Jives with my experience as a single 30 year old with a stable (government) job, no kids or ex drama, and who only recently (5 years ago) started trying to meet/date women. It's not just that I'm becoming better (I recently started working out and tanning again for the first 6 years with a membership to Planet Fitness 2 nights a week), the competition is becoming worse. I meet the most women on CL. Yes, some of them turned out to be prostitutes which I did not turn down, but I still meet more "legitimate" women that way just because it seems the majority of guys posting there are 20 years old living at home posting ab shots in the mirror or 50 year old living in a trailer park.This kinda jives with what the wife tells me about her friends and their dating situation. Nothing but fucking losers as far as the eye can see. Starting to think that all you need in the area of 30 is to just be established in life and a little confident and you should do fine.
P.S. Fought with my girlfriend. Her 11 year old daughter (about 100 lbs) stepped on my dog last night while he was sleeping and he snapped and bit her. She told me that he is no longer welcome to live in her house. I told her that if she can't live with my dog she can't live with me. I started looking for a new place to live tonight. 5 months dating and 2 months living together still makes it my longest relationship, so I'm not counting it as a total loss. I'm less heart-broken about this girl than some of the other shorter relationships I've been in. I don't know if I'm becoming a colder person or if I just never felt as close to this woman as I had the others. Still, I've felt pretty shitty all day, I just don't want to dwell on it. I think my expectation for the relationship wasn't coinciding with the reality of the situation.