And for the life of me, I can't imagine marrying, much less dating someone much younger. I don't want to have a household someday filled with young kids or teenagers unless they're my grandchildren.
Yeah neither do I. My GF already has a daughter and doesn't want more children. That's definitely a subject that came up early on and we're on the same page.
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What I've heard from most people is that there are a LOT of single women between 50 and 65 but most of them are screwed up. Really screwed up.
Personally I encountered the opposite of that. The women my age that I interacted with through online dating definitely had their stuff together. Many were intelligent, well-employed and living in nice areas. The problem wasn't that they were screwed up, it's that they were very cautious about meeting. They just wanted to text. Many of them had come out of bad relationships and wanted to "take it slow and be friends first" (I heard that so many times). But personally I learned early on that one face-to-face meeting tells you more than a thousand texts. I let myself get drawn into some "text relationships" where we opened up to each other and shared hopes and dreams and such only to meet and find out there was zero spark. After that happened a few times I would exchange a few messages and then suggest we meet for lunch or dinner somewhere public. This was where the age problem came up because few women my age would meet early on even after I explained my reasons, they wanted to just text. The younger women were perfectly fine with it though.
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Also, and maybe you don't want to be 100% public about it, but I'd appreciate having a one-on-one dialogue with you about dating. What do you think?
I'm happy to answer whatever questions you have, I've always been very open here about my experiences with the end of my M, the S and D, and the years since then including my dating activities and ongoing interactions with my XW. There's 10 years of my life documented here that's not anywhere else!
