Amen, Sister! I hope I never have to re-enter the Dating Pool again in this lifetime. My poor Dad is re-entering it at age 68. He's clueless in many ways, but a "good catch" in his own estimation, because he's not broke and has good teeth, LOL! It's not a pretty thing to watch.
He won't take my advice to hang out at the Senior Center. He'd have his pick of the women there...they outnumber him 10 to 1. It would do his ego some good. :)
68 is too young to hang out at senior centers, where people consider themselves old. Really. If he lived in FL or other place where retired citizens congregate to live happy active lives, he'd just naturally become popular overnight with ladies who want to stay active and involved in life.
As a senior unwilling to act like one, I know this from personal experience. About five minutes after moving into a non-senior "gated community" in FL that had a clubhouse, pool, golf course, I had invitations to everything from everyone, met dozens of people within weeks, had a great deal of fun. And I'm a grrrrrl! Men have an even easier time.
I've been single for ages, lived all over the country. Believe me, those sunny places where you're outside much of the time present opportunities for meeting people that you just cannot imagine in snowy or rainy spots where people stay indoors. It just happens.