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[–] [email protected] 102 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If ur 30+ you can have romantic moments with women, which is nice.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't limit the guy. He can have romantic moments with men, too.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Regardless of gender, your 30s is a perfect time to date cute single people who just finished their first divorce.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

Romance is different when you're both old enough to have so much life experience under your belt. It isn't the same. Not saying it's better or worse, but it's absolutely different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sometimes I have romantic moments all on my own.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 5 months ago

Well, if anon thinks he is too late at 30+ years, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know if this helps, but I didn't meet my wife until I was in my forties. You have time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But I'm guessing she wasn't your first relationship?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Correct, but the other ones sucked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What d about fifties? Asking for a friend ..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Obviously you are completely alone in your fifties being single, everyone else is in happy relationships.

If the sarcasm wasn't clear, it's literally never too late.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I had a friend during nurse training who divorced at 50, thought she was never going to be in another relationship, then met someone with whom she was happier than she ever imagined.

It's definitely possible.

People can get married to the right person in their 20s or 30s, change into different people, split up and find that someone else is now the right person.

You also get access to a much larger widow/widower market once you pass 50...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As @[email protected] said: it's never too late to start being lovely.

As long as you're alive and capable of communicating, it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As long as you’re alive and capable of communicating

...here we go with the impossible standards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

What can I say? I'm high maintenance 🤷😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's never, never too late. I've seen men aged 60-75 get GFs and wives. One of them even had children with his new wife. Talk of the town is that one of these men never had a partner before.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

its never too late to start being lovely

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At 30+ my romantic relationships are far more personal and romantic then any relationship I had in my 20's...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Well you had relationships in your 20s though?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

No-one expects their dick to just drop off on their 30th birthday until it happens.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nothing triggers my depression more than seeing happy couples

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

depression, not aggression

...but thanks for the meme, I chuckled

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I will always upvote scrubs! Man it's been too long...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It takes a lot of work and compromise. You are getting one glance at a lifetime.

I got married sorta recently. My biggest hold-up was the fact that the most optimal outcome of marriage was this: I was going to spend the remainder if my life making them happy, always being there, and being an essential part of their existence, and when they need me most, in their golden days, near the end, they're gonna have to hold my hand and watch me fucking die.

I told them this before I proposed, and the crazy thing was, they were still all for it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

30 is too old to date a girl, yes. Not too old to date a woman though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yup, my brother married a wonderful woman when he was in his late 30s. They've been married >5 years and they still seem happy.

I've known people who found love much later as well. It's never too late OP.

[–] Squirrel 21 points 5 months ago

If you insist on it being a girl, then yeah, it's too late. Adult relationships have their own brand of sweet and romantic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I spent most of my 20s alone, and met the woman I married at age 33. It's never too late.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Meh, it can be easy to feel like that. But take a moment to look at all the songs, movies, poems, and books about people who felt this way since the begining of time and know you're not alone :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovoBi3pXD_A

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

He needs to switch from romance animes to hallmark romance Christmas movies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

decide to write a manga

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Lol relatable haha

Time to buy a rope

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