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Chances of this man being single?

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RuffleCrow · 30/04/2019 17:36

I've been divorced for a while, single for years. I have a habit of only feeling attracted to those who wouldn't be interested. Probably a self-protective mechanism as my ex was abusive in many ways. I've had therapy to deal with it all and I'm due to start some more soon.

Anyway, I keep seeing this person around every day as we take our dcs up to different schools and I'm feeling weirdly drawn to him although i don't know him at all.

I think it's probably just the same old pattern repeating for me. "Oh look, someone completely unnattainable, time to develop a ridiculous crush". I've never seen him with a partner but I expect that's because she's at work rather than them not being together. It's not like most couples do the school run in tandem! I'm kidding myself that he's giving me 'interested' vibes, I think.

God knows why i'm doing that to myself when i already have enough on my plate, though! It's all a bit daft. It's not like beautiful single dads who do most of the childcare are exactly commonplace.

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RuffleCrow · 07/05/2019 17:04

It's true - i'm terrible for going for looks. Probably because i've always been very insecure about my own appearance. Maybe it was a trophy thing in the past - if i could get a man who was like, really, really, ridiculously good-looking then surely I couldn't be that fugly Hmm

But obviously that's a load of crap and if anything, all relationships with those men really did was make matters worse. Maybe i'm scared i'm going to make the same mistakes again. That's if given half a chance.

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