Oh c'mon, lets stop pretending the tone wasn't nasty. Women just love to be a bitch and hide behind their computers here. It is DCUM after all. Lame.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Step #1: Get off DCUM and get a life. Unless you're a troll trying to drum up some attention, no self-respecting 24 year old should be on here. Go volunteer, join a team or read a book.

oh stfu. you are nasty.

NP

Really? Nothing nasty in those suggestions.

NP. Really? Can you not read tone?

To the pp above, I'm looking into yoga retreats right now, thank you for the idea!

OP - be sad for awhile but then make a plan. Find ways to create joy in your life.

Tone? You read your own tone into it. Seen it plenty of times with far too defensive responses. The person that said for them to stfu, probably has been told that a number of times and ignored it. lol

For me I saw a direct, no nonsense bit of advice that could be from a peer. Or, maybe from someone who has a child within the age of the OP. Being someone close to the latter myself I guess I read the same direct, no nonsense, get off here, get active and in doing so you will meet real people doing real things and possibly the significant person you desire to have in your life I would have said it in.

Enjoy being 24 and single while you can. I did years of roses and chocolates and was miserable.

You're 24, kid. You wont' find somebody until you grow up.

I was you at 25! Then I met my fiancé, bought a house, got married, and had a baby by 27. You are so young and have the world in your hand...live it up! You have plenty of time . In fact, I wish I had met my husband a few years later than I did so I could've traveled more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Step #1: Get off DCUM and get a life. Unless you're a troll trying to drum up some attention, no self-respecting 24 year old should be on here. Go volunteer, join a team or read a book.

oh stfu. you are nasty.

NP

Really? Nothing nasty in those suggestions.

NP. Really? Can you not read tone?

To the pp above, I'm looking into yoga retreats right now, thank you for the idea!

OP - be sad for awhile but then make a plan. Find ways to create joy in your life.

OP you shouldn't be crying into your wine. Give it another 10 years before you start that.

I met my DH when I was 35 - we were both from the same city but met on a yoga retreat several hundreds of miles away, both burned out from our jobs.

Sometimes you have to push yourself out of your comfort zone. Can you do some volunteer work, or community service which will bring you into contact with different kinds of people?

Join things - meet up groups, book groups, hiking groups, whatever interests you. Avoid the "singles and drinking" groups because well, that's very boring and a basis for nothing other than more drinking and that does no one any good.

Can you take classes? Not jewelry, you'll be surrounded by little grey haired ladies. How about kick boxing?

come on - have a think about stuff you like or have always wanted to do - and do it and low and behold, you will be meeting people, even just one person you like...