A high school friend and I wound up taking our friendship a little further, and 20 seconds into the act that would change my life forever, he stopped. My friend said I was too much like a sister, and he couldn’t continue. I worried about how that incident would affect our friendship. Little did I know my worries would extend far beyond that concern. Less than a week later, I found myself in excruciating pain.

As our generation gets a little older, a surprising number of us are putting on our dancing shoes and getting back in the senior dating game. After all, more women over 60 are single than ever before, whether that’s due to divorce or widowhood or just never having been married in the first place.

These are the qualities a man either has or comes with that you can’t tolerate in your life. Men also have Deal Breakers when it comes to dating you. But the difference between the sexes is men honor their Deal Breakers. You’ll see this when a man is in a relationship with a woman for years and years, and yet he won’t marry her. In his mind, she has a Deal Breaker that isn’t suitable for marriage. We as women have a tendency not to honor our Deal Breakers when it comes to men.