Word: companionism
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Single seniors who long to travel but want to share the expenses and experiences should consider joining the Travel Companion Exchange. This highly regarded service uses in-depth personal profiles to match up like-minded travelers within its active database of 2,500 members. But if you're a single who treasures your unmarried state, beware. TCE is so skilled at creating compatible pairings that at least 800 of its 16,000 clients since 1982 have become permanent partners. Neither Sherry Winder, 60, a divorced ice-skating teacher from Arlington, Va., nor David Cook, 64, a divorced computer programmer from...
...gloves, and--a nice touch--sends them to her. Thus begins a courtship defined by emotional compromise, misunderstood signals and the sort of betrayals that dent relationships but do not, in the real world, end them. Because, for a lonely person, something is better than nothing. "Mirabelle needs a companion," says Martin, "someone to talk to. I think that happens in life too. People get together, even if it's not right, to have someone to talk...
...website, time.com has created an online companion to our Education Special Report, which will include a weekly column by Jodie Morse and links to useful information related to our stories...
...Martin: She needs a companion, someone to talk to. I think that happens in life too. People get together, even if it?s not right, to have someone to talk...
DIED. PAULA YATES, 41, fizzy British TV personality, former wife of singer Sir Bob Geldof and companion of Australian rock star Michael Hutchence before his death; of undetermined causes; in London. Described by a friend as "a Holly Golightly who swore," she was on the cusp of a comeback after three years of depression, drinking and drug abuse following Hutchence's death...