Y'know, I quit cigarettes cold turkey, made a decision to stop finally and did, and it was not easy, but it's been 14 months so far and I think I've had 2 in all that time.  So maybe it's time to apply the same reasoning to CM.  The locals are either "not looking,"  idiots, or utter horrors so it's not been productive.  Reading profiles in other areas doesn't help.  I've met a few special women,  lovely ladies, but the relationships haven't worked for anything long-term. 

So maybe i should stop looking for long-term.  I had a long happy marriage that ended with her illness and death and I mourn my brilliant wife's passing every day (more so after perusing the profiles here). Beautiful, talented, multi-degreed, she could be either one of the fiercest or kindest people you ever met, depending on the circumstances.  Read the profiles of the women here, boasts of beauty and intelligence, and I know that they are but sun washed shadows on crumbling walls to the memory of my lost love. 

Perhaps it's true what some women here say: they would rather be alone than find someone that does not meet their standards.  None here really meet mine from what I can tell.  No, NOT you, no matter what you may think.  Maybe my New Years' Resolution should be to set this aside long enough for the cast of clowns to change.  Leave all the ladies to the tender mercies of the "Down on your knees, bitch" school of wannabe domliness and furtive cyber thrills.  For most of the women here, it's what they deserve.

We'll see.