The Dating Thread - Part 12. How NOT to lose the will to live. Sense of humour essential!

[TimeForMeAndDD]

Good morning everyone! Had to start a new thread as the old one is no longer receiving posts.

Fill yer boots!

Trying to get ready for a date and also pack children's clothes and get them to pack their toys and books etc that they need for a night is a tricky combination to manage. Plus the rain falling will mean my hair will probably look awful anyway

PMSL at loves!!!! Good luck with your morphic field of quantum entanglement.

Adams, I shall get writing.

he he, this witchcraft is serious stuff PostB, I'll be scouring the astral planes and consulting the akashic record for most of this evening

"quantum entanglement"

Way too scientific for me

Post get writing.

I'm thinking of doing one for weight loss too, you never know, it may just work.

I think my luck with my recent dates is down to listening to what my gut was telling me

1. that online dating doesn't work for me and was destroying my confidence

2. that I had enough and needed to look after myself for a while and gain that confidence back

So I removed all my profiles, threw myself into work, kept a FWB or two, and set about looking after myself, losing weight, working on confidence, improving RL social life etc.

Suddenly, men are noticing me a lot more. It's a combination I think of feeling and looking better, holding my head higher, but that feeling has to come from within or it doesn't work. Maybe because I'm no longer bothered about being in a relationship, I'm giving off a certain different vibe

OR

It might be that I wrote a daft list on a piece of paper with 60 things I'm looking and not looking for in a man, asked the cosmos for that man within a year (I did it in September last year) and put it on the windowsill

OR it might be that doing that helped me focus more on what I wanted and how to get it.

I dunno but I'm having the time of my life right now :o

Hmm, I don't go in for all that kind of stuff :)

Sponge, don't write him off yet, he could
be in meetings? Or caught up. Or anything.
Whats up with work? Sounds stressful....

Lubey, or it could just be random luck :)

Why is DS choosing now to explain "chunking" (method of division) to me? Am being very patient but is hard work.

Has stopped raining though :)

Why do men think that just because 'we are looking for the same thing', that they have hit the jackpot. Don't they consider that I might not be attracted to them and their profile, and that just because they want the same as me it does not mean I automatically want to be with them.

many guys dont seem to realise that women are alot more choosy about who they have sex with, they appear to believe (or hope!) that because we are not looking for a serious relationship we will get jiggy with the first bloke who comes along

Their attitude leads me to believe that they may think we are desperate, just because we are on a dating site. Fair game and all that. Tossers

Some men believe that they are gods and we should be on our knees begging them to have sex with us

But you should see the state of them Chaotic, honestly. And so arrogant. Just assuming they will get the goods because they 'want the same things'. I'm going to take some time to seriously rethink my profile!

Advice please of wise mums of the internet dating world? I'm emailing back and forth with a guy on matchaffinity. He only writes 1 or 2 line sentences. All open questions bar this last one. Shall I just give up the ghost? It's saying to me he's not really bothered?

chancers & keyboard hero's Chaotic, dont believe a word of it, they know as well as we do that it's men not women who have to beg for sex :o
just ignore the potatoes:)

Just found my list. It's uncanny as he ticks all my boxes bar 2.

1 was own a boat (Zany got that one) but he owns something equally fun.

2 was to want to get married one day. He might, but not to me .

I ordered for the new year and voila new years day. See it works.

We have been out a couple of times but recently he has been coming over, which us great with me cos it means no need to worry about w baby sitter. He is great. It also means I don't get wet and my hair ruined.

Bucket IME it's best to chuck them one liners back and see if they up their game .

loves I'm ignoring them all atm. We know the truth but, as Time says, some of them are so arrogant they do actually believe they're god.

Adams, owing a boat would be on your requiements list?
Personally I'd be more concerned with an emotional connection, someone who was my best friend, I could trust, who treated me well and fitted well into my life. Owning a boat is a non consideration surely???

And loves, you are so right!!

Time, possibly because they are simple souls unable to consider you might want any thing other than a random penis? The baffoons! :)

My list is so simple, yet so few fill it,
1 me and my little one are a package
2 Understand me and my past
3 accept me for who I am.
4 love me

1. Treat me with love and respect
2. Know my fears
3. Make me tingle, every time. And be a great kidder.
4. Stand by me and be faithful.

SIMPLE.

I should add that being Leonardo dicaprio or usher would give you an advantage. Lol

Yes Watch, it was at the bottom, after the important stuff.

Due to my location owning a yacht is great fun and quite common actually.

Yes, yes. I live by a marina too. But still.
My family have all had boats or several, its still.not q thing that I would even consider to be a need....

My list:

Breathing with a regular pulse

Two eyes that look in the same direction

No plastic knees or hips

Large cock in good working order

Likes his own bed so won't want to sleep in mine

Likes his own house so won't want to move into mine

Hates wedding cake so won't want to get married

Works on an oil rig so only available 2 weeks out of 4.