What are my chances?
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Anonymous
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I know plenty of women who would be perfectly happy to date a nice, smart, humorous guy who's on the balding side. (just don't do the comb-over! ever! please!)
The trick is not to try to go *too* young, because women a bit closer to your age will be more likely to see you as a catch and women under 35 might be more likely to say, "why's the old guy hitting on me?" 
I think women have issues with bald/balding men if they associate it with their bald dads. I've never had issues with it because my dad has a ridiculously lush head of hair at age 67. |
Anonymous
| OP youre fine. Im balding at 34. Thats rough (though i do ok with women). Youre 48 nobody expects you to look like a 25 year old. |
Anonymous
Love this look, especially with well groomed facial hair. |
Anonymous
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Balding men are gross.
Shaved head are hot IF you have the face for it. |
Anonymous
+ 1000 Men with shaved head look amazingly handsome...thinning hair or balding hair makes you look old...shaved head...like a mean fighting machine... |
Anonymous
| Loose weight and get in shape. Then shave your head. |
Anonymous
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I wouldn't stress too much about the hair issue OP.
Many men in your age group have the same issue and you are most definitely not alone. 
Try not to focus too much on it and be so self~conscious about it. I am quite sure you have many outstanding qualities/characteristics about you that make you quite attractive to a woman!!!
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Anonymous
Yes, this. Not silly at all. I know several hot guys with shaved head. I was also going to say, before seeing this and needing to quote, that balding is really not that big a deal to me at all. I just think it looks better, if a guy has mostly bald on top, and then that ring of hair around the bottom, to just shave it all. It looks good. Think Vin Diesel. And good luck OP! You sound like a great guy
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Anonymous
Tell us more of your great insights, shallow trash. |
Anonymous
| As someone in your dating demographics, I would want to do know if you are together emotionally, if you have a good relationship with your kids (if you have them), that your have a valid reason for your divorce, and if you are co-parenting that your ex isn't toxic. All more important than if you have hair, assuming you want more from me than a fling. |
Anonymous
| I would shave it off, depending on how it looks right now. I'm a woman and have never had an issue with the shaved look. In my 20s I had a fiancé who was losing his hair and decided to shave it off. Looked fine to me. I know several men now who are shaved and I consider them hot (well they are otherwise hot too, my point is the baldness doesn't detract from it for me). |
Anonymous
I am co-parenting with a toxic ex - it's the reason I am divorced. I am three years out from launching my DD off to college, then I will not have to deal with the ex at all. |
Anonymous
| Very, very high. Women don't really care about hair (or hair loss) FWIW. Men seem obsessed with it. |
Anonymous
That's not really true. You'll have to deal with her less when DD goes to college, but you will still have to deal with her a little. You and the ex will presumably both attend DD's college graduation, attend her wedding, and be grandparents to her children (assuming she has them). While this is not the same daily minefield of having young children together, it still involves a level of cooperation and civility. Being able to navigate those situations with grace will make you more attractive to a grown up woman. Personally, I could deal with a toxic ex for the right man (especially if the children are on the older side, as is the case for you) but if HE can't deal with her, then I'm wary. As long as there are still people in the world you and the ex made together, you'll be at least vaguely in each other's orbit. |
Anonymous
| I'd date you. I'm a avian boned tiny spinner type with long hair. 36. Do you have kids? |