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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: Snickering Hound

I wonder if she met her dates on street corners by waving at passing cars?

81 posted on 12/08/2016 8:36:45 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: KevinB

“Immodest Cow” might be less flattering, but more accurate. :)


82 posted on 12/08/2016 8:36:58 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Gamecock
"Michael row the boat ashore..." That's just to damn bad Hillary lost ~ NOT!!!
83 posted on 12/08/2016 8:37:28 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Gamecock

Honey...You gonna need a gun to find a partner!


84 posted on 12/08/2016 8:39:01 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Gamecock

However PBA doesn’t bother them...?


85 posted on 12/08/2016 8:42:19 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: KevinB; Lazamataz

gnip


86 posted on 12/08/2016 8:42:32 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Gamecock

Woof

87 posted on 12/08/2016 8:44:58 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Best line of the day.


88 posted on 12/08/2016 8:45:33 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: the_boy_who_got_lost
Yay! Thank you for not reproducing!

She has at least two offspring.

89 posted on 12/08/2016 8:45:45 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Oh, gee...Look what the possible partners will be missing!


90 posted on 12/08/2016 8:47:38 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Troops, ;Our Leaders And Our Nation)
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To: Gamecock

Some guy just dodged a bullet there.


91 posted on 12/08/2016 8:50:05 AM PST by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Doogle

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

August to November 8 is one week? Where do these people learn to write?


92 posted on 12/08/2016 8:52:00 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: pepsionice

I’m surprised the WAPO would publish this drivel.

I guess they’ve thrown in the towel completely, and are writing down to the level of most of their remaining readers.


93 posted on 12/08/2016 8:58:49 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Gamecock

Such an insult to real snowflakes


94 posted on 12/08/2016 9:01:23 AM PST by my job (MAGA)
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To: Gamecock

Comments at the article are great.


95 posted on 12/08/2016 9:02:18 AM PST by doug from upland (Hillary, get the hell off the stage!)
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To: Gamecock

“Enough of this dating unavailable men a half-decade younger than me”

Er... so she has been dating younger men, who are already in a relationship, 6 times a week. I’m not saying she is a slut... but she is a slut.


96 posted on 12/08/2016 9:03:33 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: mumblypeg
WOW! And I thought we on FR were brutally honest! I laughed so loud I thought my boss was going to come in to see what was going on!

This back shot tells more about her than the face upstream! See the tat on the left forearm? Me thinks that is how she sees herself!


97 posted on 12/08/2016 9:04:17 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: Doogle

That isn’t dating. That is desperation.


98 posted on 12/08/2016 9:04:49 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: MEG33

“Oh, gee...Look what the possible partners will be missing!”

Hundreds!


99 posted on 12/08/2016 9:05:17 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: Jamestown1630

They have to fill the pages, but this is just marginal confessions of no real variety.

I might as well write into WaPo and confess that when Crystal Pepsi went away in 1993...I kinda lost my drive to excel and my ambitions to be a Yankee Third Basemen went away. Note, Crystal Pepsi was only around for roughly twelve months, so it was a hard thing for me to accept as they dropped production. It’s just never been the same.


100 posted on 12/08/2016 9:09:14 AM PST by pepsionice
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