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Over40CONNECT brings adults in the Ottawa–Gatineau area together through in-person events and an online community.
Members can meet new people, build friendships, and explore dating at their own pace.
Sue McGarvie founded the community to make those first conversations easier and give people more opportunities to meet, connect and build relationships in real life.

Having good relationships and good friendships is the best thing you can do to live longer.”
That’s according to Sue McGarvie, an Ottawa clinical sex and relationship counselor.

For Sue McGarvie, Clinical Sex & Relationship Counselor, it was about all the lonely people. “The pandemic just magnified how many people are lonely,” says McGarvie.

Ottawa's dating scene for Gen X and Boomers is, well, booming, thanks to Sue McGarvie. The high-profile dating, sex and relationship expert is the driving force behind Over40CONNECT...

Sue McGarvie blames the pandemic for near-epidemic levels of loneliness. She also believes it started years before COVID-19 and places the blame on swipe-focused dating apps.
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