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Just be forewarned, the NW isn't the friendliest place in the world. You could message NWgirl72 if you want to find out more about Portland.
I admit I groaned when I read Portland. First and foremost, do not move here if you do not already have a job and if you can't stand the rain.
As for the dating scene, here's the short version: if you are a decent looking, single man between the ages of 30-45 who actually leaves the house, you can just sit back and wait for women to approach you because despite this being a metro area of over 2 million people, the single male population seems to be either 25 or 50 and older, whereas the single woman range from 22-65.
I admit I groaned when I read Portland. First and foremost, do not move here if you do not already have a job and if you can't stand the rain.
As for the dating scene, here's the short version: if you are a decent looking, single man between the ages of 30-45 who actually leaves the house, you can just sit back and wait for women to approach you because despite this being a metro area of over 2 million people, the single male population seems to be either 25 or 50 and older, whereas the single woman range from 22-65.
I will have a job if I move there and I love the rain, so that settles those two. Haha.
If I move there, I'll be a decent looking single man, though younger than your said age (I'm 23), who will leave the house and approach women. If the single women range from 22+ then I think I should be alright.
I will have a job if I move there and I love the rain, so that settles those two. Haha.
If I move there, I'll be a decent looking single man, though younger than your said age (I'm 23), who will leave the house and approach women. If the single women range from 22+ then I think I should be alright.
Good that you'll have a job. The job market is pretty tight right now. I'm in a 20's and 30's Meetup group. I'd say about 95% of those I meet that are in their 20's are here for school and plan to go where they can get a job when they graduate.
It's gonna take a lot to take me awaaaaay from yoooou
There's nothing that a hundred men or moooore could ever dooooo
I bless the raaaains down in Aaaaafricaaaa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never haaaa haaaa haaave.
I've been with the same girl for just under 2 years. Before we started dating we were pretty good friends. We've known each other for close to 5 years. We are great as friends. We both can act like ourselves around each other without trying to impress the other. This is all great, but in the relationship, I don't feel happy. After being together with her for almost 2 years, I still don't feel like I'm really in love with her. At least not in the way that I should be. I've dated a lot, but there's only been one girl I've dated who I actually felt like I truly wanted to marry any spend the rest of my life with. We were together almost a year, so I do know what the feeling is like, and I don't feel it now.
I often find myself thinking about other women. No one in particular, but I almost have a mindset like I'm single. I don't act on these, as I haven't cheated, but I'd by lying if I said I never thought about it. This girl isn't exactly the smartest girl in the world, and she doesn't have any idea what she wants out of life. Both of these bother me. To top that off, the sex life if awful (actually, just the sex). As far as our relationship goes, she's never bitchy, she cooks, is always there for me, and about everything else you could think of. I just don't even feel psychically attracted to her anymore, let alone emotionally.
We broke up once for a few weeks last November but we got back together after I reached out back for her. I felt like I really missed her, but I'm not sure if it was just missing what was familiar. We do spend a lot of time together. I think a part of me is afraid that if I end things with her, I'll be alone. Or that I won't find someone who treats me like she does (she really is great to me). I work full time at a job where I don't really have a chance to meet people aside from those I work with, and there are no prospects there.
I will hopefully be getting a job half way across the country in the next month or so. I've seriously been considering using that as an "out" from the relationship, as she won't be graduating school until next spring.
Have I just been settling this whole time? Should I end it and just try my luck with being single and alone, or hope I get the job far from here and try to start over there?
If you have to ask you probably are but ONLY YOU really know if you are settling or not.
Yes, sounds to me like you are settling. And it sounds like you have a sweet girlfriend. She deserves someone who is crazy about her, not someone who is always thinking about other women whether he acts on it or not. You can't help the way you don't feel about her, but you can help leading her on when you know this relationship doesn't have a future.
I know three ladies from Oklahoma, who are beautiful...
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