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At this stage in my life I have simply given up and am pretty ambivilent about the whole dating thing.

I feel exactly the same way.

I don't know if I'm quite part of this club yet, but I'm filling in the membership form even as we speak. And I'm only 4 years removed from college...

“I don’t know if I’m quite part of this club yet, but I’m filling in the membership form even as we speak. And I’m only 4 years removed from college...”

Don’t worry if it is a bit depressing at first, you will soon start to feel much more at peace about a lot of things. It is rather empowering.

I don't know if I'm quite part of this club yet, but I'm filling in the membership form even as we speak. And I'm only 4 years removed from college...

If it were me, I'd use this thread to meet other Freepers of like mind...

I don't know if I'm quite part of this club yet, but I'm filling in the membership form even as we speak. And I'm only 4 years removed from college

I did not date and just focused on being happy with life as it was. I met the one woman for me here on free republic after I had been out of college 4 or 6 years (depending on how you count it). My advice is:
1: Get happy with where you are in life either by changing things or changing your attitude as needed.
2: Have a hard and fast list of what you would HAVE to have it a woman so you will know what you want when you see it and not get caught up emotionally and then have a messy breakup later.
3: Make your FR profile detailed ;p
I met my wife-to-be in a thread here and then clicked her profile to find out more. Then, liking what I saw, I PMed her and the rest is history. I still have the exact thread bookmarked. It worked because I knew what I was looking for (had a list) and knew it when I saw it. So I tend to think it is is not so much about how hard you look as being content and settled and knowing what you want for if you do run across it. That lets you be happy where you are but not feel like you have given up 100%.