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Don't lose heart. You're too young to despair of finding someone.
I am losing heart. It might be too late. I may've never even been in the game.
 
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I didn't realize what a blessing it is to be content in singleness till I started posting here. It does get lonely being endlessly single, but I don't ache for a significant other. I'm happy by myself as well.

It took me most of my life and some broken relationships to find contentment in solitude. It was there all the time, but I couldn't have done it then.

Now that I'm 48, I'm very hesitant to give it up. I try not to say what I won't do, lest I make myself a liar, but I'm in no rush to put in with someone else. I do enjoy the company of a woman, even as friends. The dynamic is different than with male friends.
 
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I am losing heart. It might be too late. I may've never even been in the game.

Why is it too late? Have you received a death sentence? :p

Sorry, I shouldn't joke like this because you are obviously in great emotional pain, but I'm not sure what to say. Have you lost all hope entirely? What makes today different from just a few days ago when you posted more optimistically in your thread?
 
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It took me most of my life and some broken relationships to find contentment in solitude. It was there all the time, but I couldn't have done it then.

Now that I'm 48, I'm very hesitant to give it up. I try not to say what I won't do, lest I make myself a liar, but I'm in no rush to put in with someone else. I do enjoy the company of a woman, even as friends. The dynamic is different than with male friends.

There must be different ways that contentment comes as a blessing. If that makes sense. I am content to be single (for the most part) and have never been in a relationship of any duration. I wonder if it's just a learning process? Because I definitely don't have Paul's gift of singleness. That would probably come with contentment built in.
 
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Bah, what do they know? My mother would say, "They're just jealous, " which in this case is probably right. I say, if only the world would just conform a little more to Bella! :)

Sometimes women who don’t appeal to a man’s feral nature will wage war against women who do. They’ll castigate them because he holds them in high esteem.
 
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Why is it too late? Have you received a death sentence? :p

Sorry, I shouldn't joke like this because you are obviously in great emotional pain, but I'm not sure what to say. Have you lost all hope entirely? What makes today different from just a few days ago when you posted more optimistically in your thread?
Emotions fluctuate, which is why there’s hardly any truth in them.
 
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Sometimes women who don’t appeal to a man’s feral nature will wage war against women who do. They’ll castigate them because he holds them in high esteem.

Is that true? Sounds catty, lol.
 
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Bah, what do they know? My mother would say, "They're just jealous, " which in this case is probably right. I say, if only the world would just conform a little more to Bella! :)

Of course! But I’m not oblivious. I know they envy me and what they covet.
 
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Attacking a Christian woman who meets his needs is wrong

People really should know their places lest they be shown

Y'all sound like you're about to put knots on their head faster than they can rub them. Speaking euphemistically, of course.
 
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