Where are all the nice 50-something, single males?

[MysticalChipmunk]

Are they hiding? I can’t find one. OLD is dire and not for me. What can I do?

You're ruling those women out because they can't spell?

Your standards are too high 😅

You had me at plague of little insects.

A boy's gotta draw the line somewhere. I make it a principle never to send sexually compromising photos or cash to a scammer who can't use your, you're, and yore correctly.

Ooh this thread has taken an interesting turn.
i remember many years ago the relationship thread would often hot up with little flirtations. Fascinating, please don’t take it offline for a while, I enjoy a vicarious budding errr romance

@Holidaymodeon me too, I wonder if some of those couples are still together!

Ahh forget settling down! Do exactly what the middle aged blokes do, go for someone younger! Honestly they love a well-kept older woman!

Sorry...drifted off into memories of burning my feet on the pavement in '76 🥵

Prodding the little tar bubbles on the road to pop them.
We knew how to enjoy ourselves in the 70s.

Prodding the little tar bubbles on the road to pop them. not just popping them, we used to roll them up, to create bigger tar balls.

I'm 60, I have 3 or 4 mates who seem to believe that they have discovered the elixir of life, (some 15-20 years ago). 2 have reasonable jobs, 2 have very good jobs. We all run and go to the gym. They are all in good shape (physically, mentally and financially). They seem to have put a pin in mid to late forties women and stayed there for the last 15 years or so. It's like a weird version of The picture of Dorian Gray. They go out with women generally for a couple of years (usually until the woman works out that she can't change them, but that's a whole different thread). Then they exchange them for a new version.
They often say how much dating has changed. When they were young the woman, controlled the tempo, of the relationship, especially sexually. Now they say its totally reversed and they are like kids in a sweetshop.
My DW and I often comment that at some point, 40 something women will stop dating them, but so far that has not happened.

I feel like I have been out with several of your friends 🙈

Aww I hope so!

I also found I could do this as a well maintained 55 year old woman with men in their thirties and forties. As long as I didn't want to have a long term relationship with them I could have as much meaningless fun with really good looking younger men as I could handle.

That was certainly a welcome revelation after being in a sexless marriage for 30 years with a miserable git who'd let himself go.

However there's a limit I think to how long this stays fun and luckily for me I met a really nice guy my age with whom I'm happily monogamous now. But I did have a good time and it was a huge ego boost at the time. I definitely described it to my friends as being like a child in a sweetie shop

So is that maybe an answer to the original question? To find a prince, you just have to kiss shag a lot of frogs?

Well I wouldn't describe it as shagging frogs to be honest there was a lot of flirting and chatting, a lot of fun dates and a lot of kissing (a little bit of shagging)

I know some of them would have been happy to have a relationship but for me I need somebody who matches me to do that and that's somebody my own age really.

I definitely recommend going into dating with a completely open mind and a positive mindset. A strong sense of your own worth and perhaps don't take anything too seriously until it proves itself to be worth taking seriously.