Note: Online dating was a really tough time for me. Just after my divorce from the man I had thought was my "best friend" who turned into a nightmare. I'm not exaggerating by a lot. I was not physically beaten but emotionally and mentally torn down and discarded. Only to be (bad word inserted here) over again twenty years after the divorce when he said he wasn't apologizing for anything, after giving me the highlights I already knew and saying he wasn't a great husband. He also let me know he was talking/ seeing other women while we were married. Until then, I had thought that was at least one thing he did not do while we were married. Considering we lived in a one bedroom apartment, I guess I should have suspected more when he stayed up into the night on his computer.

So, I'm still feeling pretty bruised up by it all. Rehashing it 20 years later has not helped. I never did find someone new. I guess it is just as well. I don't know if I could have, or really wanted to try it again. Anyway, yes, the below list is a bit rough on men, but at the time I read it and reposted it, I needed a few laughs. Yes, its at their expense but my whole marriage was at my expense, literally and figuratively.

This is from my old Live Journal posts, about 2005.

Pampurred

15 PIECES OF ADVICE TO BE PASSED ON TO YOUR MOM, YOUR DAUGHTERS OR GRANDDAUGHTERS, NIECES, AUNTS, GIRLFRIENDS, ETC.

1. Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in diapers.

2. What do you do if your boyfriend walks out? You shut the door.

3. If they put a man on the moon - they should be able to put them all up there.

4. Never let your man's mind wander - it's too little to be out alone.

5. Go for the younger man. You might as well, they never mature anyway.

6. Men are all the same - they just have different faces, so that you can tell them apart.

7. Definition of a bachelor: a man who has missed the opportunity to make some woman miserable.

8. Women don't make fools of men - most of them are the do-it-yourself types.

9. Best way to get a man to do something is to suggest he is too old for it.

10. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

11. If you want a committed man, look in a mental hospital.

12. The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40 years. Even in Biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.

13. If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him checkbooks.

14. Remember a sense of humor does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means that you laugh at his.

15. Sadly, all men are created equal.

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Comments

dakitty -

Cute!

I'm really just 'here' to say howdy... It's been a while... What are you up to? (Isn't that what blogs are for, to tell people what's been keeping you busy? lol)

me -

I am keeping busy or pretending to fairly well. The car needs repairs, nothing new there. I am waiting to hear back from various editors. Not news there either. I've stopped the whole online dating process, just got fed up with men in general. I don't think it's really possible for men over 35 to really connect with a woman. We want a companion and they want a battery operated sex toy.

Overall I'm doing ok, still living in chaos and having moments of bliss just to show them all I'm still doing it my way. Bite me. :)

itsdarkatnight -

I'm sure you won't agree, but women are much better, Hon. ;) It's never too late to start looking at women instead of males. :P lol

Liked your post. It was hilarious. :D

-Laura