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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Over 40 and single....Anyone that "OLD"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.074504.21353@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1ghthrINNa8p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <5300049@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <254@cnmhnet.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:45:04 GMT
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- In article <254@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
- >In article <5300049@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> loftis@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kirk Loftis) writes:
- >>I hate to say this, but I feel that it is very tough for a male in his
- >>late teens and early 20's. All the women/girls are very tough to date.
- >>They play so many mind games at that age. From my own experiences, when
- >>I was that age, it was very difficult/nearly impossible to get a date,
- >>much less a relationship. Now that I am getting older (33), there are
- >>more women that are availble.
- >
- >You speak the truth, Kirk. I had the same experiences. When I was
- >in my late teens, early twenties, I just about couldn't buy a date.
- >Then all of a sudden it seemed, in my latter 20's, I was like a
- >kid in a playground. I could get just about any woman I wanted.
- >It was like that up until I got married this year. In fact, I
- >know I could *still* get any woman I wanted, although I'm not
- >going to try, because I *am* married. But Kirk is definitely
- >right.
-
- Hmmmm...so far my experience has been just the reverse--I found that I
- was much more in demand relationship-wise when I was in my early to mid
- twenties; once I hit twenty-six or so, the level of interest began to
- drop fairly rapidly.
-
- Now, at age 29, while finding someone interested in a non-serious sexual
- fling is no more difficult than ever, the women I know who are interested
- in romantic relationships with men are almost all looking for men younger
- than themselves, preferably in their late teens to early twenties, for
- anything serious.
-
- Trygve
-
- --
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- best self-help book of the nineties." -- Steve Gerben, asst. shipping manager.
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-
- and now, at age 29, I'm finding that, while there
-
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