Rope bottoms · Manhattan, New York
Sixty three, thirty years married, and starting again in August
Pinned as sixty_three_single
- Wants
- an unhurried partnership with somebody who is also not starting from nothing
- Rope so far
- Thirty years, one husband, and no idea how anybody meets anybody now.
- Around
- Manhattan, New York
We were married thirty one years and this was part of it for the last twenty two. He left in February for somebody he met at work, which is such an ordinary way for it to happen that I have not even been able to enjoy being dramatic about it.
Sixty three, Manhattan, and completely at sea. I have never dated as an adult with a phone. I have never had to describe what I like to a person who does not already know. I have not been to a social gathering in this on my own since the nineteen nineties, and the one I went to in May was full of people being kind to me in a way I found unbearable.
What I have is thirty years of knowing exactly what I like and how to say it. What I lack is any idea how you get from a message on a screen to a person in a room.
So I am looking for somebody who is also not at the start of their life. Ideally somebody who has had one long thing and knows what that costs and what it gives you. I want a partnership rather than an experiment, and I would like to move slowly, and I would like to be taken seriously.
Not looking for anybody who wants to hear about the divorce, which is dull and recent. Not looking for a man who finds a woman of my age with experience novel. And not looking to be anybody's second chance at something they missed.