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Where have all the fit, interesting and available men gone (part 28)

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ninah · 30/12/2010 12:19

lilac where are you????!

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Flame · 06/01/2011 21:43

lol. For someone I've never spoken to before yesterday it flows easily.

lou33 · 06/01/2011 22:18

you smooth talker you

Flame · 06/01/2011 22:21

He's gone poof now. Was enjoying myself!

tookoolforskool · 07/01/2011 11:12

morning.
hatesponge- i think im going to join you in your 'bit of a slump'

Im feeling a bit crap and disheartned by it all really.
Dogman ( who i thought i recognised off POF from a while back) still has a profile on there, which of course, is fine, and is a VIP memeber. But he seems to be on it all day.

Of course, it could be coincidence, but not likely. Its just made me a little bit less enthuastic about our date sunday. I feel like i cant be bothered to go through all the hastle to just not hear back again.

The rest of the men on match are crap. Not one im even half interested in.

I feel like i might just be deluding myself, and the chances of actually getting a relationship from online dating are very very small.

Since i meet the grand total of zero men in my day to day life ( or even month to month life) then i just feel like im going to be single for a long long time.

Plus, im still a bit chubby at a size 14, seems a lot of men dont like this, and then i was thinking last night, how on earth do i think ill have the time to date, i can only see someone every other weekend, small chance of a babysitter during the week.

:(

All just seems highly impossible. Ive wasted £30 on match i could have spent on shoes.

Zanywany · 07/01/2011 11:21

HI can I join your thread. I've been single for several months now and dipping my toe in the dating game - is it too soon to feel disspirited by it all Grin

elastamum · 07/01/2011 13:11

OK FAI ladiee. have taken your advice and invited university man to the 'big do'. He is going to see if he can make arrangments to come along - he has 2 exes to talk to Confused

Anyway, I hope he comes along as it will be fun - but I am gong to book 2 hotel rooms, to ensure I dont do anything I really shouldnt Blush

elastamum · 07/01/2011 13:13

Welcome Zany, come on in, some of us have been here for sometime - but we keep on hoping Grin

Zanywany · 07/01/2011 15:28

I split up from my XP exactly a year ago and briefly got back together with him in the summer (we all make mistakes only I made it twice Grin) so I guess I have been pretty much single for most of the year. I am on POF at the moment, got a lovely message from one guy yesterday just saying 'Hi I have central heatng'

ninah · 07/01/2011 16:27

central heating's w winner Confused

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SmileyMily · 07/01/2011 16:30

Zany, welcome, gotta love that central heating comment Grin

I am not an expert on this since I was only very briefly in the dating game before I met DP in the autumn, albeit we met on GSM.

Tookool, really hard one, is it worth the hassle of getting out there and dating? The experience on this thread is so varied, there is surely no 'right' answer. I found it very disheartening when I was online because very few of the men I liked the look of bothered their arses to reply. The FIA laydees advised growing a thick skin, easier said than done but spot on. Also, I tried to focus on enjoying myself and not investing too much in the early stages. I was incredibly lucky that TLM turned out the way he did......

Elasta, yay for University man invite and Wink on the 2 hotel rooms, connecting doors by any chance.......

Flame · 07/01/2011 17:09

Lol @ wasting good shoe money :o (sorry - twas the imagery not the situation)

Sod all joy on POF atm - my people have all fizzled out. The mate I put on the other day is doing amazingly though Envy

Been talking to Matt on fb lots this morning but he's not been back since lunch. If he pops up before I go out tonight I might invite him to the pub.

Flame · 07/01/2011 17:12

She is stunning though so will let her off Wink

aurorastargazer · 07/01/2011 19:03

evening all.Smile

aurorastargazer · 07/01/2011 19:19

best go get somet tea i think Smile

lou33 · 07/01/2011 19:27

evening ladies, how is everyone?

aurorastargazer · 07/01/2011 21:25

they've gone i think lou!

aurorastargazer · 07/01/2011 21:43

vimes is at work til 12 - boooo Grin i'm wide awake GrinGrinGrin

lou33 · 07/01/2011 21:52

me too, am bored

MrsS01 · 07/01/2011 21:52

hello everyone, been a long time since I've been on here. But back single again :(

hope everyone's okay.

ninah · 07/01/2011 22:19

MrsSO1 did you have another name? welcome back, anyway Smile

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ninah · 07/01/2011 22:23

single gets a bad press imo. hence 'I hate my husband but I can't face being a single mother'
whisper .. it is actually OK! no sad faces Smile

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MrsS01 · 07/01/2011 23:02

Ninah - yes think I was SingleMum01. Anyway I'm okay about being single and back in the dating game. Bit p'd over the bloke who's dumped me, but hey ho, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again!

got 2 dates set for next week ;)

ninah · 07/01/2011 23:03

oh hi! yes I remember, good to see you
and I read a bit about your chap on pc's thread
'Separated' men, well, I feel your pain Sad more baggage than Heathrow

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MrsS01 · 07/01/2011 23:08

yes I know! I knew myself but just ignored it. Never mind at least he made me make a break from the previous chap who wasn't right for me either!

ninah · 07/01/2011 23:16

well, you've been out there! am personally sinking into relatively contented spinsterdom
the older I get the less tolerant I become I'm afraid
your comments about ex trying to slot you into family life rang true for me too only i ususpect mine was quite an unimaginative chap who, rather than having suffered a life time passion, had tried to slot his wife into same pigeonhole too
he was the physical type lou has described on here as a no go for her, short and round with fat fingers!

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