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Today (February 15, 2025) is Singles Awareness Day. National Singles Day is in September and is listed as celebrated on the 22nd, the 24th, or the 26th.

I was without female companionship from age 20 to age 40 (February 1982 to November 2000) and not by choice, so I have been quite intimate with the (good and bad) aspects of single life. (Please, no pity.)

During my lifetime, I was rejected hundreds and hundreds of times by women. This includes 414 rejections by women in a period of 18 months with a video dating service in New Jersey in the mid-1990s, when I was in my mid-30s. Almost all of these women said "unattractive" was the reason for not wanting to meet with me for a date. I was able to go on a few dates, but when around 400 women described me as "unattractive," I will admit that I started to believe it. 🙂

Several years after I stopped doing the video dating, I read in a newspaper that a man was suing that dating service to get his money back because there weren't enough Jewish women from which to choose. LOL 😁

When I moved to Florida in 1998, I constructed a personal ad on America Online (AOL). It attracted my future wife. After dating her for about five years, I was finally able to get married for the first and only time on February 4, 2006, which was 22 days before my 45th birthday.

My wife and I recently celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary. On November 10, 2025, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of our first date. I dated my wife for so long because I was waiting for her to dump me. Obviously, she never did.

I must say that it certainly was worth the long, difficult, heartaching, heartbreaking wait during my romantic 20-year-long "dry spell." My wife is absolutely wonderful, and I am definitely blessed and fortunate to have had her in my life for so many years. I think that being alone for such a long time has made me appreciate her even more.

February 15, 2025, at home

When I was a kid in the 1960s, I liked those spiced gumdrops.

February 15, 2025, at home

My wife is from Toronto.

February 15, 2025, at home