The Plight of the Single Man

[Camaero]

Ah woman, they make the highs higher and the lows more frequent!

[baggygreen]

Tell us all how it goes mikey - we're all keen to know.

besides, you should be chirpy beforehand - you know if she says no, penny will clobber her one!:rotfl:

Who, by the way, is older?? you or pen?

Have a read of "The Zahir", by Paulo Coelho....its pretty good at pointing out the difference between "love" and "possesion", most blokes try to possess their girlfriends, which I think harks back to our instinctual competative nature. But if you really love someone then ensuring their freedom should become a higher priority....not easy, but hey, nothing is really.

Right, i'm off to the docks.

[Mikey_Wolf]

I am older than Penny. Physically that is.

I went for it today, and I'm not entirely certain, but I may have had a "maybe" I've never had a I'll think on it type response before traditionally all my responses have been:

"oh I already have a boyfriend" or,

"um, I'm kinda busy for the rest of the week."

and I don't know if this today is playing hard to get (hopefully it is), or it is a "take a hint and go away" type thing.

Basically, I volunteered to take her for tea and chat... which is fine and dandy, she looked like she was about to go, least in my opinion, but got pulled back at the final moment to her books, and cup a soup.:rotfl:

So I said "how about tomorrow then?" and I got a "we'll see" and a bit of a smile.

So make of that what thy will. So I had a semi-success. I was pretty confident, not so much so to the point of arrogance. I don't know what to think will come tomorrow, but, I'm thinking maybe I'm being tested on my interest. I'm not 100% certain. Uncertainty scares me. I either like to know it will or it won't. To me maybe's are just - not very nice.

However it was better than the alternative. So well - onward and upward.

[Jimbuna]

Lock Pen in a cupboard tonight and get yersel on TS....ask her nicely for the password
Some of us old codgers will give you the benefit of some of our successes :p .......and failures

[Mikey_Wolf]

Oh well, if thats an invite. Yes that would be nice. Lets not discuss failures though, I've had plenty of them since I was 15.:rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

Victory favours the brave

[The Munster]

Originally Posted by seafarer

I'm in my late forties, and single by choice. That's the way I like it. There is a lady I do see somewhat regularly, but I have no interest in either marriage nor co-habitation. Marriage has just never appealed to me, and I've never been interested in being a father either. I've done the living together routine for a few years, but much prefer living by myself in my own place. In part, I think it's just because I cannot get motivated to make the inevitable compromises that sharing a living space with someone entails. Just the way I roll, I guess.

If you want a realtionship, go for it. But don't ever apologize to society if you choose to remain single - though some people seem to want to make you feel you need to - never understood that

Well, in the words of Meatloaf ..'you took the words right out of my mouth'
You are my twin bro [or sis], well, something like that.
PS Whilst my friends can't get to watch the footy due to those silly soaps, I'm getting to comfortably watch Man U comfortably hammer the Russkis = Ah Bliss

[baggygreen]

So..... how goes the saga? Its just as good as LS's U49 tale - but much more like Big Brother...

[TarJak]

Sounds like she might be interested. A "we'll see" could just be a way to see how keen you are. It could also have been a way of nicely saying "Bugger off you twat, I wouldn't go out with you for a million quid!":rotfl: All you can do is have another shot and if she finds an excuse then move on. If she's still playing hard to get, then you are still in with a chance.

Keep going.

[Mikey_Wolf]

Well it was definately bugger off you twat! I didn't even have to ask again! I could tell it was just wrote all over her.

I went in, genuinely, to get a book for the course, went up to the desk and it was a case of, thanks and goodbye.

So, again, I am back to square one. Thing is and this is the part that winds me up the most, and its the truth too, Penny would easily back me up on this. Our parents don't give a feck. As long as neither of us bother them with personal problems, everything is fine, if we do, then we just get short shrift.

I am starting to see myself as an Albino Lone Wolf. The sort of chap you'd have for a mate, but wouldnt share a romantic moment with. lol Im actually laughing here, I should be annoyed, but, well - I just dont care! :rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

Not caring is a good attitude. It's about that time that you're looking the other way and *WHAM*, someone comes along and decides you're hot stuff.

[Jimbuna]

Well that's one down Mikey.....but how many hundreds or thousands of others are there out there ? :hmm:

Loads young man

Take the positives out of life at each and every opportunity....she's obviously not the right one, so you would have been making a big mistake

[The Munster]

Don't worry, there are stacks of Women out there and a potential Girlfriend will pop up when you least expect it; just press on with life and have a positive outlook.

[TarJak]

Keep pluggin' away. Eventually one will say yes. Don't get hurt by a knockback but also don't just grab the first thing that comes along.