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it's easier to get shot by a terrorist than it is to find love and get married when you are in your 40's"...
Its has been getting easier and easier year after year ... | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 1/16/2005 7:49:53 PM | geesh....gotta learn to proof read...LOL....But I do prefer younger guys....a few years anyway....LOL
Bouyant? That's a new one.....thanx...I think. *S* | |
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Posted: 1/16/2005 8:03:31 PM | Look at your photo, List of Interests and the description! 
Surprised with the word Buoyant?? | |
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LT157
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| single and forty....
Posted: 1/18/2005 3:19:54 PM | Bayless, first of all shame you aren't closer, very hot. I'm right there with you though in what you wrote, the whole thing. I hope there's more like you close to my area. I actually look for women in your situation. I have kids of my own, one of which lives with me. I find that single women, like single guys, can't take having to work around the kids and everything else you mentioned. I like the companionship part too, but if it's a single woman who never married and has that on her mind, I can't tell her that I'm just looking for companionship...go figure right? | |
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Posted: 1/18/2005 5:28:37 PM | | this is true.every one is single,yet every one has someone.this should be a good way to meet people,but doesn't work immediately like we think it should. i was 40 this past summer and have grown children and a small child.that makes it hard as well.people our age dont want to raise children again... | |
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Posted: 1/18/2005 5:40:20 PM | I posted this in another forum, but this may be a better place for it.
I'll be 40 in about 6 months. But if the pics of the women on this site are anything to go by then woohoo! 40, here I come! Many of you are very, very attractive.
People often tell me I look about 10 years younger which is great because when I'm 80 I'm gonna look like a hot 70 year old! | |
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Posted: 1/18/2005 6:03:24 PM | ^^^Do your tines skew as you age, forked one?
I have been over 40 for five years now. I can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone contemplating an upcoming birthday. One word of advice: remove dentures before blowing out candles. | |
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Posted: 1/18/2005 6:21:39 PM | Thankfully I've managed to keep them nice and straight so far.
I do tend to tarnish a bit more these days, but that's ok, it just means I need a little extra frottage to get me all nice and shiny! No complaints about that. | |
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Posted: 1/19/2005 12:46:13 PM | Fid:
i really don't want to rain on your parade, but there's a good chance that age will catch up with you & you might even look like you're 90 when you're 80. i know - the world is a cruel, cruel place. but if you don't expect to much, then you won't be all that disappointed, right?
btw, i have a fork just like that. & a spoon. knife, too, even. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 1/19/2005 2:31:17 PM | True - I have no expectations, I just feel genetically lucky so far.
re cutlery: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :) | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 1/21/2005 1:10:38 PM | | well, at least temporary flattery. i haven't been on to change it back, till now! | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 1/21/2005 9:52:41 PM | | I think being over 40 to me is just a number, there are days, i wake up feeling in my 30's, have an energy for someone in their 20's and can act as a teenager. I can't wait to find out with my next birthday will make me feel, but all is good with me..so here is me an loving it. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2005 10:00:57 AM | You may be right as Im in the middle east at present ! | |
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Posted: 1/30/2005 9:20:16 PM | | lml4s, you truly have wisdom. Never thought of it that way. "They had a man they loved, now they have an ex they hate". I am 8 years past 40 and most of the women I meet are angry at the world. It even makes them madder that men chase younger women. Maybe they should try losing some of the bitterness. | |
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Posted: 2/1/2005 1:12:48 PM | I spent most of my young life unhappy and just wanting life to move swiftly by. I had a good marriage and all but I held so much of myself back that I think I was only half there. So I came to think of myself as in my thirties when in my late 20's, and "middle aged" by the time I was in my mid-thirties, and all I wanted was to live out the rest of my life quickly and get it over with.
Pretty pathetic, huh?
So in my late 30's the pretense that was my life fell apart and I ended up divorcing and moving on to reclaim the part of me that I had withheld for so long. I guess it should not be much of a surprise that I found myself happy almost to the point of giddiness. Suddenly life was there to live and I wanted nothing more than to go back and reclaim the years I'd lost. But you can't do that; you have to move forward (unless someone out there has a time machine he's not telling me about). So here I am, happy, yes, but in my late 40's and, as the subject of this forum says, single. And what I've discovered, through several very promising relationships, is that people our age come into a relationship with very defined perspectives of what they want. Why not? We've lived nearly half a century; we ought to know what works for us, right?
But I think that a lot of the time our concept of what can bring us joy is idealized rather than realistic. Too many of us still see ourselves as we saw ourselves half a lifetime ago. We don't always see the aging of our own bodies and we certainly don't FEEL 40-something, whatever indeed that means. And, most importantly, too many of us forget that we bring into any new relationship the baggage of a lifetime. We want our partners baggage-free when we ourselves cannot live up to that. So I've dated several men who have, in their own ways, as much baggage as I do, and that's fine by me. They were sweet and gentle and romantic and interesting and I had high hopes for a couple of them, but I was not what they were looking for, I guess.
I don't know that it's so difficult to find someone, as sealacamp say. There are thousands of us out here--just look at these forums, and this is just a single website. What's difficult is reconciling yourself to the fact that your ideal IDEA of a partner is not necessarily your ideal PARTNER. Finding the ideal is indeed difficult; we're talking needles and haystacks here. But I believe that there is something worth seeing in a whole lot of us, if we would only take the time to look for it.
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timoune | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/6/2005 4:15:51 PM | Thanks for all your thoughts on this matter.
Perhaps at 40 or 40ish....we know what we want and we don't want to settle.
Old and set in our ways?
Maybe we should all become terrorists......hahaha | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/6/2005 6:49:48 PM | Very good idea -
So, who is the terrorist, shooting whom and where?
I guess that cute kid in the picture is your daughter. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/6/2005 6:52:21 PM | InTheCanyon - Nice pic... never settle... get what you want... (call me... ;-0 )
~~Dragon Rider~~ | |
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Posted: 2/6/2005 7:03:20 PM | The cute kid in the picture is actually me. Age...mmmm..maybe 8 or 9. The horse is my pal Chief Ouray.
And if WE became terrorists, we could put ourselves out of our own misery...hahahaha | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/6/2005 7:04:18 PM | | Thanks DragonRider....and what shall I "call" you?..... | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/6/2005 7:19:35 PM | Whatever you like..... I always let the lady decide...
~~Dragon Rider~~ | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/6/2005 7:32:09 PM | How about "Quad-City Man"....
I just noticed that you were from Moline. I went to highschool in Rock Island. Alleman. Maybe we crossed paths.....
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/21/2005 5:46:20 PM | "I was watching this movie and not once, but twice, one of the characters said.."ya know, it's easier to get shot by a terrorist than it is to find love and get married when you are in your 40's"...
What do you think?"
It's true if my experience is any yardstick. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 2/27/2005 12:25:52 PM | | my first post! a newbie and I hope this is not true! | |
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