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Men No Longer Want to Date, Why?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Hodger


    On the online dating for men there was an article in the new york post recently about this to quote some of it .


    " Jeremy Cryer claims it’s much harder for men to find a match on dating apps compared to women, after finding out his female colleague matched with 39 men just two days after joining Hinge.

    Do you realize for guys we have to wait, like, weeks to get likes, let alone a person that we are interested in to send us a ‘like’ … [or] when we send them a ‘like,’ for them to accept it?” he incredulously says to his co-worker. "





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭amacca


    Like another poster said everyone dies alone...I believe that even if you are surrounded by a wife, kids, grandkids, your friends, loyal henchman in your motorcycle gang, Bill you play golf with every other Thursday etc ....when it's your time it's your time and no ones walking through that door with you....


    But I'm willing to live and die by the sword...either I get who I want or no one at all....


    I wasn't always this way but really what's the point of compromise in this area of life....I can compromise on a house a car etc...but not this....makes no sense to me...If I had compromised I might be married and have kids at this stage but it's much more likely I'd be split up and pissed off


    In my head if you compromise then the person might as well just be any other product with "features" and at that point it's lost its appeal for me


    Dying alone is a lot less scary prospect for me than settling for someone just because everyone else is married etc .....and then living a life of dissatisfaction with someone (not good for me or them imo, recipe for problems).....I reckon I can be less dissatisfied alone than with a consolation prize if it comes to it...


    So maybe there's a black and blue pill? 😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,775 ✭✭✭✭blade1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    Agreed! 🙌 Some people have told me if their other half was cheating on them, they'd rather not know. I understand the pain of being cheated on and being betrayed is horrific, but I'd much rather know I'm living a lie and being made a fool of than opting for a false 'utopia'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭gameoverdude


    You'll be dead, so I imagine you we be too put out.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭gameoverdude


    That's where I'm going wrong! Must take it off my cv.

    Seriously!? Is that a thing?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    A lot of BS.

    Go out and live your life and forget what sort of 'pill' you are😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭gameoverdude




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Spotify keeps advertising a certain pill to me and I feel like my taste in music is being judged by their advertising system.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭gameoverdude




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    Unfortunately so, plus the standard dic pic, hence why I don't have the energy anymore for dating sites



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    And yet the daycent fellas who don't send dic pics can't even get a match.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,851 ✭✭✭gameoverdude




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I'm starting to wonder if the whole duck pic phenomenon is just the human equivalent of a peacock doing his display to a female who has been cornered and just wants to be left the **** alone. Maybe the logical progression is duck makeup to make the display more colourful. Maybe filters and effects designed just for duck pics.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭amacca


    Always found that a bit odd...I mean fair enough whatever a person is into I suppose....apparently its a big thing.....the attraction must be the in the risk taking?.....


    Lad in college liked to get starkers on 2nd date and wait for the lucky lady to open the door to find him legs akimbo..........I thought it was mildly amusing and a bit odd at the same time.......


    Takes all sorts I suppose....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭amacca


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    I'm going sending this to any nice ladies I meet online from here on in!



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject




  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'd say there's two more.

    Unrealistic expectations, and an unrealistic perspective on "love".

    Both of which have been hyped beyond belief by the media, and society itself. I'm guilty of this myself in my younger years, passing on continuing possible relationships because I believed there was something better, more passionate, more fulfilling, more... whatever out there. And I was wrong. There isn't. Relationships require work and commitment to evolve into something better, and it took me a long time to realise that (not that it came when I was in a relationship, but after I'd burnt bridges)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭kowloon




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Maybe the logical progression is duck makeup to make the display more colourful.

    Untitled Image

    Irresistible to the, erm, chicks, I reckon...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,538 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Here's a question: Is "fighting" in a relationship expected? Lots of people I know would say yes, roaring and shouting at each other, not talking to each other for hours/days, staying somewhere else for a night or two. Apparently, that's all common and expected, according to people I know. I don't mean physical fights, or even the heavy emotional stuff. The shout at each other type of "fights".

    I had 2 seven year relationships, and I had 1 argument in both. First was drink fueled jealousy, second was a simple difference of opinion we let go too far before talking about. Other than those 2, I've never had a fight. I don't understand those that do. And I think that may be part of the problem, that that kind of behaviour is "normal" and to be expected, and this is where the hard work comes from in relationships.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Hodger


    An old house I lived in years ago, the neighbours next door at the time a married couple everytime they would argue among each other I could always hear everything the walls were thin between the two houses; and they would argue and they would be fight an awful lot the amount of times that they would shouting at each other and one time I can recall clothes being thrown out the top bedroom window in the front garden and the husband going out to pick them up and bring back in and the wife storming out banging the front door behind; prob around a week I didn,t see her around the street / estate after she stormed out when she eventually came back the shouting among each other could be heard again. They have since separated in recent years but some couples relationships can be kinda toxic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,821 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    You don't get close to someone and not have arguments. People argue because they give a shit. Frankly, there's something not right about a relationship where no arguments occur. That's just bloody weird.

    But it's not the argument that matters. It's what happens after the air has cleared that's the important part.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,538 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    And thanks for proving my point, what I consider (and should be) abnormal is fighting with the person you're supposed to love, but you (and most other people, in fairness) think fighting is normal... Do ye ever, like, just talk stuff out?

    I think it maybe boiled down to talking really. Anytime I thought there might be something brewing, I brought it up and we talked. And it never got worse. I couldn't put up with the roaring and shouting if it's normal, I'm happy to be abnormal then!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,821 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    People argue, especially people who love each other and are on an equal footing. You argue because you want what's best for each other and sometimes that doesn't coincide.

    BTW, I said argue, not fight.

    In addition, I've been with my wife for over 20 years and married for nearly 12.

    Relationships without arguments are creepy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,110 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    I'm in a relationship myself and we haven't had a serious argument yet, the silent treatment works far better for me as women always win arguments.



  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't think roaring should be considered normal but arguments are normal. It seems completely bizarre to me that a couple would always be lovey dovey and understanding. My girlfriend was even warned by her mother to be wary of a relationship like that because it means the man is using her and doesn't really care, or is giving his care elsewhere.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Some people are just more laid back. Arguments are to be expected but I couldn't be dealing with it constantly. I had neighbors years ago who were always at it. One day I heard an awful clatter and I looked outside and there was broken glass everywhere. One of them chucked a large mirror out the window and it landed on the roof of their car.



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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Constantly isn't normal either. But every few months, you'd expect that people who are around each other all the time will have something come up.

    Spending years without one to me suggests someone is bottling up their emotions.



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