I am 40 and feel good about it. My dad is 62 and he looks and feels great.
I am surprised that nobody told you kindly what snenior citizen means.
It is a term that is used by many soceities to describe people of a pensionable age.
In the UK we have another term, is OAP. Short for old aged pensioner.
I have the same problems when I speak German, ali, I come out with things that are often smiled at, yet people don't take offence, they correct me and I listen.
So, all these pages later and you have been ticked off. If I had seen it earlier I would have explained it to you. I think you were congratulating and complimenting people over 40, not being unkind.
Jesse, you will enjoy and love this child in such a way that you never felt before. I know from my own father how he has so enjoyed his time being a grandfather.
He has a sign on his fridge
'If I had known grandchildren were so much fun, I would have had them first'
Hello daddy. Yes I do love you. Not as much as my own dad of course.
Now. You do advise discretion, indeed. You did with me and that madman I found myself hooked up with.
I agree, there is a danger of building such expectations around when we have chats and bond during online 'relationships'
Then we meet and we are disappointed.
It is superficial yes, again I agree. I am a realist and not often swung by a person who tells me he is in love with my picture. For me it is alien.
No, you are not being cynical, you are being straight. You and I, like many of us, Rusticles, smoky, Imma, Jan and all the rest of us are here because of the bonds we have formed and we enjoy it rather than relying on the place as a platform to meet a person.
I never relied on this place for a way to meet people, it was people like you, and the many others and the friendships that I formed that kept me coming back. Not because of a wish to meet a person.
The fact that I did, slotted in nicely alongside my life.
Did it work for me? I never see it that we met on here, it what we do as a couple from hereonin that is important.
You know, when I first joined here I was like you. I was not interested, I remember poor Rusty mailing me, he had noticed I lived in Salzburg and he wrote me that he had visited it once, and I blew him away entirely. He rightly put my straight and said he was making conversation and not at all chasing me.
I was like the women you describe. Oh yes Sir, I did not want to know. So I just deleted and never responded. Only person I did respond to was Airliner.
And even though he has now left we are still friends. Still in touch.
But to go back to what you have said. I can see that it is a minefield. I still feel the same and do not envy a lot of people looking for people from here.
Here in the EU we know each other, so the fact that you do not have a picture does not concern us, to us you are Elley part of our group.
You sound just fine as you are.
I do hope that one day, some fine, fine woman drops out of the sky into your life.
But then I do hope that you continue as you are too, on your road to happiness.
You shout that you don't need a woman. But secretly, I think you would like one.
Elley, you are the best and it is wonderful that you have come back to see us.
You know Gilly? My father's best friend of over 40 years lost his son 18 months ago. At the age of 38.
I spoke with my father's friend. And he told me this. 'People keep not mentioning Steve and I want to talk about him, they think that it is too painful for me not to talk about him and I want to talk about him'
So we did. I found old pictures of when we were children and made him a collage.
So if you want to talk about your friend, the times you and he shared and the laughs you have had, even the painful times, then do.
I lost a very close friend seven years ago, she was part of our fivesome and now we are a foursome. Five girls who bonded at school and we are all still friends. Every year on June 15th we light a candle, together we are all in separate countries but we never forget.
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RE: Learning dutch
I'm taking up Dutch.I don't care what you teach me, you are one fine handsome man.
Nice to meet you.