Ready, Reset, Mate
Restart Dating as an Older Adult
by Brian Helstrom

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Ready, Reset, Mate is a dating guide for mature adults who are likely looking for love the second time around in a vastly different dating culture. This indispensable handbook focuses on understanding your readiness to date, using the Internet to find potential partners, forming a connection, and establishing a healthy foundation for building a relationship. Finding a relationship means you may have to date many people. Ready, Reset, Mate provides a method to help minimize that number before finding your best-fit partner. It details the fundamentals of choosing a partner: why we want one, what to look for, and how to define the best fit, and concludes with how to hang onto a relationship once you have found one. It is about becoming the best version of yourself, knowing what you are looking for, and creating a strategy for meeting that special someone. Dating can be like finding that infamous needle in a haystack, fraught with challenges and issues, especially if you are not ready for them. Helstrom talked with both male and female daters about their challenges and problems and has captured their concerns along with his own experiences to provide valuable, time-saving tips for those who may not have yet dated in the Internet era.

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"A quick and easy guide to dating for those in Generation X and older." —Kirkus Reviews

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Brian Helstrom (BA, BSc, MSc, Ph.D.) studied Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science, and Human Interaction at Brock University and Guelph University. Recognized as a consulting expert and thought leader, Helstrom had a successful consulting career spanning twenty-five years which posted him around the globe with businesses from the Financial, Energy, Transportation, and Media sectors. Throughout his career, he obtained many levels of accreditation, including Distinguished IT Architect, Certified Consultant, Executive Consultant, Master IT Specialist, Information Systems Professional, IT Certified Professional and more. After his marriage of twenty-two years ended, he dated for twenty-four years seeking his soulmate. In Ready, Reset, Mate, Helstrom set out to capture the lessons he has learned as a layman and to hone a process for finding the right person in a new dating ethos dominated by social media and dating apps. Helstrom lives in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and has three sons and three grandchildren.

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