Breton, I was reading your psots here and it occurs to me that you and I doing the same thing. We are trying to plan for things that haven't even happened.
In your case, you are trying to decide now when to give up. When to start dating. I don't think this is something that you can decide. It's not like you can say on Oct 25th, I'm going to give up and go on dates. I think at somepoint you will meet soemone and then have to decide which direction to go. That could be tomorrow, that could be in Oct., that could be 2 years form now.
In my case I am sitting here trying to plan out every discussion and how to handle things like selling my house and dealing with out debt. However, it occurs to me that my W has not asked me to do this at all. So why am I wasting my energy on it before it come up. When it comes up, I will have to deal with it. Not before.
M35 W37 S9 D6 M12 yrs Know 15 yrs Bomb 1/28/07 My Sitch Failure is the opportunity to start again more intelligently - Henry Ford