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

Posted on 12/06/2016 3:45:59 AM PST by C19fan

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. But I knew deep down that was only partially true. I often felt the sort of loneliness that settled in my stomach, starting from a chaotic afternoon with my children, lasting well into the night when I pulled covers tight around my chin.

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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dating; trump
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To: C19fan

I feel that same way. Ever since Trump’s election, I haven’t felt myself. It’s stolen my sense of normalcy and easiness that I had before. From the moment I wake up and have my coffee until I settle into bed after a long day of caring for my family and struggling to reduce my carbon footprint, I simply can’t get used to winning this much. I feel guilty for winning this much. I don’t think it’s supposed to be this way.


61 posted on 12/06/2016 5:22:44 AM PST by RightInTheMain
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To: C19fan

Yet another reason for the men of America, at least, to thank gooodness for Donald Trump.


62 posted on 12/06/2016 5:23:16 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: xp38

I hadn’t thought of that angle. She very well could be going on 6 “dates” a week.


63 posted on 12/06/2016 5:23:27 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: C19fan

What this lady needs is a man in her life, not a fellow snowflake who’s crying himself to sleep every night because Hillary lost.


64 posted on 12/06/2016 5:25:39 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: C19fan

Her loss is men’s gain.


65 posted on 12/06/2016 5:34:18 AM PST by IronJack
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To: C19fan; All


After reading all of your wonderful comments, I decided I didn't want to read "Debbie Despondent's dreary Diary."

Question:



Do straight women also look for a partner , instead of a man, mate, or a boyfriend, husband?

Heretofore, I've only heard lesbians and homosexuals refer to their "mates" as their partners.

66 posted on 12/06/2016 5:36:59 AM PST by onyx (PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S VICTORY DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: loucon

That’s just a matter of adding another tracking block service list to the add-on ad-track blocker extension in my IE tools.....I’ll look if brave.com has a list I can add to it.

You get the same message that I did from wapo, right?


67 posted on 12/06/2016 5:37:05 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Tax-chick

“I scrub lizards with a toothbrush.”

I have to admit that that is a sentence I never thought I would read.


68 posted on 12/06/2016 5:38:17 AM PST by IronJack
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To: C19fan

You don’t have to read very far to understand why she’s a single mom.


69 posted on 12/06/2016 5:38:29 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: C19fan

My first reaction. . . .the poor children.


70 posted on 12/06/2016 5:39:16 AM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: C19fan

Sounds like ole Stephanie needs more “rescuing” than she realizes. But that’s OK, she’s saving any potential partner having to deal with her and her “issues.”


71 posted on 12/06/2016 5:39:36 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Robert DeLong

With a sweet personality many men would be happy with a woman who looked like that.


72 posted on 12/06/2016 5:42:12 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: C19fan

Maybe she looks OK from the back.


73 posted on 12/06/2016 5:44:06 AM PST by Stentor
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To: C19fan

The presstitute stridently chased away he husband and is now damaged goods. Hi maintenance damaged goods that includes an unloved and needed dog aren’t really marketable


74 posted on 12/06/2016 5:46:26 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: C19fan

No quality man wants any part of that.


75 posted on 12/06/2016 5:46:45 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: riri

Yet another LIB loser bites the dust. Bwahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.


76 posted on 12/06/2016 5:47:47 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: C19fan
It's difficult to know which is more disturbing; the author's self-obsessed neurosis, or the fact that a major newspaper published her resentful yammering.

Really, what can one do but point and laugh?

77 posted on 12/06/2016 5:49:43 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: freedomfiter2
With a sweet personality many men would be happy with a woman who looked like that.

She's not unattractive...about halfway between stunning and fugly.

78 posted on 12/06/2016 5:50:41 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: COBOL2Java
...or that Kathy Bates look in "Misery".

Leni

79 posted on 12/06/2016 5:51:46 AM PST by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!)
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To: onyx

Years ago I was at a conference for work and the hippie couple running one of the workshops introduced themselves as “life partners”. I think it’s an “enlightened “ way for the smart and superior straight people to let everyone know that they don’t need marriage as it’s “just a piece of paper “; they are at a higher level of understanding and commitment.

Plus-marriage was instituted by God, whom they have also rejected.


80 posted on 12/06/2016 5:55:22 AM PST by NorthstarMom
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