omg, "last century." thanks for making me feel old. that's when i met my husband as well.
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You know you are old when you are in the last age bracket offered on a website when you have to give your age.
We met in 1996 at the Olympics. Married two years later.
Yeah it probably is, I just have a lot more success online for initial meetings. I don't like meeting women at bars etc and I'm not really sure where single people go to meet these days. I'm pretty sure the meta is just to signup for hinge/tinder/bumble and go from there. When I met my ex, I didn't have snapchat, IG, or Facebook and she was genuinely concerned for her safety until she actually go to know me. It makes sense from a woman's perspective I suppose.
Anyway, you're very lucky to be settled as dating today is quite hilarious and not always in a good way.
This is what I like to call distraction time. Keep yourself busy, friends, gaming, drugs (jk) anything to keep your mind off of the waiting & uncertainty.
Two years? I knew when I met her. We would have been married sooner but I was living in a different part of the country at the time. We got engaged after two months officially.
That's awesome. I'm happy for you both, that is truly beautiful.
Got you beat on the start: Met her in October 1999. Proposed to her Christmas Eve. Married February 2000. We has 22 years and had to kids turning 19 and 24 this month.
Sadly, she left 2.5 years ago with them. Waiting on finalization paperwork.
NEVER take anyone for granted.
Sorry to hear that. I’d be lost without Mrs AFB. I never take her for granted.Got you beat on the start: Met her in October 1999. Proposed to her Christmas Eve. Married February 2000. We has 22 years and had to kids turning 19 and 24 this month.
Sadly, she left 2.5 years ago with them. Waiting on finalization paperwork.
NEVER take anyone for granted.
I know I'm old because stuff that didn't hurt yesterday, hurts today. LOL?
Atlanta?
If you are willing to talk to random people, it becomes much easier. I was always able to do this so it was much easier. I remember my first week of college, a bunch of us from our floor were out at a pizza place and a group of girls walked in. All the guys I was with were chicken 💩 and wouldn't go talk to them. So I got up and walked over and within 5 minutes we were all at a big table. Derrick and Julie have been married for 35 years now. Once you realize they are just as nervous/scared as you are, it becomes easier.
Look at joining clubs for things you are interested in. Might not find a single person there, but you might meet his/her friend, sister or neighbor and you go from there.
Yeah I dont really have a problem cold approaching, I just prefer meeting girls from the comfort of my house in my PJ's while playing cod.
Speaking as a woman 25+ years removed from the dating scene.....you might have to put in a little more effort than that.
Please, please, please, - as a grown ass woman (to use an expression my American interlocutors might get, or understand, or relate to), might I request - implore you, entreat you, beseech you - to refer to the people you wish to date, or meet, or even hook up with, as "women", and not as....... "girls".
Not least because one devoutly hopes that you wish to date women, rather than, girls.
I write as one who has never quite understood the appeal (and I have heard it seriously defended by male acquaintances) of Lolita.
Even in my teens - and that is quite some time ago - I must admit to that pronounced, and profoundly uncomfortable, squirming sensation - the one where the feeling is the kind of "ick" that signals the onset of an unsettled stomach, sort of reminiscent of the sordid sight of a sink, or pool, of filthy water lapping against some barrier, or wall....whenever I heard an adult male discuss a desire to meet "girls" rather than women.
Anyway, I agree (completely) with @mollyc - whose post I have taken the liberty of quoting:
Amen, @mollyc.
As one inter-millenial traveler to another, it's also "last millenium".
Fierce winds have caused a large fire that's spread out of the mountains into the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.....too close for comfort
The Palisades wildfire has burned over 2,200 acres and is still not contained. The winds are so strong that they are picking up dust and soot and blowing them around. The smoke and ash are making it difficult to breathe, even though I am in an area away from there, so I'm staying indoors as much as possible.
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Joining clubs, volunteering, anything basically in the real world is much more likely to end up in a real relationship (whether romantic or otherwise) than an online relationship.
Agreed. Relationships take effort. Whether it’s an existing one or a new one.
I’d hate to be back on the dating scene these days. But if I was I’d certainly not try online as a place to meet people.
Sounds like a good way to get scammed from half of what I read.
Yep. I have friends who live near the beach there and they've already had to evacuate.
There's also another fire burning near Pasadena. This is apparently the driest start to the year on record. We've effectively had no rain since last spring where I am.
Are there women out there who are turned on by a guy sitting at home in his PJ's playing with a large fish