Why is dating after 35 such a beating?

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AggieArchitect04 said:

It sucks.
Why does it have to suck?
Cause your not gettin' it!!!
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39-year old discovers the joy of being alone.

It's the hottest new trend in 2025
AtticusMatlock
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She is kind of cute. I would probably get frisky with her if she was willing. Ngl
GAC06
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Enjoying being alone is a good thing most likely.

Calling that a "solo date" is huge red flag.
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Nobody has ever done me better than me.
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Champion of Fireball said:

Nobody has ever done me better than me.
You poor soul
Ags4DaWin
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She's BSC and if you bring her back to ur place she will burn it down. If you go back to her place she will accuse u of assault if u use her as a one night stand....which is all she is suitable for.

She is totally unsuitable for a long term relationship.....because....she's nuts. Look at the eyes.

Ur safer with the old rub and tug.

Any woman who calls going out on her own a solo date is off her rocker enough to try to kill you.

She is lonely and doesn't want to be alone....but she is crazy enough to have been able to convince herself that she enjoys being alone because the voices in her head tell her that she's not really alone after all. She's just too crazy to realize that the only consistent thing in every single one of her failed relationships over the past 15 years is her......but yeah it's the men that's the problem.

At her age she is on an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety meds, and probably a beta blocker because she is nuts and that is what they put crazy people on.

I assess the med histories of women over 30 all the time and eventually you get a good feeling for what a tpical person with ethnicity, weight, and age a, b, and c will be on.... and It's scary to see what these women are taking now adays.

80% of the ones who are unmarried over thirty are taking an antidepressant AND anti-anxiety meds and least two, sometimes three and a mood stabilizer and a sleep aid.....translation.....they are medically crazy.

Stay away.....far away.

If the wife dies I am sticking to hookers and blow.....white women today are nuts.
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"Solo dates" = I couldn't make it work with a number of people I dated so I go on hikes by myself and eat boxed macaroni alone.

ETA: but I make it seem like it's MY decision.
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AggieArchitect04 said:

It sucks.
Why does it have to suck?
Everybody good is taken. You're going to be sifting through the damaged divorcees now.
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This thread is BACK!
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Ags4DaWin said:

She's BSC and if you bring her back to ur place she will burn it down. If you go back to her place she will accuse u of assault if u use her as a one night stand....which is all she is suitable for.

She is totally unsuitable for a long term relationship.....because....she's nuts. Look at the eyes.

Ur safer with the old rub and tug.

Any woman who calls going out on her own a solo date is off her rocker enough to try to kill you.

She is lonely and doesn't want to be alone....but she is crazy enough to have been able to convince herself that she enjoys being alone because the voices in her head tell her that she's not really alone after all. She's just too crazy to realize that the only consistent thing in every single one of her failed relationships over the past 15 years is her......but yeah it's the men that's the problem.

At her age she is on an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety meds, and probably a beta blocker because she is nuts and that is what they put crazy people on.

I assess the med histories of women over 30 all the time and eventually you get a good feeling for what a tpical person with ethnicity, weight, and age a, b, and c will be on.... and It's scary to see what these women are taking now adays.

80% of the ones who are unmarried over thirty are taking an antidepressant AND anti-anxiety meds and least two, sometimes three and a mood stabilizer and a sleep aid.....translation.....they are medically crazy.

Stay away.....far away.

If the wife dies I am sticking to hookers and blow.....white women today are nuts.


Pot meet kettle... yikes.
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Relevant to this thread, a rather interesting article from the WSJ:

American Women are Giving Up on Marriage

I'm not sure if it's still behind a paywall, but I have included multiple quotes below. While some of the individual stories were beyond the pale, some of the statistics were quite interesting. It surprised me to see that young men were more interested in relationships and in marriage than were young women. Women don't seem to be as interested in the choices in front of them, for multiple reasons the article lists.

"Over half of single women said they believed they were happier than their married counterparts in a 2024 AEI survey of 5,837 adults. Just over a third of surveyed single men said the same.
2022 Pew survey of single adults showed only 34% of single women were looking for romance, compared with 54% of single men, down from 38% and 61% in 2019. Men were also more likely than women to say they were worried that nobody would want to date them."

In a 2023 Pew Research Center survey of 5,073 U.S. adults, 48% of women said that being married was not too or not at all important for a fulfilling life, compared with 39% of menup from 31% and 28% in 2019. In a 2024 Wall Street Journal/NORC poll, 58% of women aged 18 to 29 said marriage was at least somewhat essential to their vision of the American dream, compared with 66% of men."

