whittsend is offline whittsend Post #1  February 22,2010, 5:56pm
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I am a young at heart, 50 year old. I have not had much luck with on line dating. I can't figure it out. I've almost come to the point of just forgetting about it. I don't exactly live, in the kind of town, that has lots to offer. I am fairly picky, and have my "must haves", which are not unreasonable. i have a great sense of humor, and have been accused of being a lot of fun I'm in proportion for my height, and I'm above average, in the looks department..so I'm told So..what's my problem? I just can't seem to figure it out!..."HELP"..lol
 
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Hang in there. I, too, live in a very quiet (dull?) area, and there were very, very few available and interesting men in my age range. It takes patience.

I eventually met a wonderful man who lived about two hours away. We're getting married in a matter of weeks. He's 57, I'm 55. It can happen.
 
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comsider adjusting your MH a bit..I know you consider yourself picky-so do I, but we need to deal with reality here, not Disneyland.

In real life, people had different lives that form them and don't necessarily meet every standard we want to set. When I relaxed my MH-not the CS though, I found many more dates to go on..and each date made me more comfortable.

I began dating again 2 years ago, at age 64. I can date as often as I want. Not every man is my ideal guy-I've learned to accept a few warts...thats real life.

Also if you live in a small area, consider opening up your mileage to include the nearest larger town or city and realize you will need to drive to meet dates, at least half way.

Other things I do to meet men is volunteer, join groups where singles are and take male oriented classes at the local community college.

After 2 years of dating and 2 other potential good but eventually not so good relationships, I hope I have found a guy I may have a LTR with...we are in early days yet so it's a wait and see thing.

Just keep trying and loosen up a bit if you really want to date.
 
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Even in rural areas there are also lonely men who are mature enough to know that those of us over 25 can be exactly what they are looking for. It only takes one, the biggest difference is that there are more of us than them so we have to make the first move more often than not, but hey what do we have to lose? If we get lucky we can find that love the second, third or whatever time around can be pretty wonderful.
 
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whittsend wrote :
I am a young at heart, 50 year old. I have not had much luck with on line dating. I can't figure it out. I've almost come to the point of just forgetting about it. I don't exactly live, in the kind of town, that has lots to offer. I am fairly picky, and have my "must haves", which are not unreasonable. i have a great sense of humor, and have been accused of being a lot of fun I'm in proportion for my height, and I'm above average, in the looks department..so I'm told So..what's my problem? I just can't seem to figure it out!..."HELP"..lol
Where do you live? I am 48 and I do much better with guys in person than online. I also live in a major metropolitan area, though.
 
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whittsend wrote :
I am a young at heart, 50 year old. I have not had much luck with on line dating. I can't figure it out. I've almost come to the point of just forgetting about it. I don't exactly live, in the kind of town, that has lots to offer. I am fairly picky, and have my "must haves", which are not unreasonable. i have a great sense of humor, and have been accused of being a lot of fun I'm in proportion for my height, and I'm above average, in the looks department..so I'm told So..what's my problem? I just can't seem to figure it out!..."HELP"..lol
I can't define the problem from what you've posted.

When you say you haven't had luck online, do you mean you aren't getting matches, or you don't like the matches you get, or your matches don't respond to you, or you've met some of them and didn't get along?

Do you have a good profile with nice photos? Be sure to stress that you're in decent shape since so many people these days aren't.
 
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tweet37 is offline tweet37 Post #7  February 25,2010, 12:34pm
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Maybe if you filled out your profile here and added some photos we would have something to go on.
 
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You need to have a gender. Are you female, male on in-between? I'm picky too and about your age. It' not fun, most don't keep in shape.



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I am a young at heart, 50 year old. I have not had much luck with on line dating. I can't figure it out. I've almost come to the point of just forgetting about it. I don't exactly live, in the kind of town, that has lots to offer. I am fairly picky, and have my "must haves", which are not unreasonable. i have a great sense of humor, and have been accused of being a lot of fun I'm in proportion for my height, and I'm above average, in the looks department..so I'm told So..what's my problem? I just can't seem to figure it out!..."HELP"..lol
 
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