Thread of Love 3.0

[Sarcastic]

I am noooot single. Look at my name. I say goofy stuff I don't mean. I just think people take things and themselves, even, too seriously sometimes.

[Sarcastic]

I probably have more experience here than anyone else with the dating scene. Remeber, I've been single for 25 years since I turned 21. That's a lot of dating.

Yeah. Why aren't you married? I meet more and more guys who just aren't interested.

[Sarcastic]

Nevermind. I think I got my answer on previous page.

[Sarcastic]

I was talking to a friend of mine recently and he flat out said it's too difficult. He goes to his friends' homes and the wife's annoying and the kids are screaming and he says to hell with it. Money problems. I can see that side of the argument. Couple that with the fact close to 50% of marriages break up. I mean, it's sometimes not that easy to have a truly happy marriage. Many are more like a business relationship. Couples who go through the motions because they're already married.

[ExPatriatePen]

I probably have more experience here than anyone else with the dating scene. Remeber, I've been single for 25 years since I turned 21. That's a lot of dating.

Yeah. Why aren't you married? I meet more and more guys who just aren't interested.

I need a pretty good reason... haven't found one

[Malkamaniac]

lol

[ExPatriatePen]

Asking EPP for relationship advice is like asking FreeCandy44 for advice on tipping.

So... I'm curious. I won't argue with you that I'm not the best source for advice on how to make a relationship last, but I'm not sure why you'd make that comment and I'm curious... care to share?

[Sarcastic]

I probably have more experience here than anyone else with the dating scene. Remeber, I've been single for 25 years since I turned 21. That's a lot of dating.

Yeah. Why aren't you married? I meet more and more guys who just aren't interested.

I need a pretty good reason... haven't found one

Cuddle time?

[Juice]

CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE BUTTHURT TRAIN

[Froggy]

If I was 100% sold on marriage, right now, I'd either still be stuck with someone who made me miserable, or somehow even poorer than I am now after a divorce.

[ExPatriatePen]

CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE BUTTHURT TRAIN

Butt Hurt? Not hardly. I'm infinitely better off as a single man than I was in a bad marriage. It sure doesn't feel like it when you first get divorced, but after a year or two, you begin to wonder why you ever put up with it.

[Sarcastic]

If I was 100% sold on marriage, right now, I'd either still be stuck with someone who made me miserable, or somehow even poorer than I am now after a divorce.

Let me ask you a question, if I may. Were you guys wrong for each other from the start or did you just somehow end up screwing it up? I find this stuff interesting because I see a lot of couples get together for wrong reasons. Then the wonder why it didn't work.

[ExPatriatePen]

I probably have more experience here than anyone else with the dating scene. Remeber, I've been single for 25 years since I turned 21. That's a lot of dating.

Yeah. Why aren't you married? I meet more and more guys who just aren't interested.

I need a pretty good reason... haven't found one

Cuddle time?

You don't need to be married for that

[Sarcastic]

CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE BUTTHURT TRAIN

Butt Hurt? Not hardly. I'm infinitely better off as a single man than I was in a bad marriage. It sure doesn't feel like it when you first get divorced, but after a year or two, you begin to wonder why you ever put up with it.

But no cuddle time.

[Sarcastic]

I probably have more experience here than anyone else with the dating scene. Remeber, I've been single for 25 years since I turned 21. That's a lot of dating.

Yeah. Why aren't you married? I meet more and more guys who just aren't interested.

I need a pretty good reason... haven't found one

Cuddle time?

You don't need to be married for that

Ohhhhh. Backpages. Gotcha.

[ExPatriatePen]

CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE BUTTHURT TRAIN

Butt Hurt? Not hardly. I'm infinitely better off as a single man than I was in a bad marriage. It sure doesn't feel like it when you first get divorced, but after a year or two, you begin to wonder why you ever put up with it.

But no cuddle time.

Again, I probably get more of that than most married couples.

