I'm 50, very ordinary looking, quite boring and a bit frumpy. Married for 30 years. I am slim and physically fit, very active.
DH is terminally ill and needs help for all aspects of personal care. Life is tough atm.
My escape is running, which I do most days, it's pretty much the only time I leave the house. I'm a member of a running club and although club sessions have only just restarted, it was a god send through lockdown because I could always find a "one other" to run with. These people have become very important to me and I'm grateful for them. I'm a decent runner so a lot of my "peer" runners are men.
Anyway, whilst I've always enjoyed being part of a club, until recently I've onyl had a handful of people I'd call friends rather than acquaintances there. Since men people have found out I'll soon be a widow, I'm getting regular messages and invitations from male club members. Nothing untoward, just messages of support asking how were doing, an invitation to the pub as a group, arrange a run, suggesting I join them at a race. On the face of it fine, but it's never happened before. Male acquaintances just seem unusually friendly.
Maybe I'm imagining it (and flattering myself), perhaps it's just everyone's glad to have some social opportunity again, but is it possible they're beginning approaches already? Has anyone else experienced this far too early? TBH even when I was young and single I never had men queuing up!