The last time you went for a drink with someone new, there may not have been an app. You do not need a new personality for that. The profile has to do the introducing that a friend used to do.
Use a photo from this year. A picture from the years you are thinking of will not match the person who walks in, and the first meeting will be spent on the correction. Say the decade. "I have not dated for a long time, I am in my fifties, and I would like to meet someone for a coffee" is enough. You do not have to explain the whole gap.
If the gap was a marriage, say divorced, separated, or widowed in one word. Those pages are after a divorce, separated, but not divorced, and after being widowed. If you were never married, say single. Still single, and never married is that page. If the ending was recent, just out of a relationship is the other one. You do not owe the story of why it has been so long.
A few messages, then a video call, then a public place. How long to talk before you meet is that order. You are allowed to be slow. There is no subscription making a long conversation expensive. We will never ask you for a fee. Anyone who does, before you have met, is the pattern in the romance-scam guide.
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