Dating (3 Viewers)

[Dago]

I’m learning that white men on this forum have a thing for Asian women.

My gf is from Panama. Swore i wouldnt be with another Hispanic woman after my divorce yet here I am

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

My gf is from Panama. Swore i wouldnt be with another Hispanic woman after my divorce yet here I am

Oh yeah. Forgot about your thing for Central American women.

My ex husband was from South America. I’m cool on Latino men for the rest of my forkin life.

 

[Dago]

Oh yeah. Forgot about your thing for Central American women.

My ex husband was from South America. I’m cool on Latino men for the rest of my forkin life.

I got no preferences lol

Pretty much my main requirements were intelligent and having a reasonably healthy lifestyle (for a large part so I wouldn't fall back into my former eating habits). Other than that I was open to any and all who would condescend to date a midget (in online dating being average height makes you a midget)

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Also, I was doing this stuff that @bclemms is doing. That’s how I ended up married. Was traveling in South America with my then best friend & my ex husband was a friend of her family (she was from South America too which is what took us there). He had just gotten back after living in London for 3 years. We would meet up on trips, visit each other, etc. stupid in lust and didn’t want to be apart. It likely would have died a natural death over time due to distance under normal circumstances but then my dad passed away unexpectedly and not long after, we decided getting married was a good idea

Then, once we settled into regular married life in the same house and country, all the novelty of this foreign person wore off & you discover people are the same everywhere & we ended up with the same problems every couple has & likely would have broken up before marrying if we had been able to date while living separately in the same city and doing normal dating in lieu of honeymoon trips.

When I judge y’all, just know that I was once y’all. I just know better now.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Also, I was doing this stuff that @bclemms is doing. That’s how I ended up married. Was traveling in South America with my then best friend & my ex husband was a friend of her family (she was from South America too which is what took us there). He had just gotten back after living in London for 3 years. We would meet up on trips, visit each other, etc. stupid in lust and didn’t want to be apart. It likely would have died a natural death over time due to distance under normal circumstances but then my dad passed away unexpectedly and not long after, we decided getting married was a good idea

Then, once we settled into regular married life in the same house and country, all the novelty of this foreign person wore off & you discover people are the same everywhere & we ended up with the same problems every couple has & likely would have broken up before marrying if we had been able to date while living separately in the same city and doing normal dating in lieu of honeymoon trips.

When I judge y’all, just know that I was once y’all. I just know better now.

I can appreciate that, but i think ur POV is more an indictment of the institution of marriage than anything else .. i wont say ill *never* marry again, but i hope to avoid it in the future .. with my ex we were together off and on for 14 yrs, but once we got married it died after 3.5 yrs…. I see nothing wrong with the ‘honeymoon phase’ lasting for as long as one can possibly stretch it.. that said, my ex and i, for the decade or so that preceded our marriage, we bought a home together, lived together , adopted dogs together and on and on.. definitely not all honeymoon, but to me it was a nice sweet spot since every day, either she or I reserved the right to wake up any morning and declare that we did not want to be there… there was no piece of paper forcing us to “stick it out”… no religious component since we are both agnostic.. no getting the government involved in our relationship/love life… UNTIL we made the mistake of getting married .

 

[bclemms]

I can appreciate that, but i think ur POV is more an indictment of the institution of marriage than anything else .. i wont say ill *never* marry again, but i hope to avoid it in the future .. with my ex we were together off and on for 14 yrs, but once we got married it died after 3.5 yrs…. I see nothing wrong with the ‘honeymoon phase’ lasting for as long as one can possibly stretch it.. that said, my ex and i, for the decade or so that preceded our marriage, we bought a home together, lived together , adopted dogs together and on and on.. definitely not all honeymoon, but to me it was a nice sweet spot since every day, either she or I reserved the right to wake up any morning and declare that we did not want to be there… there was no piece of paper forcing us to “stick it out”… no religious component since we are both agnostic.. no getting the government involved in our relationship/love life… UNTIL we made the mistake of getting married .

I’ve never been married and completely agree. The problem I do see on the horizon is the government requiring us to get married to be together in the US. That is a bridge I dont have to cross for a long time and I’ll have prenups from here to Hong Kong if that would take place.

This is also where this thread intersects with the retiring abroad thread.

 

[saintmdterps]

As I said, in my mind, everyone is the guy in the meme until they prove otherwise. You’ve proven otherwise.

