Off The Grid

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Robert Levithan travels to Turkey and unplugs from everything. He strives to live in the moment, until he has to return to his world of emails, Skype calls, and constant communication.

In Dog Years

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Robert Levithan’s not sure any more if he’s going to outlive Sophie or if she’s going to outlive him.

The Risk Junkie

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When Robert Levithan turned 60, it sprung a lock.

“Living is not for the sake of others approval…If you lose yourself, you lose everything.”

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Comment by ValterV on Be Yourself: Everybody Else is Taken by Robert Levithan Living is not for the sake of others’ approval, it’s for enjoying it the utmost. If you lose others, you’ll find someone else. If you lose yourself, you lose everything. Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. Few [...]

A Gay, Hippie-Generation Vietnam Protestor Has Some Advice for You

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Occupy Wall Street and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell may mark the beginning of the end of an era of complacency, fundamentalism, and a privileged few.

On Dating Someone Young Enough to Be Your Grandson

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‘I have a problem that many would not, on the surface, see as a problem: I’m getting hit on by men in their early twenties—a lot.’

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Paying the Bill

In The New 60, Robert Levithan navigates love and relationships. Here, he wonders whether his dad’s habit of fibbing affects his attraction to “trouble.”

Sex at 60

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Psychotherapist Robert Levithan brings his Advocate column, The New 60, to the Good Men Project. In this first installment, he writes about the benefits of dating younger men and generally not acting his age.