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This column's topic: Older single men might want to avoid dating older single women who love horses. Too much dating baggage.
Avoid Single Women Who Love Horses
I've often recommended to older singles that before launching themselves back into the dating scene, they should make a list of the qualities they seek in a mate.
The list need not be long, just honest. Qualities we might include: trustworthiness, kindness, respect, affection, respect--traits like that.
We might even include qualities to avoid--a person who is selfish, argumentative, drinks too much or who has too much dating baggage.
My friend Bruce in Laguna Beach, Calif., suggests another quality men might want to avoid: Women who are into horses.
Whoa, you shout. What's that all about?
Bruce speaks from experience. He says, "I've been involved with two women who would rather spend time with and/or give more consideration
to their horses than a prospective relationship."
He added that he had just met a third women who hangs out with horses; he immediately galloped away from her. I suggested that he may be looking for love
in the wrong place-around the stables-and might be better off seeking women in bookstores or in the produce section of his local supermarket.
I asked him what the problem was. Bruce explained: "Because the elite of these women look EXTREMELY good in those tight riding pants (like the one in the
Anthony Quinn, Kevin Costner movie 'Revenge,') many of us guys will tag along into our new job as groomer, poop-shoveler, horse-truck driver (sometimes at our own expense)
and only the Great Spirit knows whatever else."
Bruce related an experience with a horse woman. "I assisted a voluptuous lovely in delivering her horse to Winchester/Rancho, California, for a week-end
'seminar' in hunting and jumping. When Saturday was over, she asked me to spend the night in her motel room because 'the drive home was too long.' Later, the wide brim of
her hat knocked out one of my contact lenses while dancing at a cowboy bar."
And then, the plot back at the motel thickened: "Guess what she did when she emerged from the shower and sat on the bed wrapped in a towel?"
I was all ears.
Bruce said, "She telephoned her husband."
After closing my mouth in shock, Bruce continued the story, "She told him where she was, that she'd be spending the night,and yes, that I was still
with her. My expectations for the evening changed in a hurry. I muttered to myself, 'Why don't you just tell hubby what my name is, what hotel room we're in, etc.'"
Bruce added, "It turns out the marriage was an arranged one for her residency status. Nevertheless, her horse took priority over any guy."
Bruce capped off his reasons for avoiding women who love horses. "I knew a lady who was still making payments on a DEAD horse. Some would
rather ride a horse under any scenario than be with a lively guy."
We all are saddled with dating baggage, in one form or another.
So guys, when making your list, you might add: "Avoid women with horses, whether they're
single women or not."
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