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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 40, I went through a long and difficult divorce.

My life isn't fabulously better, but it's perfectly fine. I'm interested in dating but given my marriage experience and my working in family law, the red flags can't slip by anymore.

But my kids are happy and doing well, my home is calm, and I feel much more confident - much less scared of anything. I feel... experienced? Like I've had many complex experiences and now I prefer a very specific type of person who lives similarly to me.

As a parent, friend, relative, contractor - I'm a better person since my divorce, my personality has shifted and changed in many ways I'm thankful for. Grief has been difficult but I'm mostly through that now and feel like my future is wide open, and not so incredibly limited and shoved in a box as it used to be.[/quote]

People want a “makeover” - oh she got divorced and now her new husband is hotter and richer, etc. But the changes are more internal. Maybe you are so happy and liberated and confident you don’t want to date again. Maybe you do date but don’t want to marry. Maybe you end up with someone whom society thinks has lesser status but makes you feel like the most beautiful person in the world after a marriage full of abuse and neglect. [/quote]

+1 Remarriage and upward mobility aren't the goals. Being happy and content enough to remain single, or not, is a great goal. [/quote]

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