" A 2023 AEI survey of college-educated women found that half blamed their singlehood largely on an inability to find someone who meets their expectations. Less than a quarter of single men said the same."


"A growing political divide between men and women has compounded the challenges of finding love. Around 39% of women ages 18 to 29 identified as liberal in 2024, according to Gallup, compared with 25% of their male peers. This gap has more than tripled in a decade: 32% of women and 28% of men called themselves liberal in 2014."

"In 2024 47% of American women ages 25-34 had a bachelor's degree, according to Pew, compared with 37% of men. A bachelor's degree increases net lifetime earnings by an estimated $1 million, according to a 2024 report from Georgetown University."

None of this looks great for the future of male and female relationships, specifically marriage, and I won't get too F16 or Religion Board here, but I don't think that bodes well for future children.
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It's a win for society if fewer liberals are raising children. [/F16]
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The most desirable women are getting married. The others are justifying their choices.
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I know I have seen studies that show that girls went hard left politically and boys went slightly right politically during the COVID lockdowns and BLM/George Floyd protest days. This probably has something to do with the current mismatch we are seeing, as the article also alludes to.

I won't lie, having a conservative to very conservative son, I wonder just what his choices in a mate are going to look like once he gets more serious about dating.
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Green2Maroon said:

Went on a lights out date a few weeks ago. We pretty much hung out at her place all night. Started out playing games and drinking, some music videos and what not. Then started lighting up some weed and vaping it. Things slowly grew more intense and we finally started doing it. She was a blast to hang out with and treated me like royalty. It didn't work out in the long run but she certainly lit a fire deep in me to get out there.


So you got my interest. In Minecraft you know where someone could pickup the devils lettuce?
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Question for the crew.

Whenever I meet someone I like I always tell her "I might not hit bottom but I'll sure as **** tear out the sides."

Good move or not?
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Champion of Fireball said:

Question for the crew.

Whenever I meet someone I like I always tell her "I might not hit bottom but I'll sure as **** tear out the sides."

Good move or not?

Yeah, that's perfect, Urkle.
maroon barchetta
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Vaping?

Good Lord.
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:p
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Kool said:

Relevant to this thread, a rather interesting article from the WSJ:

American Women are Giving Up on Marriage

I'm not sure if it's still behind a paywall, but I have included multiple quotes below. While some of the individual stories were beyond the pale, some of the statistics were quite interesting. It surprised me to see that young men were more interested in relationships and in marriage than were young women. Women don't seem to be as interested in the choices in front of them, for multiple reasons the article lists.

"Over half of single women said they believed they were happier than their married counterparts in a 2024 AEI survey of 5,837 adults. Just over a third of surveyed single men said the same.
2022 Pew survey of single adults showed only 34% of single women were looking for romance, compared with 54% of single men, down from 38% and 61% in 2019. Men were also more likely than women to say they were worried that nobody would want to date them."

In a 2023 Pew Research Center survey of 5,073 U.S. adults, 48% of women said that being married was not too or not at all important for a fulfilling life, compared with 39% of menup from 31% and 28% in 2019. In a 2024 Wall Street Journal/NORC poll, 58% of women aged 18 to 29 said marriage was at least somewhat essential to their vision of the American dream, compared with 66% of men."

" A 2023 AEI survey of college-educated women found that half blamed their singlehood largely on an inability to find someone who meets their expectations. Less than a quarter of single men said the same."


"A growing political divide between men and women has compounded the challenges of finding love. Around 39% of women ages 18 to 29 identified as liberal in 2024, according to Gallup, compared with 25% of their male peers. This gap has more than tripled in a decade: 32% of women and 28% of men called themselves liberal in 2014."

"In 2024 47% of American women ages 25-34 had a bachelor's degree, according to Pew, compared with 37% of men. A bachelor's degree increases net lifetime earnings by an estimated $1 million, according to a 2024 report from Georgetown University."

None of this looks great for the future of male and female relationships, specifically marriage, and I won't get too F16 or Religion Board here, but I don't think that bodes well for future children.

As someone who has been on and off dating apps for years, I see this all the time with the late 20's/early 30's women on dating apps. A lot of women these days are saying they dont want kids, of course this changes once they hit their mid to late 30's. Ive noticed this a lot with women who have divorced parents or bad relationships with their fathers.
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My single friends are amazingly picky but at the same time trying to shop above their pay grade based on things going on with their own lives. Like one of them - great looking, single mom of one, ok job, probably deep debt, car is borderline hoarder level messy, four cats / 3 dogs (two are huskies), animals not housebroken, house smells and is also a mess. She has a very specific type for guys and they end up not treating her well. Also has an asthetic type for women but has never dated one.

