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Men in their 40s keep breaking up with me because they want to have a baby. How selfish.
  • Tough situation

    It's a tough situation out there for the snaggle-toothed crones.

    Last week I had a wonderful 56th birthday party thrown for me by my 21-year-old girlfriend who wants to have a baby for me ASAP (working on that). We danced the night away, then spent the weekend camping in the mountains with her family.

    Shameful, I know, and there is no fool like and old fool, but when I was an impoverished, skinny, acned, young geek of 21, no woman of any merit would look twice at me. Now I am still broke, now fat and old, but seem to be a more desirable property as far as the fair sex is concerned.

    The solution for the LW is to find herself an older man, about 70 maybe--but there are some septuagenarians in great shape these days--who will find her intriguingly young and desirable, a terrific catch, and whose pals will think him a hell of a dog for taking up with a younger woman.

    My dad is 84 and married to a young woman of 62 and they are perfectly happy, except when he nearly croaked having sex last year. I told her to go easy on him.