Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.
The Peking man was a thinking being standing erect dating to the beginning...
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.