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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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To: Gamecock
Could she be a nasty woman?
121 posted on 12/08/2016 10:24:43 AM PST by armourenthusiast (Support Pat McCrory in the NC recount!)
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To: rdcbn

Another “carousel rider” meets reality.


122 posted on 12/08/2016 10:34:41 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Snickering Hound

So she was hopelessly in love with her man sufficiently enough to create new babies fairly recently (assuming those are her kids) contrasted with attending 6x/week dates just months later. Bizarre.

123 posted on 12/08/2016 10:43:45 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Gamecock

On the upside several cats will be adopted from the local shelter


124 posted on 12/08/2016 11:08:52 AM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Gamecock

She’s a keeper alright! Keep her locked up in the psych ward away from the real world!


125 posted on 12/08/2016 12:35:46 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Gamecock

Good news. Stop their procreation. Next best thing to mercy killing.


126 posted on 12/08/2016 3:14:18 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Gamecock

“men a half-decade younger than me.”

Or as normal people would say, five years younger. Moron.


127 posted on 12/08/2016 7:04:49 PM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: Gamecock

how did she get two kids and never have a partner?

Artificial insemination or adoption? Or was she too choosy to marry the sperm donor? Or did the sperm donor have enough of her crazyness and abscond?


128 posted on 12/08/2016 7:59:22 PM PST by LadyDoc
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>> I didn’t need rescuing.

Indeed. She needs avoiding.


129 posted on 12/08/2016 8:01:31 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gamecock

Good. That means she won’t be breeding anymore.


130 posted on 12/08/2016 8:05:31 PM PST by Rebelbase (Gatlinburg wildfire: over 1000 homes and business damaged or destroyed.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Tats...how feminine.


131 posted on 12/08/2016 8:39:04 PM PST by gogeo (That's my Trumpy!)
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