It's not just feeling like you belong somewhere that is important it is also actually being accepted.

Myself? In a lot of ways my family is still learning where I fit and for a few family members I simply don't fit. But importantly my children grew up with me and accept me wholeheartedly and love me unconditionally.

On average, strength is one of the few ways that a lot of larger men exceed the abilities of a lot of women. But when it comes to endurance,scientists have already confirmed that men really are the weaker sex. By reviewing and collating historical records, researchers have found in times of famine, epidemic and hardship women have consistently outlived men.

Euripides wrote, 'The greatest pleasure of life is love.' Now how true is that

I think it depends on the personalities of the people involved, the strength of their relationship, how committed each person is, and how far away from each other they actually live.

I have found myself in an LDR when the other person was a few hours drive away or a quick (1 to 3 hours) plane flight away. I have also found that not only are LDRs time consuming, but also financially expense to maintain. Out of all the LDRs I have been involved in, only ever one was what I would consider to be successful.

Would I willingly go into an LDR again? Possibly, but only with the right guy. We would have to be no more than a few hours drive or a quick flight away from each other, see each other at a minimum fortnightly, and it would only be a short term measure - 12 months at most. If neither of us are committed to move closer after that time, well there really isn't a committed relationship is there!

For me I prefer a relationship with a guy around my own age. If a younger guy chases me I think why are you interested in me? In 20 years time I'm going to be a wrinkled old woman. I want someone who will grow old with me and we'll still be able to connect when we're in our 80s and 90s. Not some guy who is just reaching middle age and looking at some 30 or 40 year old and then leaving me at home in my wheelchair.

That walk on the wild side babe

Indecent Whatever!

Define decent ...

Your always happy and smiling Emily and it's infectious, so don't ever change that smile of yours.

I didn't until I joined online dating sites - now I get ghosted all the time

Gidday you mob.

If its on this site and they haven't contacted you back there maybe a number of reasons. Maybe they have been busy in their life offline and haven't had a chance to get online or maybe they have ghosted you. I would just let it be if they want to contact you they how.

Having lived both sides now I know from experience its combination of three things, hormones (Estrogen) and social - women tend to be more empathic and boys are taught from an early age that men don't cry.

I'm thinking there's no cute guys hitting me up for a chat so I may as well go to bed for the night.

I came here to see if there is that somebody special here waiting for me, not someone who wants to clean me up, but someone who thinks I'm a beautiful mess

How do I change my bi-line?