There was a “post a picture of yourself” thread on here some time ago. I wonder if everyone lied on that thread too

I did post an after-race picture back in the spring. I’m slightly lighter now and shaved off the Van Dyke after 12 years. Otherwise it’s accurate--which is too bad.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I’ve never been married and completely agree. The problem I do see on the horizon is the government requiring us to get married to be together in the US. That is a bridge I dont have to cross for a long time and I’ll have prenups from here to Hong Kong if that would take place.

This is also where this thread intersects with the retiring abroad thread.

You could be right.. and i dont put anything past the ‘family values’ types that pervade the US right now, and soon Washington DC again, fully and with very few speedbumps or roadblocks….. but i just cant see how logistically, they would be able to prevent couples from cohabitating, or being together, without marriage .. i just dont know how that would work .



There are still a thousand other reasons to move abroad for love and a better life though, ha .

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Also, I was doing this stuff that @bclemms is doing. That’s how I ended up married. Was traveling in South America with my then best friend & my ex husband was a friend of her family (she was from South America too which is what took us there). He had just gotten back after living in London for 3 years. We would meet up on trips, visit each other, etc. stupid in lust and didn’t want to be apart. It likely would have died a natural death over time due to distance under normal circumstances but then my dad passed away unexpectedly and not long after, we decided getting married was a good idea

Then, once we settled into regular married life in the same house and country, all the novelty of this foreign person wore off & you discover people are the same everywhere & we ended up with the same problems every couple has & likely would have broken up before marrying if we had been able to date while living separately in the same city and doing normal dating in lieu of honeymoon trips.

When I judge y’all, just know that I was once y’all. I just know better now.

Thus piteously Love closed what he begat:
The union of this ever-diverse pair!
These two were rapid falcons in a snare,
Condemned to do the flitting of the bat.
Lovers beneath the singing sky of May,
They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers:
But they fed not on the advancing hours:
Their hearts held cravings for the buried day.
Then each applied to each that fatal knife,
Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!—
In tragic hints here see what evermore
Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force,
Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse,
To throw that faint thin line upon the shore!

 

[saintmdterps]

I’ve never been married and completely agree. The problem I do see on the horizon is the government requiring us to get married to be together in the US. That is a bridge I dont have to cross for a long time and I’ll have prenups from here to Hong Kong if that would take place.

This is also where this thread intersects with the retiring abroad thread.

Yup, there is going to be a correlation between dating and retiring abroad. Right now I'll settle for dating a broad

I'll show myself out...

 

[0rion]

Yup, there is going to be a correlation between dating and retiring abroad. Right now I'll settle for dating a broad

I'll show myself out...

A broad broad abroad?

 

[Devildog]

If I were to ever be divorced, I would just be alone for the rest of my life and focus on my adult kids. I can't imagine dating anyone at this time. Judging by my wife's friends who are around our age who are single, beaches be crazy.

 

[sfidc3]

I’m learning that white men on this forum have a thing for Asian women.

I never did until I started seeing this girl (long distance I was at UNO she was at UMD) that was half Irish and half Korean.....We visited each other for weeks at a time between 1987-88, I was getting ready to graduate and move away from NOLA (and ironically wound up in MD) and she wanted to move in with me.....wherever I went, I wasn't ready.....it wasn't a mistake per se, I have no complaints....She was a great girl, funny/smart, already had her degree, it's just the timing wasn't right.....ever since her I admit I do find Asian women.....attractive....

Terp would know where I met here (at UMD's infamous dive bar back in the day).....

Also, I take at least 2 showers a day....FWIW (nothing)

 

[saintmdterps]

I never did until I started seeing this girl (long distance I was at UNO she was at UMD) that was half Irish and half Korean.....We visited each other for weeks at a time between 1987-88, I was getting ready to graduate and move away from NOLA (and ironically wound up in MD) and she wanted to move in with me.....wherever I went, I wasn't ready.....it wasn't a mistake per se, I have no complaints....She was a great girl, funny/smart, already had her degree, it's just the timing wasn't right.....ever since her I admit I do find Asian women.....attractive....

Terp would know where I met here (at UMD's infamous dive bar back in the day).....

Also, I take at least 2 showers a day....FWIW (nothing)

The 'Vous, the Cellar, or the Back Room? My money's on the 'Vous. AKA Rendezvous Inn. Greatest dive bar ever.

Apropos of nothing, the stale beer on the floor of the 'Vous was called vousdous