| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 5/6/2009 4:51:50 AM | Not sure what you mean by older - sometimes one gets blessed with good genetics and other things. I routinely get mistaken for 10-15 years younger, but this response pretty much sums up why I have given up:
" don't know if you'd call it ''giving up''....maybe it is.......i'm just so tired of all the seemingly pre-scripted games.................."
Sometimes enough is just "enough". I've moved on to other things and come here for the forums while I have my morning green tea. As far as giving up, as I said I've moved on to other pursuits. Someone would really have to wow me for me to change my mind, and I just don't forsee that happening. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 5/6/2009 6:12:58 AM | Unfortunately (for me), I am at the place that Moraima describes......"I am realize the chances of meeting someone for a relationship at this point in life is slim...." | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 5:12:56 AM | not me -- going great every day -- push myself working hard with my bod to stay fit (and manage my properties) and luving it
painting, landscaping, roofing, digging, cementing, rock work, mowing, you name it
andI don;t have to but I do
wake every day tired and sore from the previous day and go right back at it
better than Balley's
not sure girls on this site can keep up -- they seem timid
BUT I am still here and at it every day | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 6:02:54 AM | easy2like said:not sure girls on this site can keep up -- they seem timid
You will find her easy so just keeping on plugging and sooner or later you will hit gold.
Happy hunting
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 7:29:24 AM | | the more i read threads here in The 45 forums the more I realize There isa golden opportunity for a damaged goods repair shop. If you get my drift. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 10:05:39 AM | artz, you need a partner? There's money in them thar hills!
I can see it now...two roaring lions, Hey, maybe that could be the name of our shop?
I haven't given up, it's just the knowledge I've gained from dating and one LTR that scares me! Couple that with some things you read in the forums...well, "get my drift?" | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 12:49:45 PM | | Artz 'n Rick - I dibbs the third spot, to provide equal opportunity repairs. And don't forget the big money will be in our book! My experiences haven't left scars, but have instead left me shaking my head in wonder, or laughing hysterically. It's a strange, weird, wonderful world! | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 1:29:22 PM | Elle Kaye, first, only if you clean that bird poop off your shoulder 
Second, I'll have to confer with my potential business partner Artz.......but I'm quite sure the name would have to change from "Two Roaring Lions" to "Two Roaring Lions and one **** cat"....OK ? and also equal benefits!  | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 3:35:57 PM | rick - no existing bird poop problems. The white guy on my shoulder isn't mine. He was just a party animal I picked up on the pier in Key West during a Sundown Ceremony. Then, Poof! He flew out of my life.
The shop's name still needs work, benefits tbd.
But it would be a great, great book! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 3:58:51 PM | "Have all the really older guys given up?"
HEY ..... who you calling really older?
Okay okay I know I know .... I fit this.
After 40+ years of ... pretty much always having a female in my life (two long-ish marriages and gfs before that) .....I figured will - I know how to do this (find a girlfriend).
I tried (kind of sort of) for three years and ...... just stopped.
Call me "Shallow Ron" all you want to. She would need to made me go ...... "yeah - I want her for a girlfriend."
Since I seldom even leave the house these days (I know - I know) I really don't see *them in real life and - on the net they all seem to live on the moon or 1000 miles away.
If I don't think "oh my" while gawking at a female .... what is the point.
She would need to look nice to me (to me not some magazine). She would need to be a good person to all - not just me.
I am not sure if I have given up or .... accepted the reality of getting older. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/20/2009 4:35:00 PM | I just finished reading a thread from a 25 year old that sounds like she can't get dates. Young, intelligent, beautiful, and athletic. I think that people go through their ups and downs, high and lows, and that is the way life is. It doesn't matter if you are 25 or 75, enjoy your life the best you can and hopefully you can find someone to share some of it with you.
If you have a totally negative attitude toward the opposite sex and expect them to prove themselves, forget it, you won't date. I agree I have read one too many negative threads about men on here lately. I perhaps am not understanding why some women and men are on a dating site if all they want to do is knock the other sex. Not that they are trying to date people on here, it is just that their negativity has to filter into their daily lives and their reactions with people irl. What a miserable life they must live. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 5:45:54 AM | | I've just got done cruising all the responses to this question & I'm a bit taken aback by them.No body ever said life was perfect.I've had my share of bum deals with the opposite sex but instead of looking at them with disdain I figure that with each episode that's one less bad experiance I have to deal with and leave it at that.The bottom line is"nothing good comes for free".With a certain degree of patience the "exception" rather than the "rule" will come my way. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 1:35:47 PM | | Hello all I work at a bar and I am single .My wife died in 2000 and I have gone out on a fu dates but its hard for a older man to get a date from what I have seen. The women in there 20s to 30s are looking for guy there age.and dont want any thing to do with guys that are a round there 50s exp be friends. The women that are my age all seem to want guys in there 30s or younger. So a guy dose't give up he just dont try as hard because you are going to get turned down more often. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 3:32:15 PM | I'm at a loss ~~ *where* are all these selfish, inflexible, invisible men ya'll are meeting and not meeting?
