Reply to thread

Maurice, it's another world out there for the under 40s, especially, south o' the border!  You are, may I say, in the happy position of having been well settled for many years with the one you love.  There are plenty of attractive, socially adequate, solvent, pleasant, interesting people who because of falling into a 'difficult' age bracket, living in an isolated area, working long hours, getting over a divorce or bereavement, having moved around a lot or come back from abroad, etc., don't have the network in place to meet appropriate, potential partners.  Not everyone has had the same easy opportunity to link up that people who married their school sweethearts had.  Speed dating and agencies are just outgrowths of the 'personal ads' which have been around for decades.