What is the effect of ageism on your love life?
The topic of romantic life is something that you have encountered a lot in your life. I don’t think there’s any purer form of ageism since something positive becomes negative just because the discussed age group changes. The most damaging effects of this form of ageism show themselves when it becomes internalized, restricting late-life possibilities and opportunities for seniors.
That’s when older people believe that they are too old to fall in love and experience romance and intimacy. One of the reasons behind most internalized ageist beliefs is that the victims constantly think, “What would other people think?” and make these beliefs internalized out of fear of social rejection. As a result, they give this overthinking a chance to take away a potential romantic life from them.