In my ten months on PoF before meeting The Prince, I corresponded with a couple of dozen guys, met a handful, and only two were what could remotely be called *losers* (one sociopath, and one horndog). The rest were sweet, bright, funny, tender, interesting men. Nope. Didn't work out as a relationship, but that doesn't change who they are. . . . They've mostly been in their 60's or late fifties. A couple, early seventies. And with the exceptions (see above) excluded, all could easily have been a good mate.
There are ton of great men here on the forums (with an occasional lemon), but most would fit the above description.
That said, I think I've worked reasonably hard, also, to make the meetings, greetings, and friendships happen. So: how much work are we putting into our profile, and how often? How far are we willing to travel to meet an unknown? How willing are we to change our residence? How we spend our spare time? How much do we *really want* to share with another?
We're here. They're here. Let's make it happen peeps!
(Where's that cheerleader/megaphone icon when you need it?!)
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 3:37:02 PM | | really as you age , it becomes much harder to meet single ladies , i spend a lot of time at work..dont date co-workers! i'm 5 days a week in the gym, those ladies are to young ! lol and i luv golfing..dont meet anyone there ..really you just have to be out there..where ever that is ! lol good luck ! | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 4:51:15 PM | | Funny how so many women can tell you what men are thinking. No men never give up wanting the company of a woman, they just give up trying to get it. At some point it becomes clear your never going to meet anyones wish list, so why even look. By your standards I'm still young, but if things continue to move in the same way as they are now I am sure that when I reach my late 60 to early 70 I'll have found much better things to do than being rejected for not being Mr perfect. For men it is much easier to just have fun with male friends because they don't demand that you be the greatest thing since sliced bread. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 4:53:38 PM | | One problem I have on here is most of the women are too far away . I have had a fu message me but driving a 100 or more miles to meet someone that you dont know if you will click or not. I have been told sometimes you just have to go for it .But going a 100 to 150 miles or more to meet for dinner or a chat over a fu drinks is hard to do . | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/21/2009 5:05:36 PM | | On a second note some one said about younger women calling older men gramps .Been there a lot of times like I said I work at a bar one that comes to mind is this 24 or so year old women was complaining about she couldnt get any one to dance with her .So I told her I would dance with her if she wanted .I was nice about asking her told her I wanted to dance too but couldnt find anyone .She said not with you gramps besides you dont have your cane with you and they dont have a oxz tank for youhere .Will I thought you little smartass b@#$H I told her bend over and grab your ankles I show you a F#$%$#g cane. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/22/2009 8:39:22 AM | I'm ready to have some fun too, Shirley
But most men my age are chasing younger women.
Which is fine by me....
But perhaps they should give some of us older ladies a try???  | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/22/2009 10:23:24 AM | i've been called gramps before, and i don't like it. hell, i'am just 52. the youngers don't think that one day they too will be older.  | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/22/2009 11:35:57 AM | | Who changed the date on my profile? Oh, that's right; my birthday was yesterday. No more "9". I wouldn't want to be any younger. I've already lived the thirties, forties and fifties. Not interested in going back. Today, I think I'm a bit smarter then I was yesterday. I've been researching other places to live. Puerto Rico has been on my screen for the past couple hours. Sandy beaches, temps between 75-85 degrees year round. Lower cost of living. Margaritas (sp) for breakfast every morning. Much easier going life style. Social security in two more years. Not giving up here. Just expanded my search. Maybe I'll quit the law and teach for a living. That would be refreshing. | |
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/22/2009 12:14:15 PM | OMG ron9...giving up at 62! Haven't you heard the 60 is the new 40? LOL.
If I hadn't found my fishie and all other things being equal, I'd definately being messaging you! 
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| Have all the really older guys given up?
Posted: 6/25/2009 2:39:17 AM | Hey have you seen some of the demads by 50+ women??
must be slim and athletic
look good in jeans and in suit
like the outdoors
like travel
candle lit dinners
- finacially secure - non smoker - non drinker - bushwalking - walk on beack on moonlit lit nites ets etc etc - that will go down well with some 50+ bloke who after working for 30+ years raised a family etc had the wife walk out for some stupid reason thinking that the grass is greener elsewhere
Every single man has female friends for company sex etc without the hasles
No they have not given up they are living their lives - Man are natural loners
They are just not interested | |
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Msg: 175 | |
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