I know one man who started attending church for just this reason. He was a divorcee in his early forties and not particularly religious. He had noticed that there were a substantial number of single (for one reason or the other) women his age attending church, so he became a regular patron. This worked out well for him. He was able to attend all kinds of social functions, and meet single mature women. But despite how well this worked out, it’s a lot of trouble to go to when there is an easier way to go about it.
Deprived of the meat market, mature women are now meeting potential partners via online dating. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, really. After all the whole point of online dating is to lay all your cards on the table from the start, and see who is interested. This suits that mature woman’s frame of mind. Nothing like the ticking of the biological clock to give a girl a sense of efficiency in dating. No time to mess around when forty is just around the corner.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that mature women make up a large percentage of online daters. Housewives play a lot of online games, and once one is accustomed to the feeling of an online community, it’s a short step from using it to find entertainment to using it to find love.