Significant Others

[rachelvallee]

I am an odd duck. I spent 4 years volunteering and being closely involved in a tightly knit business organization, and yet, the number of really close friendships I have made from there are very limited and fluxuate. Certainly these are women that I admire and adore and would do whatever I could do to help, but only one or two of them know 'me'.

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[waimeawahine]

I spent 4 years volunteering and being closely involved in a tightly knit business organization, and yet, the number of really close friendships I have made from there are very limited and fluxuate.

That's been true for me almost everywhere that I've worked. I generally get on well with others, and like the people I work with, but develop close relationships with very few.

I replace the people and social atmosphere from my real life, with internet friends.

My online social life more or less augments my real life one.

Working at home has created a huge shift for me, no longer seeing anyone but my son every day…..Which is why I need to walk away from them.

I know what you mean. I work at home for one of my jobs and the net can insidiously seduce one from real life all too easily. I think that I'm able to achieve a teeter-totter balance because I have so many family obligations, because ad sales require some degree of real life interaction, and because my second job is retail.

Time to step back out into the real world and see real people, and date real men

Hell, I'd be open to fake men. In this small town the men are: 1) married or otherwise taken; 2) too young (the older I get, the fewer the available men in my age group).

[rachelvallee]

Well, I fantasized about dating Big Bad Baldy - but thats about as fake as they got. LMAO

Dating is very frustrating.