Well I'm nearly 50 so my rant thread was meant as a reflection and a desire to share my exasperation over the horrible dating experiences that I've had to go through over the past two decades with men. The positive experiences that I have had dating were nice but fleeting because the men just weren't right for me.

I don't really need dating advice as much as I need to know (rhetorically, I suppose) why some women are lucky and meet "the one" whereas there's gals like me who are constantly bombarded with "frogs" no matter what we do to clearly communicate our standards, boundaries, or expectations to the eligible bachelors who cross our paths.

I mean, short of carrying a resume with me of my dating objective, a professional summary of my relationship successes and bullet point lists from each failed relationship of what I achieved, vs. what I failed at, I am at my wit's end with the way the dating world works now with online dating.

I definitely have hobbies and I definitely attend social group gatherings again but only to get myself back into the social scene. I mean, these female celebrities who dated/are dating younger men give me hope that all is not lost...yet.

But I will not resort to paying a dating website to find 'the one' for me after I gave it 5 years of online dating which yielded nothing good.