Morning all!
On the opening doors, walking on the outside I try to do it and I’ve never had a woman complain yet.
Jolly was ‘sandwich’ a euphemism for a threesome with you and the lodger? 
Ocelot your instincts are right about the Scot. He may mean well but you don’t want to be a distraction from his grief. And if someone’s down, they have a tendency to bring you down with them,
Sassy you come up with the most amazing things, either in your own advice or finding the wise words of others. Sounds like a good start with mrcalm
314 enjoy the variety of your inbox. I get Chinese women in China, American women in the US, and ‘professional’ women in the UK. And the odd good one.
Freaky, you know what you want with youngster. Enjoy yourself! There’s nowt wrong with fantasies.
Handy great news that twix is now stepping up.
Traffic sorry to hear that. I’ve only ever been looking for a woman with kids because the ones who don’t have them , don’t understand, and I can’t really relate to them. You are the prize, and the right man will love and admire you more because of the way you have both coped and brought up your kids.
Foxtrot well played with Fence. Looking forward to the updates about Leicester
Last there’s nothing like that initial uplift you get when a promising prospect comes into view. It’s a very good sign that he’s juggled.
On my own situation, I think I’ve been dumped, but a small part of me wonders if it’s just holding me off. As always, Sassy’s right. I do think that I need closure.
The text basically said – enquiring after my health, then very sorry that she didn’t want to see me at the agreed date. There was nothing about ‘ever again’ or ‘moving on’. I’m paraphrasing the text as she is an academic, and the style could be easily matched up and identified. It was written in a formal, semi polite style which took the emotional expressions out of it. But she’s a woman who is used to using words carefully. I’ll PM it if anyone’s interested.
If I walk away I don’t think she’ll come back. She’s too used to life without relationships and she does have a lot on her plate at the moment. And I do need to focus on what’s best for me. If there’s going to be any approach, it will have to be from me. It’s still under two weeks which is not long in the context of a relationship of a couple of months. I do realise I’m sounding increasingly soppy and spineless though, which is quite out of character.