Dating, Matchmaking, and Partner Search from Age 80 at Consonance (Gleichklang)
At Consonance (Gleichklang), we have also made partner search for elderly singles a matter close to our hearts. In a comprehensive evaluation of our activity as matchmakers, we have found encouraging chances of success for partner search from age 80:
Chances of success for partner search from age 80:
- Age group older than 80: 28% found a relationship if they had not given up for at least one year. 62% found a relationship if they had not given up for at least two years.
These success rates essentially correspond to the average success rates across all members. Partner search from age 80 is therefore not associated with lower chances, and new love relationships can become a reality even at an advanced and very advanced age through online matchmaking.
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Fundamental Similarities with Other Age Groups
In principle, most aspects of partner search from age 80 are comparable to partner search in other age groups. Decisive for a sustainable new love happiness is compatibility of values as well as ideas about how a partnership can be designed. This applies to elderly seniors just as much as to younger people.
Physicality, Eroticism, and Sexuality at an Advanced Age
Contrary to popular belief, the majority of singles from age 80 continue to seek love relationships that are also physically and erotically oriented. Although sexual dysfunctions increase with age, there are modern and effective medical treatment options that work even at an advanced age. Moreover, eroticism is not limited to intercourse and does not depend on parameters of functionality in its most important aspects.
Health, Mobility, and Shared Living
A central topic for partner search and relationship quality is dealing with health, the body, and the finiteness of life. Many people seeking a partner from age 80 are still mobile, and traveling together is often seen as a desired aspect of a new relationship. Nevertheless, illnesses and mobility restrictions increase with age, but these can mostly be managed well together.
Relationship Models at an Advanced Age
Men and women from age 80 can choose different relationship models for themselves. This includes a monogamous two-person relationship, living together, remarriage, but also Living-Apart-Together relationships or long-distance relationships. Polyamorous or open relationships also occur at an advanced age, but less frequently than with younger people.
Online Partner Search from Age 80: Fewer Suggestions, Higher Commitment
A decisive difference in partner search from age 80 is that in online partner search, there will actually be a far smaller number of suggestions. Longer waiting periods often occur. However, the positive message is that people searching for a partner at an advanced age from 80 particularly often succeed in moving from a small number of suggestions to a relationship.
Elderly people searching for a partner take every single suggestion especially seriously and are more willing to explore relationship possibilities even on the basis of a very small and rare number of suggestions. In this way, they more often recognize the moment when the right person comes into their field of vision, and at the same time, they are more often able to give that moment a chance, to use that moment and build a relationship.
Loneliness, Internet Use, and Renewed Desires for Love
Qualitative studies with elderly singles, who have often lost their partners, also show that many desire a new love relationship. Moreover, studies show that elderly people who use internet opportunities experience a lower degree of loneliness and more social connectedness.
Many Years of Experience at Consonance (Gleichklang)
According to our own observations over a period of now 20 years, it is our experience at Consonance that partner search for men and women from age 80 is promising. There is no reason to refrain from partner search because of advanced age.
Gender Ratios and Time Perspectives
Especially from age 80 – but also before that – there are gender-related shifts, which are also linked to the higher life expectancy of women. In each case, several single women from age 80 face only one single man from age 80. This is due to factors resulting from demographic factors that cannot be changed. However, this does not mean that women from age 80 have no chances in partner search and dating. It merely means that their partner search takes a little longer on average.
Summary: Partner Search from Age 80
A new love at an advanced age is possible with a willingness for closeness and also change, which is always associated with relationships. Partner search for the elderly can be positively influenced by life experience and the growing clarity about what really sustains a relationship. Especially in partner search at a very advanced age, the focus shifts even more strongly towards a compatibility of values, life attitudes, and ideas about how relationships and also aging should be shaped.
In partner search for seniors over 80, it becomes particularly clear how important it is to include questions of health, life planning, family networking, right up to the finiteness of life, in the shared considerations. What we see at Consonance with our elderly members aged 80 or beyond 80 in their partner search is that they are often characterized by a particularly high degree of seriousness and willingness to commit.
At a very advanced age, profound love relationships can develop that lead to previously unimagined happiness in life. Partner search at a very advanced age particularly benefits from the fact that many elderly people know exactly which values they want to share and which relationship ideas are out of the question or no longer possible for them.
At the same time, due to their life experience, elderly people more often succeed in classifying differences more calmly and appreciating commonalities more consciously. Thus, the partner search of the elderly often leads to relationships that, precisely because of age, are characterized by a special maturity and depth.
Social Networking Beyond Partner Search
Ultimately, new men and women continually come to online partner search over time, which results in ongoing opportunities to meet people. We advise not to be deterred from partner search from age 80 and at an advanced age.
In addition, beyond partner search, Consonance (Gleichklang) also offers the opportunity to search for friends, projects, and communities. Members of Consonance can thus expand their social networking at an advanced age, overcome loneliness, and enter a happy new phase of life:
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