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I am a 44 yr. old female who's been divorced for 4 years. I was married for 23 years; we had 3 beautiful children. My divorce was caused by my ex's third infidelity. Although I'm a professional and have been able to survive financially without any spousal and/or child support, I can' stop being depressed and/or find the way to move on. I know I don't want to be alone for the rest of my life, but since I was with him since I was 16, I don't even know how to enter the dating world. I don't really want to do online dating. I work, attend work related conferences, ocassionally go out to dinner with friends, and go to the gym about 3-4 times per week. I've even gone to a couple night clubs.

 

I decided to post here with the hope of getting some advice. Is it too late for me? Am I too old for a second chance? Are there still men out there who are interested in someone my age? I'm not desperate or anything like that, but I wouldn't like to be alone for the rest of my life.

 

Thank you for reading my post.

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Not too late at all.

 

There are many stories here (me included) of people who have started and re-started late in life.

 

I was married at 20 and five years into my marriage, came home early from work to find my husband having sex with another man. Over the following 20+ years, I had a string of both long-term relationships (the longest being 11 years) to too many one-night stands. Lots of depression, lots of therapy, and lots of thinking I would grow old alone.

 

At 45, I worked the Online Dating with a vengeance (200+ conversations and 50+ first coffee dates). It is a numbers game, indeed. But late last year, at the age of 49, I got married for a second time.

 

Heck, I'm looking at Facebook posts of a good friend of mine who - at 60 years of age - is on a round-the-world second honeymoon.

 

It is never too late.

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