I also get the excitement that comes with the early parts of a relationship, that energy of the initial attraction. What I don't get is that comfortable feeling of knowing your partner as well as you know yourself, and yes, I do miss that.

[Sarcastic]

Well, you make a lot of money from what I gather. Good for you.

[Sarcastic]

EPP. You got me thinking now. Cuddle time decreases in many marriages. Why the hell is that? Is it because people let themselves go and they're not attractive anymore?

[ExPatriatePen]

EPP. You got me thinking now. Cuddle time decreases in many marriages. Why the hell is that? Is it because people let themselves go and they're not attractive anymore?

I can only speak from personal experience. But one of my favorite sayings on that subject is "It's hard to cuddle a cactus"

That goes both ways. When you're at odds with your partner on even the smallest subject, it takes some real maturity to agree to put the differences aside for a few hours / night and celebrate the good things in your relationship.

But thats MHO

[Factorial]

EPP. You got me thinking now. Cuddle time decreases in many marriages. Why the hell is that? Is it because people let themselves go and they're not attractive anymore?

I can only speak from personal experience. But one of my favorite sayings on that subject is "It's hard to cuddle a cactus"

That goes both ways. When you're at odds with your partner on even the smallest subject, it takes some real maturity to agree to put the differences aside for a few hours / night and celebrate the good things in your relationship.

But thats MHO

[since1970]

Daing over 40 can be a trainwreck, when I was in my 20's I thought I would've looking at close to 30yrs of marriage by now, but I never did it. A lot of it had to do with me, but then when I figured all that out the dating pool became a muddy puddle. I like kids and I like women so I figured I should have been able to find someone, but so far nada. Right now I'm at that point where it's nice to have someone, but not to be married, there's no reason right now. Plus, I get to go home or stay depending on circumstances, and it is nice to have a sanctuary. I'm not jealous, argumentative, and I'm flexible when it comes to a lot os stuff, but I do like to have time to myself. I just get tired of paying for the sins of those that have gone before me.

[ExPatriatePen]

EPP. You got me thinking now. Cuddle time decreases in many marriages. Why the hell is that? Is it because people let themselves go and they're not attractive anymore?

I can only speak from personal experience. But one of my favorite sayings on that subject is "It's hard to cuddle a cactus"

That goes both ways. When you're at odds with your partner on even the smallest subject, it takes some real maturity to agree to put the differences aside for a few hours / night and celebrate the good things in your relationship.

But thats MHO

Yeah... that lesson is often learned "The hard way" isn't it? I've honestly never fallen "out of love" from an attractiveness standpoint. I still consider each of my ex's 'attractive' (maybe that says more about my original choices). It was the personalities which became unattractive (probably both ways if you asked them).

One thing that sounds 'hokey' but that I totally believe in, is scheduled "date nights". Agree that even if you are in a disagreement, it gets put aside and you celebrate the good in your relationship for the evening. It's not ALWAYS possible. But it's worth the effort.

[Sarcastic]

That's why I always figured that friendship is a requirement for a relationship. Maybe more than anything. I'll never forget a friend of mine refer to his new wife as "ball and chain" and he meant it, not like he was kidding. I think we were talking about going somewhere and he didn't really want to take her. I didn't say anything but thought to myself, why the hell did you marry her. You have to like the person you're with and you have to want to spend time with them.

[canaan]

I'm single for the first time in 26 years. Where do I start? Maybe the Nabisco counter girl's mother? Dating sites? Grocery store? I work from home so that isn't an option. EPP, where do us over 40 people find woman? Someone told me join a yoga class. I recently learned the acronym gilf.

Just grab a girl's ass. If she slaps you she's not interested.

1. grab the booty
2. inhale deeply
3. exhale while saying "breathtaking" much like goldust used to do in the WWF
4. ????
5. Profit

[MRandall25]

"I don't normally do this, but I felt compelled to tell you something. You have an absolutely breath-taking... heiney. I mean, that thing's good. I wanna be friends with it."


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