Match.com (Volume 6)

[Morningside]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Morningside said:

Thanks. Well what a strange life I lead where you find someone that without you both knowing it wanted more than friendship.

Congrats. Are you going to tell the story?

Thanks She had been in a relationship for quite a while with someone else but we started talking as friends about a year back and found we had more in common than we thought. She stayed with him until a few weeks back and realised it was going nowhere.

Then out of the blue she said "If I leave xxxx would you be interested in a friendship?". This took me back a bit but as as we talked more and more we found we were getting closer. Taking it all very, very slowly and respecting each others space etc. Maybe more will become of it or not but we seem happy in each others company.

As I lost my wife over a year ago it is a strange experience for me as well.

Edited by Morningside on Monday 23 May 14:08

[xjay1337]

Shnozz said:

Interesting article here and a lot rings true IMO.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-missing-ingr...

Do you think?

Some of the wording in the article can be taken as demeaning towards men, and they seem like self entitled stuck up bhes, the type who all speak like they had an Oxford Education but enjoy getting fingered in a night club on a Saturday night.

Maybe those women are all single because they're so intolerably up themselves there's no room for anyone else to get "up it" either.
They can wait for Paco Rabane to come and rescue them.

[pincher]

Morningside said:

Thanks She had been in a relationship for quite a while with someone else but we started talking as friends about a year back and found we had more in common than we thought. She stayed with him until a few weeks back and realised it was going nowhere.

Then out of the blue she said "If I leave xxxx would you be interested in a friendship?". This took me back a bit but as as we talked more and more we found we were getting closer. Taking it all very, very slowly and respecting each others space etc. Maybe more will become of it or not but we seem happy in each others company.

As I lost my wife over a year ago it is a strange experience for me as well.

Edited by Morningside on Monday 23 May 14:08

I can relate to this completely. Good luck Morningside, I wish you every happiness.

[Morningside]

Thank you.

[Shnozz]

xjay1337 said:

Shnozz said:

Interesting article here and a lot rings true IMO.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-missing-ingr...

Do you think?

Some of the wording in the article can be taken as demeaning towards men, and they seem like self entitled stuck up bhes, the type who all speak like they had an Oxford Education but enjoy getting fingered in a night club on a Saturday night.

Maybe those women are all single because they're so intolerably up themselves there's no room for anyone else to get "up it" either.
They can wait for Paco Rabane to come and rescue them.

Yep, exactly (and tonker with a not dissimilar view). Disillusioned to the extreme. And when I say "rings true" I mean insofar as the viewpoint adopted by these sort of women.

The only point I would take issue with is that at 35 its not just the dregs or players left, but I have an honour to defend here.

[Blown2CV]

Morningside said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Morningside said:

Thanks. Well what a strange life I lead where you find someone that without you both knowing it wanted more than friendship.

Congrats. Are you going to tell the story?

Thanks She had been in a relationship for quite a while with someone else but we started talking as friends about a year back and found we had more in common than we thought. She stayed with him until a few weeks back and realised it was going nowhere.

Then out of the blue she said "If I leave xxxx would you be interested in a friendship?". This took me back a bit but as as we talked more and more we found we were getting closer. Taking it all very, very slowly and respecting each others space etc. Maybe more will become of it or not but we seem happy in each others company.

As I lost my wife over a year ago it is a strange experience for me as well.

Edited by Morningside on Monday 23 May 14:08

[xjay1337]

Morningside said:

Thank you.

Good luck mate.

I hope it pans out well for you both.

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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100% agree, the reality is that 20% of men are having 80% of the sex. These top 20% Alpha guys are smashing their way through all of these 6-7/10 girls until the girls hit 30-35 and the cock carousel comes to an end for them. They then either become Alpha widows and end up pump and dump fodder for lower and lower quality guys or end up marrying a Beta, the sort of guy they would not have looked at twice when they were in their party 20s.

Yes I know I am bitter and twisted and this isn't at all like reality.

[shirt]

Ok so we know why joey's single!

[bayleaf]

Joey Deacon said:

anonymous said:

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100% agree, the reality is that 20% of men are having 80% of the sex. These top 20% Alpha guys are smashing their way through all of these 6-7/10 girls until the girls hit 30-35 and the cock carousel comes to an end for them. They then either become Alpha widows and end up pump and dump fodder for lower and lower quality guys or end up marrying a Beta, the sort of guy they would not have looked at twice when they were in their party 20s.

Yes I know I am bitter and twisted and this isn't at all like reality.

what planet are you two on? There's nothing new going on here, no cock carousels etc just some single women who are probably too busy with their careers to care about second dates. Their body clocks will kick in at some point and make them care and that'll be that. The phrases you come out with make you sound like Stifler.

[Jagmanv12]

anonymous said:

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It's not just the 20-30 age group who are disillusioned. The 35-45 group of women is full of "unicorn hunters".

[Dromedary66]

Shnozz said:

Interesting article here and a lot rings true IMO.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-missing-ingr...

5/10, 6/10, 5/10, 5,10, 4/10, 7/10

Edited by Dromedary66 on Tuesday 24th May 14:20

[xjay1337]

^ nail head.

[Flip Martian]

They came across as pretty odious people. I don't suppose for one second they might consider the fact that they've been single so long might be down to their godawful personalities.

[pushthebutton]

Dromedary66 said:

5/10, 6/10, 5/10, 5,10, 4/10, 7/10

Edited by Dromedary66 on Tuesday 24th May 14:20

A picture speaks a thousand words.

Well played.

[Gretchen]

anonymous said:

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This is so true in my opinion also. In my widened years ive become really rather cynical.

Relationship wise I also believe that they can't be alone for more than the proverbial five minutes. It's often not even the other person they want to be with. It's just they don't want to be by their self.

Slightly off topic my middle (very straight and serious) son has been with his girlfriend for seven months now. They had dinner here together at the weekend. She's very pretty, quiet/shy and as grown up snd serious/sensible as he. The way he speaks of the relationship is that they will go to university, have their careers, marry and perhaps have children but not until they're comfortable and possibly in their 30s. He is 15 shortly. I almost hope true and long lasting love still exists.

[blindswelledrat]

anonymous said:

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Most succinct distinction of the 'no good men out there' women I have read, I think.

[mjb1]

anonymous said:

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This is spot on. Also note that they are perpetual first daters - they meet a perfectly good bloke, that they can't fault, but they still keep unicorn hunting 'because there's probably someone even better out there' somewhere. It's not even the 6+ out of 10 girls either. I know women that aren't even that, but still expect a younger, hotter George Clooney type to come and sweep them off their feet (and at the same time they're militant feminists, who claim to despise being pursued by a man). What's really scary is that when the body clock kicks in, quite a few of them decide to become single parents via sperm donation (or one night stands).

I've got young kids, so I meet a lot of parents of similar age kids, and the single parent women also have unrealistically high standards, expecting to meet a perfect bloke (especially no divorcees with their own kids) to take on their ready made family.

[Gretchen]

anonymous said:

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Old and fat. HTH.

[CaptainSlow]

blindswelledrat said:

anonymous said:

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Most succinct distinction of the 'no good men out there' women I have read, I think.

Quite, but they make good player fodder though.