I have a few male friends here in my housing development that we play golf together and have one night a week for poker night, which isn't high stakes, just get together drink and eat a little and bat the bull mostly.
Women on the other hand have been difficult establishing a relationship with them. They ask a lot of questions, some very personal, which I sometimes consider being a bit intrusive. Why is having to know my background so important? Can't they just take me at face value as to who I am now? I dated one women for almost two years and fell in love with her, but when she asked me "that" question, I was turned off. She wanted to now my financial status and I him halled around it and never did answer her. I didn't think it was really any of her business at that time. Had I asked her to marry me, then I would have exposed myself to her, but she all but demanded that she knew my net worth. I live in Alexandria, Virginia in a $500,000+ home. Shouldn't that have given her some idea that I wasn't broke and I wouldn't be asking her for a loan anytime soon? Other than her being nosey, I thought she was the "one." I think she also had trust issues. She told me a story about a man she fell in love with, until he asked her for a $200,000 loan. I think she did the right thing by dumping him.
I'm only in my 60's, so I have time to maybe find the women that I want to settle down with. I have a picture of myself in my dress uniform hanging in the hallway leading into the dining room. When a women sees that picture, it seems to provoke a lot of questions, so maybe I need to take it down. First question always is, "Oh, I see you have wings on your uniform. Were you a fly boy?" That term is passe` and has been for sometime. Calling a Naval, Air Force or Marine pilot a fly boy is almost insulting.
I see you live in Pennsylvania, which is not too far from me. If you ever get down here and play golf, let me know you are coming and maybe we can get together for a round. Your life seems pretty close to mine. As far as I am concerned, I have no relatives. What the few that were my relatives did to my grandparents divided us. You just don't treat your relatives as they did. Loyalty is a thing of the past within families. In today's world, it seems to be all about me. I have two cousins that are brothers and they can't even get along. The one brother shot the other one a few years back because he was trying to make out with his wife. Can you imagine that going on between two brothers? He didn't kill him. I think he shot him in the stomach area and did do maybe a year in the county jail. Some family, huh?