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Need advice...
I'm an older single in the Army. I come home every night to an empty house for four reasons, I figure:
1. My age (in the early fourties, usually feel like 29, sometimes feel like 80+);
2. Where I'm posted (semi-quasi-isolated posting);
3. Taking the civilian population into account, because I'm military; and
4. Being male.
Re #4: It's too bad that if a woman is interested in a guy, she might give him 'signals' that he is expected to see and interpret correctly, else tough titties. The only thing that keeps me going is the work that I VERY MUCH still love, so to keep sane and stop from doing anything stupid I am a bona fide workaholic, all weekends included.
But some days... I make sure my will is up to date.
Any one else out there even remotely in the same boat? Don't care to go to the bar with my buddies (all married) and get drunk, it's boring drinking alone, I pretty much take vacations alone, as being the single guy one can feel like the odd man out.
Looking for ANY reasonable suggestions how to cope. Don't bother mentioning seeing a shrink, talking about it doesn't change a thing.
Cheers. :warstory:
I'm an older single in the Army. I come home every night to an empty house for four reasons, I figure:
1. My age (in the early fourties, usually feel like 29, sometimes feel like 80+);
2. Where I'm posted (semi-quasi-isolated posting);
3. Taking the civilian population into account, because I'm military; and
4. Being male.
Re #4: It's too bad that if a woman is interested in a guy, she might give him 'signals' that he is expected to see and interpret correctly, else tough titties. The only thing that keeps me going is the work that I VERY MUCH still love, so to keep sane and stop from doing anything stupid I am a bona fide workaholic, all weekends included.
But some days... I make sure my will is up to date.
Any one else out there even remotely in the same boat? Don't care to go to the bar with my buddies (all married) and get drunk, it's boring drinking alone, I pretty much take vacations alone, as being the single guy one can feel like the odd man out.
Looking for ANY reasonable suggestions how to cope. Don't bother mentioning seeing a shrink, talking about it doesn't change a thing.
Cheers. :warstory: