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Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner
WaPo ^ | December 5 2016 | Stephanie Land

Posted on 12/08/2016 8:08:33 AM PST by Gamecock

In August, I went on six dates in one week. I had decided that I was ready to look for a partner. Enough of this dating unavailable men a half-decade younger than me. They’d never seriously consider a relationship with me, my two children and our needy dog. No. I wanted to find an equal. A man who wouldn’t feel the need to step in and rescue me. I didn’t need rescuing.

...two weeks later, the election happened. Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather my children in bed with me and cling to them like we would if thunder and lightning were raging outside, with winds high enough that they power might go out. The world felt that precarious to me.

My oldest came out of her room the next morning to show me the money the Tooth Fairy had left her. She’d unexpectedly had to have a tooth pulled, and so bravely went through it that I said, “Just think: You’ll always remember the day you got a tooth pulled with the day we elected our first female president.”

When I told her Trump had won, she protested: “But Mom. You said Hillary was going to win.”

I’ve lost the desire to attempt the courtship phase. The future is uncertain. I am not the optimistic person I was on the morning of Nov. 8, wearing a T-shirt with “Nasty Woman” written inside a red heart. It makes me want to cry thinking of that. Of seeing my oldest in the shirt I bought her in Washington, D.C., that says “Future President.”

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1 posted on 12/08/2016 8:08:33 AM PST by Gamecock
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“”I didn’t need rescuing.””

You need a padded cell.


2 posted on 12/08/2016 8:08:56 AM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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What silly and pathetic people.


3 posted on 12/08/2016 8:09:38 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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Everywhere


4 posted on 12/08/2016 8:09:42 AM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: Gamecock

And nothing of value was lost.


5 posted on 12/08/2016 8:10:03 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Gamecock

Did it take their desire to breathe away?


6 posted on 12/08/2016 8:10:15 AM PST by Scythian_Reborn
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To: Gamecock
"But Mom. You said Hillary was going to win."
It's tough finding out your mom is a liar.

Wicked funny piece. Took some sort of real moon battery to write it, and then have it published, oh my!

7 posted on 12/08/2016 8:10:33 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Gamecock

Yay! Thank you for not reproducing!


8 posted on 12/08/2016 8:10:34 AM PST by the_boy_who_got_lost
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To: Gamecock

Six dates in one week....????....woof


9 posted on 12/08/2016 8:10:58 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Gamecock

Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner

Somewhere out there is a very lucky guy that never met this nutcase. While wallowing in her own pity party she is allowing that lucky guy to go on with a great life.


10 posted on 12/08/2016 8:11:18 AM PST by JayAr36 (Call Caterpillar to get the bulldozer ready. Swamp cleaning coming.)
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To: Gamecock

Somewhere out in this world,a guy just dodged a bullet.


11 posted on 12/08/2016 8:11:41 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Gamecock

Ugh. People like this make me cringe.


12 posted on 12/08/2016 8:11:43 AM PST by grimalkin (Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Gamecock

And just what does this loser think she offers? She is unattractive, divorced, 2 kids, and a flake. Not even sure she could even attract a pajama boy.


13 posted on 12/08/2016 8:11:44 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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....and she’ll slog through the rest of her lonely life wondering why no guy will come near her...

Even those half-decade younger guys are going to get pretty scarce as the get married off...


14 posted on 12/08/2016 8:11:44 AM PST by Reagan80 ("In this current crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem")
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To: Gamecock

15 posted on 12/08/2016 8:12:14 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Gamecock

Yes but she also shouldn’t procreate either.


16 posted on 12/08/2016 8:12:27 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Gamecock
Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather my children in bed with me and cling to them like we would if thunder and lightning were raging outside, with winds high enough that they power might go out."


17 posted on 12/08/2016 8:12:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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She sounds desperate and Suicidal, I sure hope Protective Services has been notified to check on the Safety of the Children. In Fact if the Presstitute that wrote this fails to Notify the Authorities that Children Might be in DANGER, Shouldn’t it be a CRIME???


18 posted on 12/08/2016 8:13:08 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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They’d never seriously consider a relationship with me, my two children and our needy dog"

Good Lord, I hope not.

I feel sorry for this harpy's children.

19 posted on 12/08/2016 8:13:32 AM PST by wbill
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Good grief. Six dates in one week? Who is taking care of those children and where is the father(s)?.

What a self-centered, sex addled, noodle.

No sense of purpose or parenting.

A typical Hillary supporter.


20 posted on 12/08/2016 8:13:47 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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