compromising on some of that? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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