Dating in Midlife When You Swore You Were Done (The Summer of George #11)

The Scarlet Edit: Infidelity, Divorce, Starting Over. · Aug 28, 2026 · 14m

Getting back on the dating apps in your 40s after you swore you were done with them? That was me in June. If you go back through my old episodes, you'll hear me say more than once that I hated dating apps and would never do them again. I meant it. Then I changed my mind, got back on one, and went in with a completely different mindset — and the whole summer opened up because of it.

This week I'm talking about two mantras that have been running my life lately: you can just do things, and you can change your mind. I get into why the words you say to yourself matter more than you think, why I…