* gentle hugs * NF. I've been trumping to make a friend or two lately, and am just over it. I'm not "giving come-ons". I just want someone in my life with brains, interests, common sense, someone to do other than "kill time with."

I've been sexually assaulted three times in six months, while opemly seeklimg friends, and they all have excused including it being my fault ... Once by a 45-ish professional man who said I was too sexy. I'm 66, 1O-lbs overweight & not-ugly.

I work very well with the public of all ages at work but am a loaner by nature and am content with that. The attempt to find a friend at this point isn't worth a single more traumatic episode, much less even contemplating whether it's my bi polar affliction or my fault in any other sense.