She explains to a friend that it’s not so much that she wants to be with younger guys, it’s just that the guys her age are all “broken, gay or dating younger girls”. I have a friend 53 who’s been a single mom for as long as I’ve known her, nine years now. She is not an unattractive in the least, taking yoga and spin classes. Her son who just started high school. Over the years I’ve met a couple of the guys she went out with for a while. One seemed nice enough to me. However, according to her, whenever they were “together” she thought he was going to completely sever her spinal cord. She nicknamed him “the biter”. Another one of her beaus apparently was an alcoholic and would get completely bombed whenever they went out. (She hated that). She kept him around for awhile though. Apparently he was quite the carpenter. (He had a large tool and was very handy with it).

I last spoke to her about a month ago. Now she’s seeing a guy again that she’d broken up with a few months before. She said he was a good guy, however she knew it really wasn’t going to go anywhere long-term. He has a bunch of kids from a previous marriage and just too much “baggage”. I see now that it’s a distinct possibility that she’ll be alone forever. That’s very sad.

I can’t imagine what it would be like for me having to be “out there” again and start dating- with all that entails. If you believe what was said last night on the show, I’d be competing with women half my age- women who’s boobs still point north and who’s short term memory was still intact? I don’t think so. Just the thought of that is extremely daunting to me. In addition to making me laugh, Cougartown made me realize just how lucky I am. I think I’ll show Doug some “appreciation” before he heads out for Dallas. Today’s trivia answer- He’s the voice for all AOL greetings.