Cheers guys feeling a bit more positive about the life universe and everything...
45 with 4 kids aged between 7 & 18 split with Mrs 20 months ago and was happy enough single and living on my own for first time ever apart from when kids are staying and doing what I wanted when I wanted etc etc. Had some good friends of opposite sex to take out for a meal , cinema etc but just a friends none of that funny business.
Anyway 28/12 get a friend request from a friend of a friend and we got chatting , she's single, 37 and bloomin gorgeous. I ask her out for a drink and we went out last Friday seen her once since and popping round tonight for a coffee as I've got kids later, early days yet but looks like it's me off the shelf as they say, totally unexpected and happy as owt now !!
New job starting next month as well , 7 has always been my lucky number!!
Hello in a Terry Thomas style.
Glad to hear that still works... 😉
Do you need the matching moustache??
Haha no she has no idea who Terry Thomas is.
Having had a few relationships and a great many more 'casual' liaisons I found myself alone and 34. I'd enjoyed myself but had no real desire to keep going out 'on the pull'. I'd always dismissed blind dates but then my friend suggested one and for some reason I agreed.
From the first moment I met Beth, when she disappeared in to the hedge looking for her cat, I knew she was the one. We had a great first date, which turned in to many more and now we're married, have two children, a dog, a cat and a very happy life not more than 5 years later.
It'll come mate, just don't look too hard. Saying that, my 5 week old has cried all night, i'm tired and grumpy. Stay single!!!!!
Incredible story Ambrose, hope your well, and still exploring the weathered tracks of Mid-Wales 🙂
36 and still looking BTW!
[quote=globalti ]The greatest irony of all is that, as most married people will agree, once you're married and have a bit of maturity and self-confidence you are quite happy to waltz up to just about anybody and start chatting. If the worst happened to Mrs Gti I don't think I'd have any trouble in finding somebody else once I was ready for it.
Fine if you're happily married and the only reason you might be looking again is the death of your partner, not necessarily so for the many of us on this thread who end up back in the market due to the death of the previous relationship. Or maybe it's just me not having a huge amount of self confidence where I am right now (and following the conversation I've just had, it appears there is no other realistic prospect for romance in my life). 46 and 2 kids who haven't a clue there is anything wrong.
There is however the danger of ending up with some nutter, as a cycling pal of mine discovered when he started dating a woman he met through Fitness Singles.
Are you a friend of my other half?
I had a long relationship till early 30s that I left because I was unhappy . I had come to yes with batchor life nice ish flat mountain bikes decent stereo and was resigned to it . By chance I got a late evening call to invite me to a sort of mates party in a pub . I sat down next to one of his friends introduced myself as a client of his ( he's a criminal lawyer ) we chatted and joked went on to a house party then hers . we have been together over 10 years and I love her and our boy to bits.
Love sometimes finds you when you ain't even looking.
We met on Plenty Of Fish it was perfect from the start .We got engaged after 4 days and married 15 months later .We are rarely apart and do all our walking ,cycling and drinking together.We are 52 and met nearly 3 years ago
Like most things in life, romantic success requires 1) effort (going up to people, online dating and sending 100s of messages, etc) and 2) luck.
I'm single at 35, but I fully accept it as I'm a lazy unlucky bastard 😉
I feel enormously lucky (38, she's 40s). Neither of us was looking for anything meaningful, but we [i]seem[/i] to have struck gold in a rather unlikely online location. I think my take-home is along the lines of "be pleasant, open and considerate to all persons. One of them may turn out to be a gorgeous, fascinating woman who will completely change your life and teach you that everything you thought you knew to justify your middle-aged cynicism about love and relationships is radically incorrect".
🙂
I was never one to have the confidence to chat to a lady i didn't know to ever get anywhere, i'd been lucky to have met some great ladies in younger life, but most had started as friends first.
I met my now when wife when she literally fell into my lap, at 27 then (41 now), i'd come back from travelling in Africa, broke and took the first job that came my way that also had accommodation, which was working as a chef at one of the Aussie Walkabout pubs, i'd finished work and had gone for a beer with a couple of the aussie lads at a few of the other surrounding pubs, after we walked back to Walkabout and there was two young ladies that my mate took a shine to in the taxi queue outside, he invited them in for an after hours drink and my wife to be, ended up dancing on a table (she is 6 years younger than me, and it was her Freshers Week!) when she fell off and literally landed on me.
Been married for 10 years this year.
The secret to a happy marriage? Realising there was no point in ever arguing as my wife IS always right!!
[i]We got engaged after 4 days[/i]
Wow 😯