Every tme I have said something like this, I have been made fun of on this site. Yes, I am single. I will probably remain so. Not by choice, but due to necessity, safety, and reality(the school of hard knocks is a good teacher).
I am at the point that I, too, have given up on finding a good, loving, faithful conservative woman.Too many times, I have been decieved in the past, and have paid with heartache, and pain. SO,I am to the point, where, if God wants me to marry, He will have to send someone into, or back into, my life. Because, after some of the hurt I have experienced, along with others I know, I would rather touch the high voltage anode of a big screen tv, and get knocked on the floor, half-unconcious, for several minutes, than to ask a woman I really do not know, for a date nowdays. That may sound like I am crazy, but the shcok only hurts for a little while, at the most a couple of hours, but being decieved by someone you care about can scar your heart for YEARS.
BTW-- I am sure some women feel in a similar way, as I do,as this is NOT just a thing women do to men. My sister, who is a couple of years older than me, has also given up. We both feel that we will be alone, until we die, or are raptured, whichever comes first.
People today just seem to see each other as a "means to an end", men and women both. SO, it is no wonder, that it is hard to find a faithful, loving partner nowdays.
And NO, I will NOT take on a foreigner,(go to another country, to find a mate, and bring her back here) If I cannot find a decent, caring woman here in the US, and in the area, then, I will just supress the need for one, and stay occupied with other interests.
I do not want to again be used by a woman, just to get another man to notice her, or even to steal him from his steady girlfriend. I want a realtionship based on love, and will not just be another notch on a woman's bedpost.(I have had several woman tell me, that they expected sex on the first, or soon after ,date, and when I told them I could not accomadate them, they wanted nothing to do with me)I am sure most of the women here will say "no woman would do that", But I SWEAR, it does happen, nowdays.
SO, the conclusion I and other men have came to is, just forget it. It is not the funnest decision, but in the long run, it may be the safest one,, and the less painful one, over the long haul(case in point:: A man would be better off single, than to marry a woman, who only acted like she liked him, for financial, or other reasons, and then she would soon depart, saddling him with her bills and such). LIkewise,most women would do better, than to end up wiht a man like many I know, who think of women as"objects of entertainment", and are not what I would consider decent men.
In short, the dating situation today, is hopeless, unless you, as a man or woman, want to be used, and then, discarded.
NOW__ go on, and call me names, like usual.
I will never give up my search because their is no other alternative in my mind. After three bad ones in a row I took a break from even looking, my risk tolerance has gone up again so I am out there looking a bit more now.
Turn it over to God. He was the original Matchmaker, so don't be surprised when it happens.