I already feel that way and I'm way younger than you! Just gotta get out of America... Dating is just absurd here.
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yeah, it's been a mess everywhere in the world in the last 12 years
literally every woman i've had dealings with in the last 16 years or so have been fruity as christmas cake... there's something really wrong with the world these days
i'm literally thinking, probably no chance at all but better chance to find a woman in a church at this point, not that i'm thinking "oh yeah that's the place to find them" in as much as i want to go to a church anyway, for various reasons aside from that silly one, but hey, i mean, i think the first commandment in the bible is "go forth and multiply" so, traveling and getting married are two definite requirements
i know a gal who's been looking and it seems like the problem she has is the exact inverse. dudes she meets don't add a lot of value. after late 30s, she's already built a life, house, etc, so it's actually hard to find someone who measures up to that level of success.
one dude just looked at her like a cash machine
the next one liked her a lot but wanted her to do all the traveling to go see him. she likes to travel all over, but he couldn't coordinate a simple trip beyond inviting her to his hometown.
i feel a certain level of freezing into my own routines to the point of it being exclusionary to other people. I still hang out with friends that I met in college, or who are very aligned to my personality.
church does seem like a good place to check in. and hopefully the gal is also seeking and ends up at the same church.
yeah, i think this is low key one of the functions of churches... it's a nice, formal, neutral context where mundane conviviality is eschewed in favour of meditation and reverence, and i think this also is conducive to good contacts between men and women