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Romantic Love After 40 - still possible?

Romantic Love After 40 - still possible?

Or is it time to go full Golden Girls?

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Mar 13, 2023
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I’m currently not in the dating market and not in any particular hurry to dive in. I gather it’s pretty much a hellscape for anyone right now, but if you’re a woman over 40, well, yikes.

Our social capital dwindles at this age. I saw a thing online the other day that someone had reposted from Reddit - some bro saying how women should just have the option to be euthanised after 35 since they have no real value to society after that. And I know it’s Reddit and I know it was a bro but also Jesus fucking Christ there are people walking around out here who actually think that.

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