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What places? I'm a happily married man, but I have single male friends in that age range.

Primarily dating apps and websites. Meeting people in person is extremely difficult.

What's difficult about meeting in person? My single male friends in that age range often don't use apps. The reason is they assume (correctly or not) that any woman on there is getting inundated with messages from guys, and it's also less personal.

Try in person.

Where are your single guy friends hanging out?

You know, married women are I believe the least happy group of people, so I would consider just staying single.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-philosophers-diaries/202105/is-marriage-bad-deal-women

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What places? I'm a happily married man, but I have single male friends in that age range.

Primarily dating apps and websites. Meeting people in person is extremely difficult.

What's difficult about meeting in person? My single male friends in that age range often don't use apps. The reason is they assume (correctly or not) that any woman on there is getting inundated with messages from guys, and it's also less personal.

Try in person.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe your search criteria are too restrictive? Are you open to different ethnicities? I know a great guy around that age, and a big catch, but in a less-preferred ethnicity on American dating websites.

east or south Asian man?

Maybe your search criteria are too restrictive? Are you open to different ethnicities? I know a great guy around that age, and a big catch, but in a less-preferred ethnicity on American dating websites.

Anonymous wrote:Work in the best place you can and find a guy at work. Then change jobs.

Not great advice. Especially in the #metoo world, men are going to be very hesitant about getting involved with anyone at work.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is 35, good guy, just got divorced (they just got married too young and grew apart, no kids). He meets people online.

Sloppy man alert. There is a reason he is divorced. Find a man who focused on career achievements vs early life marriage. No need to dumpster dive.

A “dumpster dove” for my loving, patient and kind DH. His first wife cheated on him and generally took advantage of him.

Anonymous wrote:Seems all the good ones are already married.

Alternatively, why would one of these man you denigrate want a 37 year old over a 26 year old?

You make yourself worth marrying. Like attracts like.

Honestly, I think if you are frustrated with where you are at in terms of dating, but you definitely want to get married and want a "good guy", you should find a therapist and/or life coach and get ready to overhaul your life a bit.

It's cheesy but it's true: stop waiting for a man "worth marrying" and instead BE the man you'd want to marry. Do you travel? Do you have hobbies? How do you spend your weekends? Do you have a diverse group of friends or do you hang out with the same 2-3 people all the time? Are you already married to your work and if so, do you love it or are you just putting in hours? Would you want to be with a person like you? If not, be the person you'd want to be with.

And by the way, this works whether you meet someone in person or online. Yes, if you go do things you would expect a worthy partner to do, you are more likely to meet a worthy partner. But also: even if you meet someone online, you are more likely to attract the kind of person you want if you are putting off the qualities and vibes that you are hoping to find in a match.

I know a woman like this, same age, who feels this way. And she's never asked so I'm not going to tell her, but the problem is that she spends way too much time with two groups of people (her gay friends from work, and her best GF and GF's husband) and gloms onto their interests and personalities and just isn't her own person or pursuing her own interests. It's not attractive or interesting to potential partners, who are not going to want to spend every Friday night in her friend's kitchen gossiping about the same group of people they've all known for the last 10 years. She needs to GO DO SOMETHING. And I'm not talking about a girls weekend. I mean she needs to think about what she actually cares about (not what her small group of friends care about, because they are separate people, but her own true, unique interests) and then pursue them in a meaningful way. She spends so much time hanging out with a married couple who already found each other and some middle age gay dudes who are delightful but have very different life goals than she does. She thinks she's being bold in her life choices but she's actually hiding behind her friends because she's afraid if she struck out on her own, then... I don't know, and neither does she. And that's the point.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is 35, good guy, just got divorced (they just got married too young and grew apart, no kids). He meets people online.

Sloppy man alert. There is a reason he is divorced. Find a man who focused on career achievements vs early life marriage. No need to dumpster dive.

PP here, far from it, my friend is very successful, in part their careers being far apart made it hard for them (I'm friends with both of them).

But hey, being judgmental is a great way to never end up with anyone. I mean, what if they're divorced something must be wrong but if they're still single must be something wrong, so just give up?

Had this issue at 37. Found one who seems great and turned out not to be. Now I am 50 and looking again. Fun times.

Work in the best place you can and find a guy at work. Then change jobs.

Anonymous wrote:My friend is 35, good guy, just got divorced (they just got married too young and grew apart, no kids). He meets people online.

Sloppy man alert. There is a reason he is divorced. Find a man who focused on career achievements vs early life marriage. No need to dumpster dive.

Go back in time and get married at 30. Focus your energy on perfecting time travel. It’s not like you have a date or anything…