{"id":12808,"date":"2024-09-12T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:23:29","slug":"golden-bachelorette-is-far-from-reality-say-older-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12808","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Golden Bachelorette\u2019 Is Far From Reality, Say Older Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The series is selling a fantasy. But straight women in their 60s and 70s say the dating scene is anything but rosy.<\/p>\n

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When \u201cThe Golden Bachelorette\u201d premieres next week, the latest reality TV spinoff in the long-running \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise will once again be selling a fantasy.<\/p>\n

Joan Vassos, a charming 61-year-old school administrator and grandmother, will spend weeks in exotic locales sifting through two dozen eager suitors \u2014 each vying for her affection.<\/p>\n

In the real world, however, many women say dating in their golden years is reminiscent of another Hollywood franchise altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would describe it as the romantic, geriatric \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 from hell,\u201d said Anne Vitiello, a 60-year-old single woman from New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Vitiello\u2019s recent dating history has certainly been full of challenges. Would-be scammers targeting older women<\/a> are simply a fact of life on the dating apps, she said, as are the men who\u2019ve made her feel like dating a woman in her 60s is an act of generosity.<\/p>\n

There was the somewhat cranky boyfriend who tried to push her buttons by asking when Ms. Vitiello thought Drew, her beloved Maine coon cat, was likely to die. And the longtime friend who hoped to become her lover \u2014 but neglected to mention he was still seeing his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

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The series is selling a fantasy. But straight women in their 60s and 70s say the dating scene is anything but rosy.When \u201cThe Golden Bachelorette\u201d premieres next week, the latest reality TV spinoff in the long-running \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise will once again be selling a fantasy.Joan Vassos, a charming 61-year-old school administrator and grandmother, will spend weeks in exotic locales sifting through two dozen eager suitors \u2014 each vying for her affection.In the real world, however, many women say dating in their golden years is reminiscent of another Hollywood franchise altogether.\u201cI would describe it as the romantic, geriatric \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 from hell,\u201d said Anne Vitiello, a 60-year-old single woman from New York.Ms. Vitiello\u2019s recent dating history has certainly been full of challenges. Would-be scammers targeting older women are simply a fact of life on the dating apps, she said, as are the men who\u2019ve made her feel like dating a woman in her 60s is an act of generosity.There was the somewhat cranky boyfriend who tried to push her buttons by asking when Ms. Vitiello thought Drew, her beloved Maine coon cat, was likely to die. And the longtime friend who hoped to become her lover \u2014 but neglected to mention he was still seeing his girlfriend.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12810,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12811,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions\/12811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}