Well, I happen to know that a lot of very reasonable and non-childish people have had similar thoughts, G. It's not uncommon at all to be annoyed or disturbed by signs that indicate a lack of interest (not having time to talk to you while posting on the forums would certainly qualify as such an indicator).
It's also not uncommon for people to have different perceptions about how much time together feels right. The key there is to find someone who has a roughly equal desire to spend time together, I think.
Not sure it would qualify as a date, but I met a lady through Match.Com whose photo showed a slim, attractive gal, but who proved in real life to be anything but slim (I would guess she was 5'4" and 220, and was likely many years older than her claimed age. I also suspect, from her breath, that she was also a smoker, though her profile stated she wasn't. As we walked - or should I say, in her case, waddled - through a park, she regaled me with stories about her ex...how strongly she was still connected to him, how much she worried about him, how brilliant he was, and so forth. I couldn't detect any interest in me, for which I was suitably grateful.
Fortunately, the walk exhausted her, so we cut our meeting short, and parted. "Let's keep in touch!" she called from her car. That was the last time we ever spoke, thankfully.
He was the only one worth anything in that race. The other two were just puppets for the same people who brought us all the financial and human disasters of the last century.
And there wouldn't be any point in going back if you didn't know - you'd just redo everything again!
You wouldn't "re-do all you've already done" if you knew, but you'd have to do *some* of it, and a lot of that would likely be a drag. It would probably be quite awhile before the "good times" started to roll (the main things you wished to change by going back).
I wonder how many people have considered the full logical repercussions of starting over at any given point. For example, if you go back before your children are born, it would be next to impossible probabilistically for you to have them again. Ditto for many other presumably positive things in your life.
Good idea, Sweet. I had thought my stiletto heels would be enough to put him off, but apparently not. (I wonder if field biologists have ever studied a gay cougar in the wild?)
True, Jackie, it's more than the U.S. I just named that country because perhaps some of the spirit that helped found it still lives.
We COULD have a voice, if enough of us spoke up. We're only talking about a relatively tiny number of individuals against the vast majority of citizens, after all.
Good thing, because it is about as dreary as it gets today. Rainy, foggy, and just plain freaking dark outside. I'm hoping that mountain lion that's been following me on my runs will stay in his damn cave today....
RE: too busy? he posts something here on CS and yet i dont get any email or even an offline IM.
Well, that's all fine and good, Arlene, but who's going to speak my words and thoughts for ME?