I'm guilty of this myself since being healthy is a must along with a decent job and able to handle being an actual adult, along with 'someone I'm actually attracted to' which is nigh impossible to describe. I want these things despite having my own massive list of drawbacks.

I think she's actually hoping to get married but I'm more agnostic about it and would even be fine if I did but we both somehow maintained our own places. I can't even imagine trying to integrate another person in the house with my kids and myself at this point, and I'm not sure someone else would even want to anyway
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Nervy loves kids. And dogs.
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The Fife said:

My single friends are amazingly picky but at the same time trying to shop above their pay grade based on things going on with their own lives. Like one of them - great looking, single mom of one, ok job, probably deep debt, car is borderline hoarder level messy, four cats / 3 dogs (two are huskies), animals not housebroken, house smells and is also a mess. She has a very specific type for guys and they end up not treating her well. Also has an asthetic type for women but has never dated one.

I'm guilty of this myself since being healthy is a must along with a decent job and able to handle being an actual adult, along with 'someone I'm actually attracted to' which is nigh impossible to describe. I want these things despite having my own massive list of drawbacks.

I think she's actually hoping to get married but I'm more agnostic about it and would even be fine if I did but we both somehow maintained our own places. I can't even imagine trying to integrate another person in the house with my kids and myself at this point, and I'm not sure someone else would even want to anyway



Red flag central. Shes probably a porn star when the lights go out

Hard pass
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maroon barchetta said:

Nervy loves kids. And dogs.

Wrong state though
maroon barchetta
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She travels a lot.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Aggie Dad 26 said:

The Fife said:

My single friends are amazingly picky but at the same time trying to shop above their pay grade based on things going on with their own lives. Like one of them - great looking, single mom of one, ok job, probably deep debt, car is borderline hoarder level messy, four cats / 3 dogs (two are huskies), animals not housebroken, house smells and is also a mess. She has a very specific type for guys and they end up not treating her well. Also has an asthetic type for women but has never dated one.

I'm guilty of this myself since being healthy is a must along with a decent job and able to handle being an actual adult, along with 'someone I'm actually attracted to' which is nigh impossible to describe. I want these things despite having my own massive list of drawbacks.

I think she's actually hoping to get married but I'm more agnostic about it and would even be fine if I did but we both somehow maintained our own places. I can't even imagine trying to integrate another person in the house with my kids and myself at this point, and I'm not sure someone else would even want to anyway



Red flag central. Shes probably a porn star when the lights go out

Hard pass

Depression leads to feeling overwhelmed and it can kind of spiral. We're close and sort of helping each other out with that. It's not to the same degree but I feel overwhelmed myself with all of the things to do. Two sets of hands make a lighter load, but if another guy comes back into her life he's going to need to step up.
The Fife
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To SC?! If Savannah or Charleston end up a thing I'll gladly show her around the town
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id say because medium ugly girls think they deserve a Chad. hth
the most cool guy
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Ok, but what about Latinas and Asian chicks? Are those cool or nah?
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Do I know you???
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Ags4DaWin
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Kool said:

I know I have seen studies that show that girls went hard left politically and boys went slightly right politically during the COVID lockdowns and BLM/George Floyd protest days. This probably has something to do with the current mismatch we are seeing, as the article also alludes to.

I won't lie, having a conservative to very conservative son, I wonder just what his choices in a mate are going to look like once he gets more serious about dating.


Women have swung hard left.

But still want men to play their traditional role of doing the heavy lifting for them- paying for dates, the bills, taking care of them, etc....while the women do absolutely nothing to fill traditional gender roles.

It's not really a political philosophy so much as it is narcissism and selfishness.

Leftist philosophy at its core is the philosophy of taking no responsibility for your own situation or actions and telling other people they should take care of you and pay your way and that you are a victim if you are not where you want to be in life.

Apparently the majority of women love that.

When you find one who doesn't snatch her up.
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Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X) have created unrealistic expectations for both men and women about how their lives should be 'fun' at all times. When they don't get it, they bail and have no fortitude to work thru the ups/downs in life.

I've been married 32 1/2 years. It's been good most of the time, hard some times and great to fantastic sometimes. When we fight we just take turns apologizing. One time a few hours after a fight I walked into the kitchen and we looked at each other and at the same time said "I forgive you", then laughed and hugged each other. We both still remember that, but have no clue what that fight was about.

I think to many people are simply to cowardly to admit they are wrong an apologize. Also selfish.
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Ego, pride, and "loving yourself" is probably the root cause of the majority of the issues with today's world.
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Oh my!
 
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