3 Stoic Lessons To Improve Your Over-40 Dating Life (And Find True Love)
Stoic philosopher Epictetus says life comes down to persisting and resisting. You want to persist towards meaningful and beneficial things and resist those that get you nowhere.
Often in the over-40 world of dating, we tend to persist but not resist, or vice-versa. It’s rarely a healthy mixture of the two, and we end up frustrated and alone in ignoring the balance between these concepts.
While the Stoics didn’t specifically tailor their teachings to people trying to date in their forties, many of their principles apply perfectly to the situation in which we find ourselves.
Here are three stoic lessons to improve your romantic life if you’re over 40 and currently in the dating scene.
Don’t Fear Change
For many of us, dating in our forties implies a severe life change. Many were married and going through a divorce or had lost a partner. If you’re in the dating pool at this age, I’d imagine the majority of you aren’t like me and have been dating around for twenty years with no romantic direction.
The fear of change can be crippling, but more importantly, it keeps you from evolving and facing…