In 2023, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, released a Surgeon General Advisory on what he termed “the public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in our country.” Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he said, approximately half of U.S. adults reported experiencing measurable levels of loneliness.

I asked those of you who have successfully found friendship and romantic partnership at a later stage in life to write in. I shared some of those great responses last Thursday and, as promised, some more today.

I asked those of you who have successfully found friendship and romantic partnership at a later stage in life to write in.

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas shares reader responses about how to find new relationships as a senior citizen.