Reply to I know I'm old, but is this how things work?

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "I know I'm old, but is this how things work?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a boomer. I have a friend who is 40. I knew her as a teenager. She has always been very sweet and a sort of fundamentally innocent person, teaches in a Catholic school (Catholic but hates the MAGA-ness of the parents and also believes that all religions are aimed at the same thing), but one who has experienced a lot of trauma in her life including some horrific partner abuse (not physical but very, very nasty). She'd met a guy on Tindr long distance but the relationship recently ended shortly before she was to travel to his city. She was very upset about it all and called me a couple of nights in a row, she gets very invested emotionally fairly easily when she meets someone who seems to share her interests in life.

I was surprised to learn that according to her sexting and phone sex is basically expected in online dating these days. She said you never show your face to protect yourself. Is this really the case? I did a little dating after becoming widowed but never met anyone who I found emotionally attractive, even though some were very decent guys and conventionally attractive, and have really lost interest in trying anymore, and no online dating at all. My friend no longer has family and not a lot of people she can talk to, and I'm one of a few people she reaches out to for support.  I've also never understood the attraction of sexting to begin with, but she says if you don't do it you won't get anywhere at all. [/quote]
Not if you’re looking for a serious relationship. Sounds like she’s only swiping on f#%^ boys.

She needs to block any men who immediately request this. They aren’t serious. Move on quickly and discard the garbage.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics