Women Over 40 - Why It's Not Too Late For Love

By Joel Peter Vitug


In 1971, Carole King released the record of the year, It's Too Late. A classic standard, it has always resonated with women. It is a timeless song about falling in love, staying in love, and falling out of love.
Over 30 years later, women over 40 have grown up with the award-winning song. They have experienced love, worked hard for love, and sometimes, fallen out of it. However, unlike the song, it's never too late for women to find new love; or for those lucky enough to be in love, to improve current relationships.
Contrary to popular belief, at the wonderful age of 40, women do not have excess baggage; they have experience. Women who have reached this milestone have an understanding of life and its ups and downs, from the giddiness of falling in love for the first time to the heartbreak of letting go. Time and again, women over 40 have proven themselves more secure, more stable, and yes, more savvy at life and love.
The technology available for women over 40 has opened doors for new love that have never been available before. The Internet has made searching for new love easier than ever. From matchmaking sites to forums, from dating communities to missed connections, going online has given women over 40 wider playing fields. They now have bolder ways to connect and more chances to find relationships, whether stable, long-term attachments or instantaneous and fleeting acquaintances.
The online community has also provided one key element to women over 40 looking for love and looking to sustain and improve relationships: a network of experienced and knowledgeable women who share the same perspective of hope and optimism. Women over 40 are not over the hill. Rather, they are strong, successful, sensitive women who just happened to belong to a number.
Online communities and forums are great sounding boards for the frustrations of keeping the flame alive. Especially for women over 40 who are in committed, long-term relationships, forums are an easy and accessible way to narrate experiences, ask for opinion, and share relationship highs and lows to mentors and friends.
The current openness in society has also helped more mature women look past age as a number and define it as an attitude when dealing with new love and ongoing relationships. There is no more stigma attached to May-December relationships, and more and more women over 40 are now enjoying the same thrill of finding a new flame as if they were 20, except with a brighter and fresher perspective.
So who says women over 40 are too late? As a number, 40 is an age of maturity and perspective. Women now have greater freedom to select potential and sustain existing partners. As an attitude, 40 can be anywhere from 16 to 65, and the outlook all depends on how women over 40 see life and live life. The important thing is to connect with women of the same age, with whom one could share experience, advice, and inspiration.
The i40 Club is a community of women over 40, who, like all women of that age, have lived life and are now sharing advice, mentors, and tools to help other women at the same crossroad in their lives. Filled with information ranging from health, relationship, friendship, family, inspiration, to just plain funny resources, the i40 Club is relevant because the topics are chosen by women over 40 for women over 40.

By Joel Peter Vitug