50, single but hopeful!

carol_a_3

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Have a look at Nexus - they always have loads of social events happening in London, it's not a dating organisation. Don't forget there's lots of nice coppers around, so your custody visiting may have a benefit you hadn't thought of! Agree with you about the book club thing, my mate says they were invented for women who's husband's were no longer interested in
erm.........kissing them goodnight - IYKWIM!

My sister met her partner through Nexus so I know they would recommend it and they still go now as the social aspect is so good.

dianadors

What about a National Trust working holiday? I think you can do these over a weekend.

Shineyhappy

I would suggest taking up a new interest that predominatly interests men.

I have tried to encourage my mum and her friend to take up golf, but she says she isnt interest in finding a new bloke (parents have been divorced for over 10 years!)

She also joined a bridge club and was asked out by a lot of men, but wouldnt take any of them up on their offers of a date.

Good luck with your search!

Garnet_Gem

Most men over fifty either want a 25 year old or a nurse so be very wary! On the other hand it's worth trying internet dating and looking for someone worthy of you. Godd luck.

suffolkb

I`m 52 and looking for a partner around 50 - 58. All the women around here seem to want a toy boy.

MortgageMamma

Well I'm 31 and my ideal partner if I started again would be 48-55. Older men are so much more fun and much kinder and interesting/intellectually stimulating. I find I am just attracted to men that age for some reason, even though I'm married to someone the same age as me. (dont take that the wrong way - I'm not looking! lol)

larmy16

I recently met someone off the internet though we did chat for six months before meeting. He is 47 - talk about a chemical attraction. It was fab in that respect, but we are very different in other ways. He is organized, fussy and pernickity - I am the total opposite. So it is not going to end in living together or marriage, but boy has it raised my self esteem.

another one who I have been recently chatting to, texting and he rings me, is 46 and looks lovely in his picture. I fully intend to meet up with him some time. I am keeping my options totally open. I have to say though that I am happily single, rather set in my ways, need lots of space, so these interludes are more than enough for me.

My sister knows quite a few people though, who have met on the internet, hit it off, got married (had children if they are young enough) etc.

So for me it is the men in their forties who seem the best bet. They say they dont like younger women, too self obsessed and after the wallet contents!!

PS. I am early fifties.

lynzpower

I dont know where abouts in East london you are but I saw some singles nights going on for "over 35s" in South woodford in the local paper ( waltham forest advertiser) nice catchment round there as well ':)

gentlepurr

hiya!

i'm 50 and single too, - and enjoying every minute of it. not that i dont want anyone else, but i am enjoying "finding myself" again after all these years. its been hard, and still is hard, finding a social life when you have a teenager/s still at home and have to consider their needs too, but i really feel im getting there.

i took myself off on a short break, (son was on a school trip abroad) took the bull by the horns, booked a flight to prague, and a hotel, then just went. a couple of friends offered to come with me, but it was something i really wanted to do alone, just to prove to myself i could do it. yes, it was sort of scary, but it was an exciting sort of scary, and it turned out to be one of the best things i have ever done. its given me the confidence to take control of my own destiny, and made me realise that above all, having just found out who i really am again, im in no desperate rush to lose that, even though, yes, it would be nice to have a man around too. suppose you could say i want my cake and eat it, but the point i am trying to make is that now i am more comfortable with myself i know there are some places i would have the confidence to go to on my own, eg, jamming session at a local pub, going out for a meal. i feel more confident, more self assured, and just feel that if things are meant to happen, they will happen naturally, because i am comfy in my own skin.

dunno if that helps at all, its not easy i know. but just go out and grab the world with both hands, maybe revisit, or visit some of the sights of London, somewhere perhaps that you wouldnt normally go, relax, enjoy.

xx

shazrobo

met my bloke online datin site, i ave two sons aged 12 twins. he 47 and rge most carin lovin bloke i ever nown, we been together 6 months now