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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
After 15 months I got the, "It's not you, it's me" speech. Great back to dating again in the over 50 pool... My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | ||
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In Odin we trust |
Ugh. I'm sorry brother. I cannot imagine having to do that. I'd prob just remain single. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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Too bad they don’t have a batch and you could kick that drug. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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| No More Mr. Nice Guy |
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. | |||
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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. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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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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Reminds me of that Aerosmith song "Dude Looks Like a Lady". _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing |
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…. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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"I know all there is to know about the Crying Game." https://vimeo.com/87567818 | |||
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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. | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
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. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
I used to work with an old guy who said any woman sorry enough to have him wasn’t good enough for him. | |||
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____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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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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| Three Generations of Service  |
^^^This. The fact that I'm 74 just confirms my decision. And I don't watch the Hallmark channel  Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
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 | |||
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| No More Mr. Nice Guy |
That's exactly where I was, just wanting a good dog. I'd all but deleted my online profile and had stopped actively pursuing social gatherings to meet women. My job precluded having a dog, but I figured I could wait out a couple of years to retirement then get one. That's when my now-wife contacted me. I almost didn't bother to go for the coffee meeting. As for documents, yeah I highly recommend it! Whatever financial arrangement is logical for a couple, it needs to be formally agreed to and signed. It won't prevent all possible conflicts but it reduces them. | |||
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| Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
If I felt the need for a prenup, I wouldn't be getting married. There are a lot more important things than money and physical possessions, so if I can't trust her with those, I can't trust her with the rest either, and that makes her the wrong woman. I'd rather be single than in a marriage like that. | |||
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| Eye on the Silver Lining |
^^^I hear what you’re saying, and back when I was barely in my 20s I would’ve agreed with you. At this stage in the game, though, there might be children/ other family involved. If I were getting remarried, I would want to make sure that my kids/family members get their inheritance: be it money, the house, land, whatever. And by a prenup, my new spouse (and any relations they may have associated to them) completely understood that. I guess I’ve just read too many stories where somebody new walked in and either they or their family swooped up everything that had been built in a previous relationship. __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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| No More Mr. Nice Guy |
We each have children and grandchildren, and we brought different net wealth into the marriage. Really our choices were to 1) Have the prenup and all the trusts/wills etc, or 2) Get married but maintain completely separate finances in our individual names (legally a weak arrangement), or 3) Remain unmarried (but face the issue of common law marriage). Were there no children, I'd just as happily mingle everything just as in a first marriage. Additionally, I watched my step-grandmother steal literally scores of millions of dollars from our side of the family when my biological grandfather passed away. He trusted her completely, and she was to all of us just Grandma. Fully part of the family. But when he died she changed her will to direct everything to her children rather than agreed upon equal sharing. Blood is thicker than water, and money more precious than integrity, to many people. | |||
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