Partly due to genes. My parents are 70 and 69, they look 20 years younger (and are healthier than I am). My father doesn’t even have more than a couple strands of gray hair, not even noticeable.
Still single for the moment, unemployed and not too happy right now....and today I turn 42.
No dates to speak of lately, BUT I DID enjoy a nice time out recently with my best friend Laurie, back a few weeks ago.(And Laurie HAS ‘been there’ for me recently—like NO ONE else has, during this hard time for me...)
Not long ago, we had a breakfast together and saw a movie(that she had a part in),—JUST the two of us- together for over 4 hours on a Saturday earlier this month. Her husband WAS aware of things, and evidently did NOT mind, as he knew “nothing would happen” between us....and of course nothing did “happen”—just two Christian, caring, VERY close friends spending some meaningful time out together.
Nonetheless...it was the NICEST time I have EVER had with ANY woman I have ever did something together with. The few dates I have been on with women were NOWHERE NEAR as enjoyable or meaningful as our time together. and..RIGHT after that happened...I WAS able to sleep pretty normally again...after a MONTH of not being able to sleep, after the mess with my job last month.
And she has since taken me and my sister out with her a couple of Fridays ago, to play pool and arcade games together.
I DID “speak” with a couple of women on-line at Eharmony, but it NEVER has “gone anywhere. Few, if ANY other women out there, who are even reasonably attractive and moral and intelligent,and single—see me as Laurie does, or are willing to “put up with me or try and understand me” so...I am still alone, but NOT as alone As I used to be...
I AM on facebook, under my own name, and I am as “popular there” with my “old crowd from school” as I was before—which is to say STILL the outcast...as I figured WOULD be the case. Laurie has warned me NOT to “say too much” there...as it could “haunt me”.