8 years is not your entire life. I advise to be brave and maybe venture out of your comfort zone and probably you will get favorable results. Staying in a rut is easy to do but that is not you.

I haven't agreed to be friends and I suppose this I never explained to you....with your thesaurus and 80's goatee.

I can't help it, you tickle me and make me laugh but that does not mean we are friends..

Your right, 8 years isn't long. So, what should i say to get a woman to chat?
I am an overweight college intern raising 3 kids and living in the country, so i need all the help i can get. I expanded my comfort zone to 50 miles. Should i go further?

just be yourself and be honest , i meet alot of women who can't stand honesty or a guy who likes being himself , but there's alot of women who do tho ..looking for a new relationship is kinda like gambling ..

don't expect it to fast ..let it happen !!..no offense but gambling is a poor way of putting .

Go international. Or at least nation wide. Stop it with the negative and turn it to positive. You are a college man who is robust and potent and knowing of the country life that makes you ready to have a life that you deserve. women will gobble you up.

I have to go for now because i am being picked on by a non friend.

ya i know but when you look at it , its kinda like when you go out with someone you dont know what you're gonna get ..

I understand what your saying bud ! but I like surprises..sometimes their not alway good ..but.learning about a potential new partner is fun and exciting ...so it is close to what your saying...

I didn't say we WERE friends. I make no assumptions beyond your ability to amuse me.

I'm glad you like my 80s goatee and quasi-intellectual capacity, btw. I have built my persona in a manner which will elicit the strongest response from women I'll never know.

I guess I must be xenophobic.

Love is a gamble.. You risk being the happiest you will ever be or getting hurt.. JMO

If you try too hard, women can sense that. And some of them will mess with your head.. Others will just not respond. Finding love knows no time frame, it cannot possibly be measured, and takes a lot of work once you find it.

My advice is to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.. Try to stand out from the rest. Ask them a question about their profile. If under their interests it says they like the outdoors (which most of them do lol) ask them what kind of outdoor activities they like. READ the profile! Come up with your questions and email them. A woman doesn't wait her time with How are you? Would you like to chat? That just not original.. (although some woman may respond to this, usualy the conversation doesn't get that far.) Do not expect it to happen right away. It does take time. And infact, do not have any expectations at all. Just meet some friends on this board, email some women, and have a good time. Life is too short to worry all of the time. Did you know that 99.9% of our worries never come to pass? Life happens when you're busy making other plans.

I'm not very good at gambling. I don't have a good poker face, even my kids beat me!

The last time i tried going international, she turned out to be a scammer, actually i found 5 of them, whats up with that? but seriously, with my schedule, i can't really go too far.

Good question

I know exactly how to meet women online. I got it down to an artform LOL

Mirror, Mirror on the wall.. Whose the fairest of them all? heh