"Don’t let those matches in your Closed tab define you as unable to find love, let them be the fuel that propels you forward in your search."
Unfortunately, Eh and the closed tabs, particularly the "I'd rather not say" comments, have done just that. I've never had much perseverance for things I consistently fail at.
Actually, I hold your views suzyque & nanette. I was someone's third try and it was the worst thing I had ever done in my entire life. Those who don't know beware!
It's interesting that Christians tend to be the most judgmental people around yet we are warned not to be. The one thing failures teach me is to be more forgiving of others and that no one escapes life unscathed....no one. Whether I get married again or not remains to be seen, but I have worked on my issues and am a better person for it.
My first marriage almost destroyed me....my mom (who is super pro-marriage) even wanted me to divorce. I will take responsibility for the second failure and have done some serious work on those issues. In any case until you have walked in a person's shoes you better tread lightly.
I read the first paragraph of this article. Ouch. I was checking 'My Matches' earlier and discovered that yet another young woman had closed the match. I don't know where the article's reference to the "distance too great" comment came from. The young ladies never bother to tell me why they are closing the match.
I suppose there are three possibilities.
1. The young woman made an informed decision based on our interactions that the match would go nowhere.
2. I committed some grievous fault in talking to her or in writing my profile.
3. There is something wrong with me that scares the ladies off when they figure it out.
If 1 is the case, I should be happy. After all, who wants to continue in a relationship that's probably doomed?
If 2 is the case, I need to change something about the way I interact with my matches or rework my profile.
If 3 is the case... I guess this article would be for me.
The trouble is, I never know which it is. I would find it much simpler to leave the 'Closed Matches' tab behind me if I knew what the deal breaker was.
my husband died when our son was 30 months old.
It still seems to be a central tenet of his relationship with the world.
dragging past the cancer for the last 2 years and trying to reassure ... –
lada2
What I hate is when i have said "It was nice to meet you." Then I have had the guy jump in and say "You too. I'd like to see you again."
And then I am standing there looking for a way to tell him ... –
legend29
i suspect he is not agonizing over it nearly as much as you are.
i suffer from the stereotypical thinkking that guys are fine with separating feelings from yearnings
Right up until they're not.
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