Mid 30's women and the desert that is dating at that age.

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It seems to be a difficult age,

1. not many single men about, the decent ones are married, the ones that are left tend to be single for a reason
2. recently seperated/ divorced men seem to want to play the field and tend to be very bitter and/ or just want to shag around
3. when they are ready for something serious they look a lot younger ( as experienced at work this week, when a portly 43 year old man asked out a hot 24 year old woman who has just started working there, im the next youngest, single person to him, but i was totally over looked)

Bit of an observation, just wondering if anyone had thought the same, or experienced the same.

And I've looked back and can't see a single thing I've said where I've goaded or belittled the OP. Other people have, maybe, as her views on laughing at a co-worker with a crush on a woman he didn't stand a chance with seemed unpleasant. But I didn't say anything to insult her apart from assuming she worked in an office (as I didn't realise it was Snail, who has said she works in a shop) and saying she might not be the blokes type.

If I'm banned for simply posting a dissenting opinion on a thread, when I didn't know who the poster was, and I didn't insult or goad them, then so be it. Shame though

Bant, I agree with cheese here. I think you suspected from the offset who the OP might be and so you started posting in an argumentative fashion from the offset. I would call it goading, you tell me you wouldn't, you were merely defending your posts.

I am pissed off because I genuinely answered this thread trying to help the OP. I thought it was very weird that people started piling in considering there was nothing particularly inflammatory about her opening post nor the ones that followed.

It is obvious what was going on now, and I wish in the future people would just report these posters early on and save me and so many others the bother of taking the time to answer.

Bant - if you arent troll hunting, then why on earth are you discussing this banned poster on another OP's thread? While trying to point out that its this poster who you have made an assumption on?

Shame for the OP who has had her thread ruined by people with over active imaginations.

I expect this thread will vanish soon anyway which can only be a good thing.

I was very lucky to meet my DH when I was 31 and he was 40. We got married 2 years later and now have two lovely little girls, Married three and a half years now. I think it is tougher for women in their 30s but far from impossible to meet the right one. We met at work but I would have tried online dating if I hadn't met anyone. He had never previously been married and had no children - he does have a rather overbearing possessive mother but she is in another country so that is OK!! If you are religious at all I would suggest going to church, mosque etc to meet someone as men there more likely to be traditional and want to settle down instead of play the field. I know a couple of happy couples who have met at church. I also know two marriage stories from online dating. Good luck.

Something we can all agree on Cheese

Blimey Passthecheese, you're pretty loyal to someone you've never met from the internet!

Evening.

Many thanks to those who have been in touch about this thread. We could do with some time to look into what's been going on so we're going to lock this thread for now.

MNHQ