Are you kidding me? That isn't gone forever.

Only a cynical, grumpypants won't let themselves go with the giddy, giggly....and might I say deliciously euphoric roller coaster ride, which is the beginning of a new romance.

Go ahead and close yourself off, but as for me?......I say throw your hands up and forget about fastening your seatbelt! LET'S RIDE!!!



Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

I've gotten that 'rush' of infatuation a few times since I've been single again. It feels good too, so I enjoy it. But its tempered by everything that I've experienced in life.

I wanna be reckless with you. Dam seat belts and vitamins!

Why even start a tread,they seem to run to the same people...doesn't matter what you say?

Same place,same people???

There aren't that many of us on the threads.....did you expect lurkers to come running out and post just for you?

Sorry, but that is just a tad bit egotistical.

We have been trying for quite a while to get the lurkers to say something.

Lurkers? Where?

They are everywhere!!!!!

It is not that I don't want to make the effort (even a special effort) for a bonified date: which IMHO equals asking, or being ask, to enjoy an activity for a set period of time, light conversation with the display of normal courtesy.

But now a date can be anything from a pleasant date, to a full body mauling or worse, or to stick you with the bill, or to not even showing up or showing up so stoned, drunk, or actively mentally ill that self control is impossible.

The idea of getting to know someone has been traded in for indept inquirey to a person's complete social, financial, family, and sexual history.

The economy really has very little to do with it. What has more to do with it is there seems to be a pervasive idea that if one party pays for a date they are being used. The idea that people might take turns according to their means to express interest or even affection is seen as manipulation or being stuck with a loser.

I never thought that paying for a meal or drink was "being used". It may be that I'm old fashioned (or just old), but I would never expect the other person to pay or expect a return engagement. I've wasted money on much dumber things than a dinner and drink.

I don't have time nor energy to be "Giddy" anymore. Practicality and caution has taken over. Been smoked and mirror disappointed too many times. You women watch too many lifetime channel specials and read too many cheating romance novels. OH LOOK!!!!------> a knight in shining armour!! Go get em!!!

Sorry to dissappoint you! You didn't qualify who you wanted to respond to your post.

Maybe I am missing something but I thought the whole idea of presenting a post in open forums was for and open community to repond.

If you want new people to post in your forum you might want to not start with insulting those that have.

I found my knight in shining armour......okay so it's shining only where someone rubbed up against him like a car you parked to close to in a parking lot......and he has a few dents, so do I.

I don't have shining armor, just an old football helmet and a costume store codpiece, will that do?

Hi you you go girl !

Yeah what she said and add two more wheeeeeeeeeeeeee's !!

Myself also but the "old fashioned" prior dateing ettiquette seems to have changed. Kind of squashes the feeling that a date is a compliment to the person being asked. As a woman if I ask a gentleman to do something I am neither desperate, trying to lable him, or paying off a previous date but I do think a little reciprocity is ok as relationships develope.

Reality is 95% perception. It's my personal goals, and not some silly recession/depression/downturn that gets in the way, not in the least.

YOu know what I miss??? the uncertainty........the unknown. The vast world that is out there. The options that I didnt take....the would have should have....the realization that I would get old..........I thought I would always be young. The innocence.....