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#325303 - 03/03/05 03:35 PM Dating Troubles
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I am so tired of dating!!! I am a 25 year old female, and I just want to meet someone decent that wants a relationship. I'm so tired of going out on date after date and getting nowhere. I hate it when you go out with a guy and you feel like you both have had a good time, only to never hear from them again. I thought i would post and see if any other single women are just as frustrated!!

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#325304 - 03/03/05 03:46 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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I'm not sure where you are located, butercup, but I totally agree. In my town you also have the problem that there is a college and a large retirement community here. Basically all the guys leave at 24 and come back with their families at 50. It's slim pickins for those of us in the 25-35 age range.
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#325305 - 03/03/05 03:50 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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It doesn't get any better when you are 50 either. All of the men in this age range want the women that are 35 to 40. And what, pray tell, would a 35 year old woman want with a 50ish year old man!?!?!? Good grief, when he is 70, she will be 55......
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#325306 - 03/03/05 04:14 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Being a 31 year old divorced mother of two makes dating a blast! Ok, I'm kidding dating just stinks...period!
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#325307 - 03/03/05 04:24 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Being 24 and male is not easy either.
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#325308 - 03/03/05 04:52 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Thanks for posting skunk boy. I didnt mean to sound like I was coming down on guys. I know it is frustrating for everyone

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#325309 - 03/03/05 07:35 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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I am almost 24 and I think single life is awesome.

Hey Butercup, Skunkboy sounds available.
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#325310 - 03/03/05 07:36 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Yeah...22 and male and working in a new town while being by far the YOUNGEST at the bank doesn't set up too many dates either.
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#325311 - 03/03/05 07:58 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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I have one word for the date seekers.....laundromat.

I've met more good dates at the laundromat than anywhere else.

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#325312 - 03/03/05 07:58 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Yeah...22 and male and working in a new town while being by far the YOUNGEST at the bank doesn't set up too many dates either.




Are you the token male at your bank too?
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#325313 - 03/03/05 08:01 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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I am the youngest at my bank and I like it. Gets me plenty of attention.
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#325314 - 03/03/05 10:03 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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OK, you guys are scaring me. I'm 41 and newly separated (right at 1 week). After 22 years, I have no idea what to expect.

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#325315 - 03/03/05 10:14 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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You think that's bad, try being 42 and married with kids ... oh wait - that's a different thread.

Don't feel bad, Nancy. I was 35 or 36 and separated - spent 1 year depressed, spent 1 year having casual "dates", and then let myself get swooped up all over again, had the 2nd wedding in my lifetime, 2nd bachelor party, 2nd honeymoon, got a great daughter with it, and just added two more rugrats to the equation.

I figure I'll maybe try it all over again in a few years !

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#325316 - 03/03/05 10:23 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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I figure I'll maybe try it all over again in a few years !




CubDave, if you remarry every two years, you'll break Larry King's record in 2025 (assuming of course that his current wife is his last- a tenuous assumption to be sure!)
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#325317 - 03/03/05 10:27 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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CubDave, if you remarry every two years, you'll break Larry King's record in 2025




But it will be 2031 before breaking Elizabeth Taylors, and 3105 before breaking Zsa Zsa Gabors!
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#325318 - 03/03/05 10:29 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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I have one word for the date seekers.....laundromat.

I've met more good dates at the laundromat than anywhere else.




Yeah, but I've got a good theory about laundromats....

"Don't ever try to pick up a woman at a laundromat. If she can't afford a washer and dryer, odds are she won't be able to support you!"

Skunk, yes I am and I get the envious task of being the one who always gets called when there's a computer problem or if a box needs moved. There are other males, but they're all over 35 and either can't or won't do it. All the women here are 35 or older and married. BOOOOO
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#325319 - 03/03/05 10:42 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Thanks Dave. I know it will be OK. I'll eventually find someone. I'm not sure about the second fancy wedding and all that and I am not having more kids. My 18 year old daughter would think that was just too weird!

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#325320 - 03/03/05 10:46 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Maybe your daughter and Skunk Boy should date! On a more serious note, I assume by the tone of your post, Nancy, that you are farily confident this is not a temporary separation?

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#325321 - 03/03/05 10:48 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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It really looks that way.

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#325322 - 03/03/05 10:52 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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It will eventually be ok - embrace those things you always put last on your priority list (and maybe haven;t done in years) because they were "me" things and enjoy doing them - whether it was reading, exercising, etc.

For me, one of the strange things I did was to drive for a couple hours to areas I hadn't been in a while and eat at out of the way diners & restaurants by myself. I still find time to find a diner, get a newspaper, and eat, drink coffee and chain smoke by myself!

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#325323 - 03/03/05 10:58 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Thank you for your kind words of support. Those are exactly the kind of things I plan to do. Too many years spent doing what someone else wanted to do.

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#325324 - 03/03/05 11:03 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Exactly! (which I try to avoid in my 2nd marriage - somewhat successful but not always possible). Do yourself a favor and let yourself be bummed/unhappy/miserable if you want - obviously, if you can avoid letting it effect your kids, that is good. But if you let yourself be bummed a bit before you start doing the things you want to do, you'll enjoy it more. Otherwise, you will waste all those forgotten experiences by having a black cloud over your head the first time you reenter those long awaited adventures.

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#325325 - 03/03/05 11:48 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Yeah...22 and male and working in a new town while being by far the YOUNGEST at the bank doesn't set up too many dates either.




Well, just a thought from an female in her twenties...the fact that you have Napoleon Dynomite as your avatar probably doesn't help either...
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#325326 - 03/04/05 03:43 AM Re: Dating Troubles
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...the fact that you have Napoleon Dynomite as your avatar probably doesn't help either...




LOL!

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#325327 - 03/04/05 02:19 PM Re: Dating Troubles
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Quote:

Quote:

Yeah...22 and male and working in a new town while being by far the YOUNGEST at the bank doesn't set up too many dates either.




Well, just a thought from an female in her twenties...the fact that you have Napoleon Dynomite as your avatar probably doesn't help either...




What?!?!? I thought that was totally sweet. I was hoping that my banking skills would help me get a girlfriend, seeing as how girls only want boyfriends with sweet skills. I'm open to suggestions for change, especially from a female in her twenties!
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