After 15 months I got the, "It's not you, it's me" speech. Great back to dating again in the over 50 pool...

Ugh. I'm sorry brother. I cannot imagine having to do that. I'd prob just remain single.

Too bad they don’t have a batch and you could kick that drug.

Sorry to hear that. But it is true that better days are ahead.

Online dating is insane these days! Hookers, trannies, gold diggers, and scammers abound. Lots of liars who post old photos that show them 15 years younger and 30 pounds lighter than they are now. Or photos which aren't even them. I swear that one profile was either an ad for access to her young teen daughter or a police sting operation. Half the photos had her daughter in them.

The most surprising to me were the women openly saying they were looking for a polyamorous situation or had an open marriage. I give them credit for honesty, but that stuff is way out of my comfort zone. Especially since my ex-wife was a serial cheater.

A lot of divorced women, at least around here and in my age range, married relatively young and didn't have a lot of partying before marriage. So they'd go crazy sleeping around for a year or two, then suddenly become all mature and try to land a financially responsible husband to support them.

I was lucky that a widow found me after I'd stopped using a dating site. She'd not dated beyond a couple of coffee dates before we met. She's the only undamaged woman I met.

Todays dating tip: Have the lady drive to your chosen location and offer to meet her at her car. Look into the car. If the interior looks like a dumpster behind a Waffle House, run fast and run far.

When I think of dating in today's culture I think of a scene in "Crocodile Dundee" where he's about to pick up a broad in a saloon and finds out the broad is a dude.

I'm not sure how to protect against that. Carry an at-home-DNA-test and make her take it?

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"Crocodile Dundee" where he's about to pick up a broad in a saloon and finds out the broad is a dude

Reminds me of that Aerosmith song "Dude Looks Like a Lady".

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Today’s dating tip: Have the lady drive to your chosen location and offer to meet her at her car. Look into the car. If the interior looks like a dumpster behind a Waffle House, run fast and run far.

Well I did walk her to her car afterwards. The interior didn’t look like a Waffle House dumpster and she doesn’t drive a Subaru….

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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"Crocodile Dundee" where he's about to pick up a broad in a saloon and finds out the broad is a dude

Reminds me of that Aerosmith song "Dude Looks Like a Lady".

"I know all there is to know about the Crying Game."

https://vimeo.com/87567818

Dating in AK could be tough. The pool potentially a little thin.

If needed, you could take a peek at the Far East. If nothing else, you’re a fair bit closer than us in the lower 48.

I’m on the cusp of just being with the dog. If things get more serious than girlfriend I plan to set a few forms on the table for signature. My thought is just to remove a few things from potential contention, no matter how good things may seem.

Sorry to hear that. Sometimes it's better to find contentment being single. There are some advantages, and if you don't turn into a shut-in there's always the chance that the right person will come along naturally. The active dating scene, especially online, just seems like a minefield of stress, drama, fraud, and broken dreams.

I used to work with an old guy who said any woman sorry enough to have him wasn’t good enough for him.

At your age (my age) I don’t even know why you would try. If my wife passed I would never enter the dating pool unless some kind of hallmark channel miracle occurred. Nope. And a second nope. You guys stories sound terrifying. Me the dog and a cat sound plenty ok.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
At your age (my age) I don’t even know why you would try. If my wife passed I would never enter the dating pool unless some kind of hallmark channel miracle occurred. Nope. And a second nope. You guys stories sound terrifying. Me the dog and a cat sound plenty ok.

^^^This. The fact that I'm 74 just confirms my decision. And I don't watch the Hallmark channel

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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"Crocodile Dundee" where he's about to pick up a broad in a saloon and finds out the broad is a dude

Reminds me of that Aerosmith song "Dude Looks Like a Lady".

I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like coca cola
C-O-L-A, Cola

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
L-O-L-A, Lola
La-la-la-la Lola