[newprint]

I am 34 year old male, Baltimore, MD. Read the article. I feel sorry for the both parties. By the time they reach 30, they will be cynical fuckers who don't understand what is family is for. It is impossible to have sex with different women(man) every week and not become cynical to the point, you don't give a damn.

[jonesin]

At the same time, after 10 years of no interest in women and vice versa (I'm 30), and watching all my friends and workmates of both sexes go through so much turmoil in their romantic lives, I've become a bitterly cynical fucker. Of course, I haven't ever used any of these apps or websites - maybe I've been left by the wayside because of it. I'm just not interested in finding someone that way - I've no interest in a random hookup or a programmatic finding of a long-term relationship.

[newprint]

You can't become Cynical fucker. Go through the turmoil. I am 34/M. And had few women in my live. I meet a love of my love from Switzerland, 34F. Nothing worked out, I was left devastated. But it is best experience in my life(35y/o.M). Do it. You will become a better man. Majority of my friend divorced by the time they reach 35-40. They have kids. They have someone to look after AND they have kids that will look after them !!!

[ImSkeptical]

Did you have a birthday between the second and sixth sentence of this comment?

[newprint]

To add to the point. I have couple friends, who are in their 40's. They find women on dating sites (anywhere in the US), arrange the "hook-up", buy the ticket, fly-in, have sex and fly-out. None of them have a stable families. They are highly cynical people. Just fuck and get out. Don't be like that. You will grow older, lonely, without families. Stable family is what you will keep you sane, once you reach 45. (Unless your Erdős)

[CuriouslyC]

I'm sorry, but if you "need" a family to stay sane, that is a sign of an underlying problem, and instead of running from it you should tackle it.

[barry-cotter]

It's totally possible. It may not be the common outcome but it absolutely happens. I do know one guy who appears to be permanently ruined for exclusive relationships but equally one of my best friends easily had sex with over a 100 women before he met his wife, possibly 200. I'm sure Tindr is full of messed up people but that's as much humanity as Tindr.

[newprint]

I wish good luck to your friend. Truly. Women I met Switzerland, who slept with at least football team of men, desperately wanted to have family and another child. She could not comprehend, why I would not propose to her on the 2nd month of of dating. After few months, she ran away, found another men, sent me a pics of her wedding rind, another man. Soon her engagement fell apart. People become cynical to the point, they don't understand what is going on, what is relationship is for.

[Overtonwindow]

36 in NoVa and I agree.