Muse933277 wrote:
Be realistic and stay in your general looks league and age range.
If you're a 40 year old overweight and unkempt looking man, would you really have a shot with a 21 year old 10/10? The answer is no.
BUT you might have a shot with a 35 year old average looking plain Jane.
The problem is that I missed out on dating young women when I was young. Women my age have had all the kids they're going to, and those kids are already in high school or college. I'll have missed out on knowing them when they were little. Additionally, a woman who's been a parent half her life is so far removed from where I am in life for us to have anything in common.
Aside from being overweight, I think I'm okay looked. Everyone still mistakes me for being 30. And women have complimented me on my looks, especially online where all they see of me is pictures. But every time I meet someone she realizes that I'm some kind of weirdo and loses all interest.
I met a woman at work years ago. We hung out and did a lot of thing together. And really liked her. She was overweight, a single mother, and two years older than me. She was what you would call a "plain Jane", but she was highly attractive to me. But of course she only saw me as a friend.
Someone's wife or girlfriend might seem like a plain Jane to you, but they could share a strong bond and enjoy each other and find one another highly attractive. While another woman that's in the same "attractiveness bracket" by conventional standards is not attractive to him at all. It all comes down to having the right chemistry. This is something many people don't seem to understand in these discussions.
When I was younger my standards were perfectly reasonable and would have been completely realistic for an average NT.
But those same standards are no longer reasonable now because of my age. Hence why its too late. The only options that would be realistic for me at this point in my life are only the ones I don't want.
And by the way, I already tried settling for an ugly women that I liked nothing about. And she turned out to be an abusive sociopath who targeted me specifically for my vulnerability. Such a woman always was the only realistic option for a wretched desirable like me.