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Old 01-11-2025, 06:28 AM   #29
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Finding someone on social media is like finding a Rolex at the bottom of the outhouse. Spend time traveling alone. Be friendly, approachable, helpful, kind, considerate, basically the behavior you'd like in a companion. Desperate smells from a mile away. The simple fact is, as we age there are many more available women than available men. Bonus is there's a wider age range for older men too. Relax, give it time. Give yourself the gift of being alone. I travel often alone, but never lonely. If you're having fun, others will want to join you.

Philippines - as someone suggested? Well I have zero experience with that, not sure how to drive the MH there either.
Oh, I do like the Rolex analogy! My single buddy speaks of trying to find a trout in a catfish pond. There are worthy people floating around on line, but just about as prevalent as Rolexes below outhouses, and probably just as accidentally. (I have no social media presence at all and intend never to.)
There is an organization called Parents Without Partners, of which I was a member during some of my decade as a born-again bachelor. It was an enjoyable social resource. There are also church groups. If anyone is caught in grieving and can't move past it, Beginning Experience is a powerful healing experience. Neither of these are as common as Dollar Generals and may take some searching. It wouldn't be practical to travel very far to participate in a PWP chapter but it would be for the weekend retreat that is Beginning Experience.

Supermarkets. Just get ahead of an interesting woman in the isle, stand and stare at the shelves, and try to look helpless.
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Old 01-11-2025, 12:40 PM   #30
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Philippines - as someone suggested? Well I have zero experience with that, not sure how to drive the MH there either.
I was in the navy. We were warned that any place in the world that a wife can find you with the result is being married in less than two weeks.

My advice is to take at least 4 weeks to find a lifelong companion.
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Old 01-11-2025, 01:16 PM   #31
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Going through that now

My wife of 34 years passed away from cancer in June of 2024. We both had just retired and she got diagnosed within 6 months while we were traveling. After 3 years of chemo she said no more and we went back home to Colorado. We did take one last trip to Kentucky to see a son and family. Had to cut it a little short because she wasn’t feeling well and she spent most of the trip back on the couch. A month later she was gone. Now it’s just me and Charley the jeep dog and a new mini Aussie doodle spending the winter in Arizona. All the company I need at this point in time. I do miss traveling with her though so I see your point. At 73 my dogs and I do just fine.
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I joined a ghat group that helped a lot: https://www.griefshare.org/

It is not a dating group and it is suggested to wait a period of time before making life changes.
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Old 01-11-2025, 10:53 PM   #33
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My wife died about a year ago and we both liked traveling around the country. Now she is gone and it is me and my two dogs. I tried dating sites but I found women that were looking for a husband and not some one who enjoys camping and traveling around in a class C motor home. I had a female friend that her and her husband enjoyed camping he died two years ago. We did some camping in 2024 but she also died of cancer the same as my wife. I spent her last few months going for chemo as her friend. Where are the women who are not looking for a husband but would enjoy spending time just talking and living what life we have left. I am in my late 70's and do not want the baggage she has and I have.
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Have you looked into Loners on Wheels? My deceased father-in-law traveled with them after his wife died. He met a female friend whom he traveled around with for years, often in their separate RVs.
My wife passed suddenly the afternoon of Dec 3, 21.

Tough, but I'm still traveling when possible. Over my years, I've spent many without a partner. Talking with friends who had 40 years, 50 years long marriages, they don't know how to live alone and get out of the 'house' and talk to people every day.

Searching for a partner is hard, always has been.

I had 13 years between divorce from my first wife and finding Linda. Most of that raising two teens alone and trying to keep my Navy career long enough to retire.

I know I'm not a great catch, can't imagine what she saw in me. Not particularly looking now. Someone who could fill Linda's shoes will be difficult to find. Our 18 years together were the best years of my life.

I've gone on 'dates' with more widows from my HS senior class in the past three years than while we were in high school. But none are interested in RVing. Most of them thought I was dumb to spend weekends camping at a COE lake with my family back when we were in high school.

Loners on Wheels is nice, at least the group based around the Texas/ Arkansas border.

Met some new friends at large rallies.

And since I'm involved with Texas Good Sams, some of my friends, male and female, have become widows and widowers. Also joined an FMCA chapter in Texas.

I've got people in my life. From a group of us in a Thousand Trails annual site loop, to friends, to my kids, Linda's kids and our grandkids. Those folks at least understand a bit that I'm not giving up RVing as long as I can do so physically. Not making any real long trips in the past three years. Maybe next year.
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