Does dating still exist?

littlebrittlifts

Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »

CaliMomTeach wrote: »

I left my ex-husband in 2011, and have not had a date since. Don't feel bad for me though. I like it this way. It was hard at first, and I did feel lonely, but I think it was mostly not having the person there to share in the big moments of parenting. Once I got comfortable in my own skin in my life (maybe took me 2 years), I am quite content to remain single for now. My life is full, and I am not lonely. I also don't let being a single mama stop my kids and I from doing anything. When my kids are almost grown, I think I will be open to having someone in my life, but I can't see internet dating in my future. It all seems creepy and strange to me. If anyone ever tries to send me a gross picture, I don't know if I'll die laughing or what. I just don't understand all of that. For now, I just don't feel there is any room in my life to meet another person's needs. When my kids are asleep and the house is quiet, I feel such so calm and content. When it's just me and my kids on a road trip to Lake Tahoe or getting ready to fly to Jamaica later this month, I am content and happy. I am happy on a Friday night coming home with my kids after work to watch a Disney movie and eat popcorn and to get up on a Saturday morning to go to soccer. Dating doesn't exist for people like me. And I wish people would understand that it's not a sad thing at all.

I'm glad to hear you are comfortable in your life now. It took me quite a while to settle into my new reality as well, especially when it came to handling all the responsibility and holding it all down for myself and my son. I was in a pretty bad mind space for a long time but now I sleep like a star fish in my king size bed and until the day someone comes and sweeps me off my feet I'm totally cool with being a solo act

Yes, Dee. THIS.

MatthewG1973

Hi... dating is tough. But I vote you lead with your best!! After all your smile always makes my day

Smilin40

You see someone you like go up and say hello ,stay away from sites real things happen to real people you’ll get chatting to someone at work or in the gym or on a night out with friends and as long as there’s a spark go for it life’s to short to not take a chance every now and again.i lost my wife to the big C five years ago I meet her in a bar she was on her aunts hen night 40 drunk girls I saw her walked up and said hello lead to happiest 20 years of my life and lead to two beautiful children .

Tara_1216

I’ve been single for about a year, after being with my husband for 18. The thought of dating again scares me to death.