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Loners

intheflow

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5. Alone by choice, okay with it for now, don't want to give up the dream

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Thu Jun 9, 2022, 10:36 AM

Jun 2022

of finding true love. But as a 58-year-old white woman with no wealth or savings and two advanced degrees living in a city where only 19% of people over the age of 24 have a Bachelor's... the pickings are slim and I may have to accept that being alone is just how the rest of my life will be spent. Sigh.

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are you happily alone? [View all] mopinko Jun 2022 OP

Been that way most of my life. lpbk2713 Jun 2022 #1

i'm the complete opposite. mopinko Jun 2022 #2

I do well in most social situations. lpbk2713 Jun 2022 #3

Most introverts are like that Warpy Jun 2022 #8

That's so true. I like people. I just like solitude more. prodigitalson Sep 2023 #13

Even though I prefer to live alone.. luvs2sing Jun 2022 #4

Alone by choice, okay with it for now, don't want to give up the dream intheflow Jun 2022 #5

well, i've had a couple of less than the dream relationships, and i'm not sorry. mopinko Jun 2022 #6

I don't know the answer. Gore1FL Jun 2022 #7

Alone by her cancer death circumstances six years. Getting out more last couple years. IA8IT Jun 2022 #9

Other BunnyMcGee Dec 2022 #10

My husband of 44 years died in May CountAllVotes Jan 2023 #11

Do something nice for yourself today prodigitalson Sep 2023 #14

I think I do better with a good mate, but snot Jan 2023 #12

I subscribe to Oscar Wilde's views on solitude jfz9580m Oct 2023 #15