Suddenly Single At Sixty

Patricia J. Koprucki’s life changed drastically when she lost her soul mate and husband of more than twenty-nine years. In addition to encouraging her on every personal level—exercise, appearance, health—he also mentored her business until the day before he went on life support. In SUDDENLY SINGLE at SIXTY she offers practical tips to women experiencing grief and to those ready and almost ready to re-enter Now. Written from a place of experience, this self-help book for female baby boomers empowers survivors with the encouragement and advice they’ll need to get back out there with self-confidence and savvy. With affection and humor, Koprucki tells what to expect and how to survive those first holidays, birthdays and anniversaries after loss of a soul mate. SUDDENLY SINGLE at SIXTY contains techniques to help women survivors replenish physical and spiritual strength; relearn how to live in the moment; negotiate with technology, doctors, and well-meaning friends; and navigate the tricky world of online dating all while honoring (without being tyrannized by) a soul mate’s memory.

An uplifting, witty and hilarious memoir about the road from the shock and despair of a sudden marriage break-up to a fabulous new life

A stressful, protracted divorce. A difficult, painful death of a beloved husband. And suddenly, after age 50, you’re on your own again. Your children have moved out, your parents are aging fast or deceased, your friends’ lives continue onward, seemingly unchanged. Being suddenly single after age 50 can be terrifying, but eventually it can also be liberating. It can be fraught with worry and decisions you’re unprepared initially to make, but it can also be a time to reevaluate, reestablish, and reinvent. It can be financially and emotionally unstable at times, but it can be the start of a new chapter, or the discovery of someone you didn’t know you were, or could become, after the grief of a loss so difficult. Long-time friends and authors Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane have a lot in common. Both lived in the same city for years. Both are writers. Both married their husbands right out of college. Both are mothers of grown children who have left home. And both had aging parents when these difficult journeys began. Both found themselves alone, husbands lost to divorce and death, two separate situations that were equally traumatic— for Barbara, a divorce that took four years to end, and for Margaret, a five-year, gut-wrenching siege of myriad cancers that ended in death. Barbara and Margaret struggled but discovered not only that their new lives were, indeed, worth living, but that the insight gleaned from their experiences could help other people in similar straits. The result is Suddenly Single After 50, an honest and riveting, yet funny and poignant guide that provides advice for those who find themselves divorced, widowed, or otherwise suddenly single just about the time they start getting those AARP cards in the mail and while many of their friends are gleefully discussing retirement plans and toasting milestone wedding anniversaries. Suddenly Single After 50 is told with authenticity, wit, and compassion. They discuss living alone, attending social events alone, eating by themselves, sleeping alone, walking and traveling alone, then how they also came to feel they were not alone, not really, with loyal friends and family. They share how their once right-sized houses suddenly felt empty, too big, and too full of stuff that no longer made sense. They write about all the legal and accounting woes that befell them. And they tell readers what it’s like to be over 50 and dating again—after decades out of that scene, which had changed in unfathomable yet often hilarious ways. Suddenly Single After 50 addresses what life is really like when it’s suddenly shaped as single. It helps readers understand the grief, frustration, and sadness alongside reawakening into the world. Anyone who finds themselves suddenly single in middle age and beyond--or knows someone who is--will find in these pages both advice and reflection, support, and a way forward.

After 35 years of marriage, Janie J suddenly found herself single and sixty.Would she be able to start over?Would she be able to handle everything on her own?Would she need a chiropractor after using the riding lawn mower?Would her new business be enough to survive on?Would she be able to find new friends?Would she get into shape without plastic surgery?Would she ever be happy again?Would she find a new love?This is a true and honest and often funny biographical account of Janie J's adventures, misadventures, and discoveries.Her life seemed to be falling apart but in the middle of rebuilding her finances, doubling down on her business, finding new friends, getting fit and yes, looking for love, Janie J kept her wit about her and more importantly, her sense of humor. Single and Sixty is a poignant, honest and funny look at one woman's quest to survive and then thrive after divorce later in life. Janie J writes like a friend who is willing to give you self-help advice in the form of sharing her own foibles and failings. This isn't a self-improvement book. It simply shows you how one woman applied herself toward motivating herself, building relationships, building back her self-esteem and even finding a bit of spiritual awakening.But this partial biography (it covers about four years of Janie's life) could also be the memoir and story of any woman who has found herself suddenly single through divorce, breakups or worse and is feeling lost. It's relatable and encouraging to know that someone else has had a similar experience and come through it to the other side.For a simple guide showing you EXACTLY how Janie J pulled herself together and began creating her best life, get your copy of "Live the Life You Have Imagined" and the "Live the Life You Have Imagined" companion journal.Visit her website at www.JanieJ.net for ongoing encouragement, stories about Janie's continuing journey and for her original, inspirational poetry.

