nitram17 wrote:

Co1 wrote:

Keep the faith mate, there is one out there for all of us. I found love in a fish and chip shop, so you might be surprised.

Statistically most folk meet either at work or through friends.so if you dont work and have no friends i think your Bug***d...If you really want to find s partner you will if you put the effort in ..good luck!

sadly for me there are not many babes at work, One is very friendly and i was very, very tempted to pass my number on to her, but i had a feeling that she may have just been friendly, and may have dropped been friendly like a rock. Plus i am not sure she is single too, and she is polish so its tricky to find things out, as you have the language barrier there. I may still push the idea again, if i see her in the new factory.

Also when i was working in a supermarket, the lasses were just not interested in me at all,
I have tried online for years, met a few and dated for a while, but nothing seems to go any further than a few months. The last one i met just before xmas, blew me out. Filling me with false hope of meeting again, and then making excuses to the point she just went quiet on me. So left it. Back to the drawing board again. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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Bluest wrote:

Get yourself on an on line dating site. I know 2 separate happy couples that met that way. There’s a chap I work with who has no redeeming features, yet he is always going on dates with women he met through dating sites. If it works for him it’ll work for anyone.

22900013A wrote:

Bluest wrote:

Get yourself on an on line dating site. I know 2 separate happy couples that met that way. There’s a chap I work with who has no redeeming features, yet he is always going on dates with women he met through dating sites. If it works for him it’ll work for anyone.

I've tried on and off. Barely got a message, nevermind a date. Well, I had one...but that was it.

22900013A wrote:

Statistically after 30 it's pretty much an impossibility. There are exceptions but it's very rare.

davidblythe wrote:

being kind, both my son and nephew found their partners online and i know many more outside the family who have done the same

now the nephew was 30, chunky and a slaphead, so if he can find a girl, you maybe need to apply a bit of spit and polish to the brightwork

maybe ask a women to go over the ad and point out where it is too landy focused and needs to be more female orientated

good luck

Human beings are a funny lot.for every bloke sitting in te house contemplating a life alone there is a woman doing the same !Women have it harder im afraid with societal pressure to have children and the biological clock are like the pendulum from the pit and the pendulum movie when they are in their thirties...... In short there is a woman out there who is capable and willing to pass you the right spanner so get out there and find her because she is looking for you, create the opportunity yourself(book club, night classes rambling clubs and online dating and the like ) and repeat as its all about opportunity and frequency.and most of all say to the rejection (their loss)and move on to the next.

There is some truth to the old joke that women are very very picky when they are young dumping someone for now wearing the right shoes or tie and in their late twenties they must have the right job and income and be kind and handsome but by the mid thirties all that goes and as Jackie Wilson said better than i can write it ....they would will marry a chair to get of the shelf.

Good luck and good hunting and if you go out into the woods enough times you may find a huntress who has you in their sights.

22900013A wrote:

Statistically after 30 it's pretty much an impossibility. There are exceptions but it's very rare.

Ooh, I wouldn’t say that. What I can offer is that statistically where I live (the French Alps) seems to have a disproportionate number of expats who arrive mid-life and after a marriage/relationship break up, so there are definitely people in later life ‘out there’. I’m late 40’s and in my group of friends, (and I’m not making this up), at least 10 couples met in their late 30’s or even 40’s. Those are the couples I can be bothered quickly counting on a very early Sunday morning. But overall the number of couples in our group who are late comers or second time arounders, vastly outnumber the ‘been together forever’ group. Could be ten times as many, no exaggeration. What might be a problem is ‘where’ you are in your 30’s as most of these met mid-to-late 30’s. Perhaps early 30’s is falling in between where you’re not of the right age for first timers, a little too old, but also for second timers, a little too young? Stay positive, keep looking, it’ll happen.

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22900013A wrote:

I never did get married,no kids...been single 5 1/2 years now and just turned 40.So I guess I can kiss those dreams goodbye.
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Well Dan, I've been through two long marriages.

The two worst financial decisions I ever made!

My advice is to try very hard to be "happily single". There are blessings in being single, as well as down-sides. Always appear upbeat, even when you don't feel it. No-one likes a misery.

A friend of mine found a woman by joining a local rambling group, so there are different things you can try apart from dating sites.


If ex's qualify for this thread, on the extreme left is one of them, pictured near Oslo.


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(Hmm, I might try that idea of standing outside Waitrose - because Haverhill Sainsburys hasn't been very productive! )

Sulisuli wrote:

Get yourself a husky puppy, stand outside your nearest Waitrose entrance and wait for the ladies to come and admire your puppy, puppies always tend to attract ladies and Waitrose clientele tend to be better off financially and the average age of the female shopper is 43. Obviously not all will be single
If after 6 months you haven’t had any success trade the puppy in for a younger model as they are at their cutest upto 6 months old.
Please take this post in the humour it is meant and remember a puppy is for life unlike a female partner

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Luckily got a very nice wife but I have to say I have more photos of my Labrador Puppy than my wife (as she really does not like having her photo taken).

So here’s the deal, I can supply a cute loveable Labrador puppy for a few quid on hire. Sulisuli is correct that they are a magnet to the ladies (and blokes as well come to that!)

Here’s the small print. Cassie has teeth like needles. I, my wife and Black Labrador Meg have the wounds to prove it. Don’t leave anything on the floor. It will either be destroyed or you will be taken on a 30 minute chase around the garden to retrieve it. She poo’s a lot. She wee’s a lot. She sleeps a lot. In fact she eats, sleeps, poo’s, wee’s and destroys things. That’s just about her life. Sadly she usually disgraces herself by pooing at the wrong times. Just as you try wooing your female admirer. Great chat up lines are ruined grabbing for the poop bag. I can supply these at extra cost

So puppy for hire. Limited deal only (because they grow up fast). You can ask, but you won’t be able to afford her. Can’t see my wife letting her go for any amount of money

As Suli says, don’t buy a Pup. It has done nothing but limit our social life not improve it.