I'm so glad I missed the dating apps by a few years. I met my wife in a bar the old fashioned way. I told that to my Gen Z co-workers and their jaws dropped like I was from another planet. It was never easy working up the courage to meet people but it sure beats swiping and waiting and dwelling.
I'm so glad I missed the dating apps by a few years. I met my wife in a bar the old fashioned way. I told that to my Gen Z co-workers and their jaws dropped like I was from another planet. It was never easy working up the courage to meet people but it sure beats swiping and waiting and dwelling.
Same here. A Saturday night fifty three years ago at Lucifer's in Boston. That's the way we used to do it. There were bands, dancing, booze, and women who wanted to meet men. You met people face to face in those days. Life was fun. We've been married 51 years, and I've never had any second thoughts or regrets about it.
Granted I am older than dirt but when I read that Shane was 20 and hadn't had sex, I thought - I really am out of it. Most men I knew at 20 were far more worried about being sent to Vietnam than about their lack of sex.
One suggestion for young men from this oldie. Get over yourself: learn how to really listen to a woman without wondering when and if you will bed her .I don't know a woman of any age who doesn't stay away from those types. Develop a sense of humor which is far more important than how tall you are.. Get off Tinder get out of the basement, buy a backpack and start traveling. You will meet a lot more interesting people and will have experiences that will open up YOUR horizons and make YOU a far more interesting person.
It is easy and no doubt legitimate to blame snowplow parents for your plight. But you have no one to blame but yourself if you find yourself in your 20's watching porn all day and sitting in a basement moaning and groaning about how mean the world is to you . The world has always been a mean place - learning how to cope with that is what growing up is all about. . :
I'm so glad I missed the dating apps by a few years. I met my wife in a bar the old fashioned way. I told that to my Gen Z co-workers and their jaws dropped like I was from another planet. It was never easy working up the courage to meet people but it sure beats swiping and waiting and dwelling.
"I met my wife in a bar the old fashioned way."
Same here. A Saturday night fifty three years ago at Lucifer's in Boston. That's the way we used to do it. There were bands, dancing, booze, and women who wanted to meet men. You met people face to face in those days. Life was fun. We've been married 51 years, and I've never had any second thoughts or regrets about it.
#MeToo. I don't remember the day of the week, but the bar was a place called Suds. Madison Slim and the Nightcrawlers were on the stage.
17 years ago for us. We met the day I came home from a deployment
Granted I am older than dirt but when I read that Shane was 20 and hadn't had sex, I thought - I really am out of it. Most men I knew at 20 were far more worried about being sent to Vietnam than about their lack of sex.
One suggestion for young men from this oldie. Get over yourself: learn how to really listen to a woman without wondering when and if you will bed her .I don't know a woman of any age who doesn't stay away from those types. Develop a sense of humor which is far more important than how tall you are.. Get off Tinder get out of the basement, buy a backpack and start traveling. You will meet a lot more interesting people and will have experiences that will open up YOUR horizons and make YOU a far more interesting person.
It is easy and no doubt legitimate to blame snowplow parents for your plight. But you have no one to blame but yourself if you find yourself in your 20's watching porn all day and sitting in a basement moaning and groaning about how mean the world is to you . The world has always been a mean place - learning how to cope with that is what growing up is all about. . :
Ahmen brother.
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I wonder how all these people who canтАЩt handle interpersonal disappointments will manage professional disappointments?
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