| single and forty....
Posted: 10/21/2006 5:50:12 AM | | Well being 41 soon 42 myself.. single and never been married and have no kids... you would think that the lack of baggage would help me not hinder me... I have dated younger...alot younger but maturity is something I am finding not all that easy to find... I do not mean you have to be stodgy.... trust me I have tons of fun.. I was at Ground zero Goth/bondage a go go bar just thurs night.... Yet the older ones are not on the same page as me often... I like many kinds of music and yes I wanted to go to the nickelback concert... would I be a little out of place yes for my age.... One guy I date was not what many would call hot but he had one heck of a cute smile and eyes.... he was younger but respectful and mature, yet still fun to spend time with and now is a history major in college.... I call it a CHeeky smile.... | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 10/30/2006 7:50:59 AM | | I just can't believe that. All my past relationships are as loved and lost. Each one of my past relationships cherished for what they were. Love happens anywhere and anytime until you get it right. You can love anyone but it doesn't mean that it's right for you. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 10/30/2006 11:37:42 AM | | Single and forty - a tricky place to be, and I don't see it changing. I think if I was here by choice I would feel differently about it. This is not where I was supposed to be - hindsight vision is always more clear. Single and forty - not fun, single and thirty, single and twenty definitely fun. Maybe I'm just way too serious in my old age. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 10/30/2006 3:33:39 PM | Single and 35, not been married either. 5 more years, and I guess I'll have beat the odds. 
No seriously, folks I don't believe the odds stated at the beginning of this thread.
Many people devote their whole lives to career and education and never get married. Strangely, it seems to be becoming more common place now than it was before. Although I'd love to get married and have children, that's about the only thing luck hasn't given me. Maybe luck desires me to be single! I'm able to observe from the outside looking in if I am not part of the crowd. That can be sometimes a good thing.
Don't let your singleness get you down. Perspective from this viewpoint can be quite rare and a good thing to have. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 10/30/2006 9:03:16 PM | I just read an update to an article written in Newsweek I think (the link is somewhere on M S nbc's site) that the chance of marrying after the age of 40 is 40%.
Way up from what it used to be....some 20 yrs ago. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/1/2006 6:10:44 PM | Here is the link to the census bureau's data on men women ratios by age. Good news for men over 30 ... not so good for women over 30.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-544.pdf | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/1/2006 7:32:42 PM | | Well im 31 and I know some 40 yr young woman that look good.Theres life after 40 .Just from what I know hopefully when im 40 there is some hot 40 woman waiting 4 me | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/2/2006 5:20:39 AM | | Im single at 48 and diggin it :) .....having the Time of my life. Divorced for almost 20 years wouldnt change a thing ... | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/2/2006 6:03:14 AM | I'M 50....AND HAVING FUN!!!
SO, THERE'S SOME DESCENT LOOKING
50 YEAR OLDS TOO!!! ~~ LOL : )
SO DON'T ANYONE GIVE UP!!!
Hey MrOctober!!! : )~ | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/7/2006 2:28:27 PM | Funny her profile says she's 45!
Single and 40 well it's not the way I planed things but I like the taste of the lemonade I'm making.
Don't mind the single part at all it's the endless dating that drives me nuts, it's getting harder to remember everyone’s names and should I even try.
I only need one, just one that's all. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/7/2006 5:27:03 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?" -- inthecanyon(d323651)
I think you should quit watching Sleepless in Seattle, if you're going to start taking dating advice from Hollywood... lol. That's where that movie quote is from, right?
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Thank you for stealing my thunder and beating me to the point. Yes! You are right. This STORY is from hollywood and is FICTION. Hollwood is where men fly and women don't have PMS.
This urban myth is in the same camp as the idea that the men miss the regular sex after the divorce but don't miss the regular contact with the kids. Boy have I got nows for you.
Now. to a final point about this ridiculous urban myth. I don't know if Sleepless in Seattle came first but TIME magazine, in the mid eighties took a group of 20 owmen age 40 - 45 who were on the groan about being more likely to be killed by terrorisits than get married and conducted a two page moan session. No useful information.
A couple of years ago they did something that ALL mags should do my most rarely do. they did a follow up. They dug up the 16 of these women that they could find and re interviewed them.
NOW of that 16
1/ Have of them were not single but divorced before the original moan session.
2/ Since the moan session none of them had been killed, or injured, by terrorists, and none of them had even been withing ten miles of any terrorist activity.
3/ 14 had gotten married but half of them had divorced again
This is the reality. The women who moan about man shortages are only short on mena becasue they are alway on the moan moan moan.. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/7/2006 11:25:51 PM | well..it would depend on the individual and the perceptions that the individual possesses
regarding their age...Age is just a "number"...it is a tag, from our culture..you are as old as you think you are, is what i am getting at...Love doesn't discriminate and demand a particular age with it...There are scores of people who either get married for the first time in their forties or, re-marry in there forties, fifties or even in their sixties etc...
I am in my forties and have no problems dating and I just met someone where there is "potential" love to evolve...
Hollywood is fiction, not fact..to let a movie tell you how things are or should be, is
ridiculous...maybe pick some books, instead of the remote for the boob tube...and you might just find you can shake this neuroses that has developed via Hollywood and all of its BS...
what ever folks...get some gratitude and less attitude...and you will be a little more youthful and greatful for your age...I love being in my forties,,,didn"t someone once say..
"Life doesn't start until your 40"...food for thought... | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/10/2006 3:48:52 AM | | Tis not easy finding a true freindship after 40,some do not know what they want and some are scared ,some want to just play games and get revenge on those whom are innocent,its not like were 20 again,were all grown up now like our parents,but at least they knew what they wanted and had, | |
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xodara
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/14/2006 10:46:35 AM | | hay yer it may be true,but if it was true,we all would stay in doors lol.take life as it comes thats wat i think | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/17/2006 12:23:42 AM | | I think it's great. My kids are grown and have moved out and for the first time in 22 yrs I only have myself to worry about. If I want to go out on a date with someone 10 yrs younger I do with out my kids having a fit. If I want to stay home for 2 weekends in a row I do and no one questions it. If i want to eat honeycombs for supper I do. I'm sure in time it will get old but for now I'm just enjoying myself. | |
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avamor
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/17/2006 5:23:20 AM | | Well, I'm forty-seven and enjoying being single and going out with friends, but it would be nice to have a steady girlfriend. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/17/2006 9:32:24 PM | | I would just about agree with him 99% totally, my life is getting really boring and sucky anymore. | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/18/2006 3:02:30 PM | Cheers to you Fifi47.. good comment...
Why?...because we sit and watch the bad girls.. smirk... and say... been there done that! As my father used to say .. be careful of the quiet ones they are the deadliest ones... | |
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| single and forty....
Posted: 11/18/2006 4:35:25 PM | "Well, I'm forty-seven and enjoying being single and going out with friends, but it would be nice to have a steady girlfriend."
I hear ya. It would be nice just to have someone to go do things with as a couple once in a while. I didn't want to be single at this age, but there are worse things so I can take solace in that. | |
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