Letters to the Editor
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Cast the net a little wider
It sometimes seems that the most plentiful commodity in the world is a-holes, but dating is a numbers game. I haven't calculated the ratio, but if it's a, say, 10-1 ratio of jerks to great guys out there, you have to date a fair number of men to get to the good one.
And the good one might be 35. Or 60 (you could be the hot chick to a 60 year old).
Whether they're spoiled or not, if a man wants kids, he wants kids. It does seem like a lot of men in their late 40s and early 50s (and older) are wanting families, which is understandable. Too bad they didn't deal with this earlier, but c'est la vie. (I say this not for the sake of the woman, but for the kids -- I speak as the child of a man who was 53 when I was born and would be 104 now, when plenty of my friends still have their parents.)
If you're going to date, you're going to face rejection and heartbreak in the hope of a really big payoff at some point.
But your odds are better than in Vegas, so why not keep trying?