Jonathan Fields

So you've worked with literally thousands of people navigating dating at all ages and also through the 40s, 50s, through the season of midlife.

And I would imagine that many of them come to you having tried so many different times, so many different ways and failed or not even knowing where to begin.

In this season in particular, what's the biggest challenge or complaint that you often have brought to you from people who are earnestly out there trying to find love in midlife?

Yeah.

What are the fears that you see that are unique to the middle season of life when you step into dating, regardless of how you're ending, you've ended up?

Do you see sort of like common patterns where they're, they're just these deep seated gremlins that keep coming up repeatedly when people are trying to step into the space of finding somebody?

I want to dive into those three a little bit more.

But you started out talking about time.

And I want to dig into that a little bit more because underneath that, I'm going to make the assumption that people feel like to actually do this takes a very substantial amount of time.

True or not?

Yeah.

So it's an urgency type of thing where you're sort of saying, I don't know how much runway is ahead of me.

Yeah.

I mean, that makes a lot of sense.

When you think about that also, I would imagine folks who are especially coming back into the world of dating or whatever is the mechanism that they say yes to as a way to try and find love later in life, that the

The technologies have changed profoundly.

I'm with my wife 34 years now.

We're married 29 years.

And so we went on a blind date, introduced by one of her childhood friends.

It was a radically different world when we first met.