'Strikingly beautiful' Guardian 'Tough and tender' Joanne Harris After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones Monster means to teach . . .

Sometimes your wildest dreams really do come true... Laura Michaels sat up in her dark, lonely bedroom, heart slamming in her heated chest, the dream so real she could still taste his mouth against hers, feel hands pressed into her soft curves, sense fingers exploring where she wanted them most in the lush territory of her abandoned body. Yet her bed was empty, as always. Except for the three cats who thought they owned it. And the empty ice cream pint, spoon jutting out like it was identifying her in a line-up. Heart racing, she tried. She really did. She should have calmed down. She should have been able to shake the reverie. She should have let it all fade. What kept her heart beating so fast, though, was one undeniable fact. There had been four hands on her in that dream... This prequel takes Laura, Mike and Dylan from the New York Times bestselling series Her Billionaires and offers a glimpse into their yearning for what was meant to be... The book you are about to read, In Your Dreams, is a newly-revised and expanded prequel to the New York Times bestselling series, Her Billionaires. It was originally published under the title Before Her Billionaires, but now has more than double the words, is fully re-edited, and has more of the men ;) .

Single women 60+ have different fears than single men of the same age, when it comes to finding themselves now dating and experiencing new relationships. Single men at this age seem more fragile and sensitive. When starting to date at 60+, there are moments of fear that a woman will laugh at their clumsiness, awkwardness or make them feel small, inferior or insecure. Single women dating at this age have more basic concerns. We're more afraid a man will pass gas on us during lovemaking and totally ruin the course of the evening. A gentle reminder. This is my sole opinion based on personal experience. (smile)Dating after 60. After 60 what? 60 years of children, husbands, careers? 60 years of joy, sorrow, loneliness? A random, happenstance meeting in November 2017, while interviewing French language instructors abroad who could commit to assisting me with online conversational French lessons, prompted me to write this book. I was seeking a virtual pen pal and French tutor. He, apparently, was seeking a life mate, under the guise of offering French lessons. And he's not even French! He's an ex-pat Netherlander who is fluent in French! To make a short story, shorter, I fell in love with this aforementioned Dutchman a.k.a. French tutor who lives in France. We have a cross-Atlantic relationship. I live in the U.S. He lives in the E.U. It's been interesting. And precisely what I need for this time in my life. Women Dating After 60+. I am in the throws of precisely this moment of life...in real-time. And there are lots of us. Some of us have eased into the dating and relationship game and are thriving. Others of us have not been as successful, and have either given up on trying or opted to no longer remain open to the possibilities. When you suddenly (or not so suddenly) find yourself single and alone in your 60+ years time of life, whether it be by death of a spouse/significant other, or divorce of a spouse/significant other, or perhaps never married/selectively single; it can be unnerving or empowering depending on how you're wired. It's not an easy time. Just the thought of now dating at this juncture of our lives, is enough to make our stomachs churn. At 60+ the frustrations of loving, dating and learning a new human being...a grown, been there before human being, is a monumental challenge. By this age, everyone's locked into his or her own world. The patterns are not easily disrupted or merged. By the time you reach our age, 60+, we have decided how far to the left or to the right we are willing to lean. A small decision now requires a formal tribunal. At this point in our lives most of us just want to be fluid with our emotions, intuitive, sincere, creative, and passionate. We want to live a life that is beautiful in its simplicity, with marginal uncertainty and absolutely, no drama. Striving daily, for mostly sunshine and blue skies. Dating when you're 60+ is no walk in the park. In our upper ages (I love this term), our lovely minds can occasionally get the best of us. Surrounding ourselves with family, friends and partners with good intentions will yield our highest survival rate. And when we choose to put ourselves out there and embrace the idea of romance again, our watermark should be a high one. Not an impossible one. Simply a high one with a little extra nurturing and attention focused on our heart. I wrote this tiny book of warm encouragement for all of my single, 60+, female friends, family and readers who may have accidently or intentionally, put the brakes on romance. Divorced. Widowed. Selectively Single. We are in this exquisitely amazing time of our life together. Embrace it! Young love and life expectations can be blind and impulsive. Seasoned love and life expectations is realistic and wears bifocals. Our life belongs to us...we get to do it the way we want to do it. #HappyDating60+