Fifty Odd , Archive dating after 50, relationships after 50, marriage ...

Recently a friend and I were talking about dating after 50, relationships after 50 and marriage after 50. She is in favor of all those things.

I?m not so sure about it? myself.? I?m very happy being single.

My friend met someone when she was post-50. That led to her dating after age 50. Then that led to marriage after age 50.

Her husband is a wonderful man. He is handsome, well-educated, creative, somewhat easy-going, financially stable and healthy. He?s even a darn good dancer. They have a very compatible, loving and caring relationship.

My friend wasn?t really fishing for a relationship when she met him. But he is quite a catch.

She?s really glad she gave that dating after 50 thing a chance.

As for me, I have few expectations of ever dating after 50. It would require someone very, very, very special to entice me to shave my legs and spend an evening listening to him talk about himself.

There may be a lot of fish in the sea, but I?m not likely to wet a hook again.

Although?after listening to my friend talk about the good things in marriage, I began to wonder if I was missing anything. I thought about? men I had dated in the distant past. Three came to mind.

I knew my life would be different if I had hooked any one of those fellows. But would it have been better?

I asked myself, ??If I knew these men today, would I have regrets that I had tossed them back??

?I don?t know,? I answered myself.

I wondered. But I didn?t have to wonder for long.

You know how when you start thinking about someone and then you get a random phone call or a visit from them or see their obituary in the paper shortly after that? I think that?s the Universe intervening and giving you answers to your questions.

Whatever?Universal Intervention or not?within two weeks, I had definitive answers to my wondering.

Shortly after all this wondering began, I was awakened around 11:00 p.m. by a man knocking on my front door. It was more a pounding, really.

I opened the door only after he identified himself as one of the three guys? I had once dated.

Apparently he was there to deliver my answer.? There he stood on my front porch, drunker than Cooter Brown, barely able to stand upright. He steadied himself by holding onto my porch post.

He said he had just moved into the neighborhood and wanted to let me know we were neighbors and could we be friends again?

WTH? I hadn?t seen him in at least 20 years. How did he even know where I lived?

Oh, right?I remembered why we quit seeing each other. He?d always been a little fishy and a drunkard.? Obviously he still was.

?Nope, sorry,? I said. Then I slammed the door.

A few days later, I saw another old flame while I was shopping at a garage sale. He said he was soon to be married to a lady he met on a ferry boat in Some State North of Texas.

He was shopping for stuff for their new home. At a garage sale. Hmmm?good provider, I thought.

I congratulated him and wished him well.

Finally, I was on-line trying to give? away my usable items (junk) on www.freecycle.org, when someone contacted me about my posting.

Turns out it was the other man I?d been wondering about. He recognized my user name because we used to email political jokes to each other.

When I politely emailed him back and inquired about his health, he sent a three page reply listing all his physical complaints including the pus-filled sores on his swollen legs.

He said he regretted how things had ended with us and asked if I would like to go out with him again sometime.

And if I did want to go out with him, he continued, then could I please come and? pick him up because he was no longer able to drive? And would I please bring the junk ( er, valuable items) ?I had listed on www.freecycle.org because he?d like to sell it on www.ebay.com?

I answered his email and explained that I believed our relationship had ended just as God had intended. Then I changed my user name.

So, thanks to the Universe, I have my answers. Ask and you will receive.

I think it?s time to take up another leisurely pastime besides fishing. I must have been using the wrong bait, anyway, because I just keep catching crap?I mean? carp.

Really.

Good fishermen practice ?catch and release? so others can enjoy fishing and can successfully catch fish.

Source: http://fiftyodd.com/2012/03/all-the-fish-in-the-sea-dating-after-age-50/

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