well it's better than nothing

ambition/dreams... I like someone that is content with the life they live but are always looking to explore the world around them.

I'm central standard time... so when exactly is that?

I feel the love

well bowling alleys, have bowling. Clubs have music and dancing. If you have money and a car, gas it up and go

28 year old guy from Des Plaines Illinois.

Okay, i tried to keep it simple and finally added a blurb.

Rate away

Maybe I should have named this help me create my profile

I know I should put what I'm looking for and what I'm not looking for. I should give some basic information, but what information is valid on an online dating site? I read other profiles to try to get an idea and read the same things over and over, if I want the most out of my time on this site I need to stand out.

Should I write my profile like a resume?

I really don't, at least not at the beginning of those 10 months. I got to go scuba diving off of Cococay, got to take the child to her first day of school, helped pull out her first loose tooth. I have some great memories and I just have to figure out how to not lose site of them as memories and move on.

So instead of going and paying somebody all my hard earned money, i'll just come and vent on these forums, when i feel the need to

I have been on here a week, today is my first day on the forums and I just might be addicted... before today my profile had 0 views, now im at 7. But I have issues don't mind me

would you remind repeating that all Aaronzdad, I don't think i understood

It's not finished, but I'm really not sure how much information I should give away about myself and what I should keep for a conversation piece later...

He deserved it... But combating violence with violence probably isn't the best mix; for the child. A child should not be abused, there is a huge difference between a smack and a spanking so on principle .

That would be interesting...

So what exactly does the mutual match break down anyway? I have a single mutual match and do not understand how she got there

Thank you, I guess my biggest problem is that I identified myself as a family man for nearly the entire time I was with her, I took her daughter in as my own.

Maybe if I let the whole story out (to complete strangers, none the less) that I maybe able to look at the situation in hindsight one day. So here goes.

Last year I planned an extremely romantic get away (cruise to the bahamas) it was at that time that I planned to ask her to marry me, the weeks leading up to that trip she seemed completely turned off and she seemed depressed. We went, and she treated me like a friend more than a lover, so I didn't propose. We got back to Chicago and everything got progressively worse, she started staying at work late (yeah, you know what's coming), she started staying out real late when she'd go out with her friends and by Dec. of last year I was more of a glorified live in babysitter than anything else. On Christmas Day, she told me she never loved me and that she tried to hold on because I treated her better than any man ever has, she left, took her child and moved. A few weeks later I got a call from her telling me that she had been seeing someone from work for the last 10 months and that she loved him.

Love was seriously the most amazing experience of my life and when my heart was broken I felt lost. The relationship I was in lasted just a little longer than 3 years, she was a single mother when I met her, so when she left I lost a family.

It is a depressing story, but it's supposed to be. Life is full of emotional experiences and amazing opportunities, so I believe that I will find the silver lining. I have been on a few dates since the break up, but nothing has come of it because I either tune out or get obsessed with wanting to be in a relationship. So I am either completely uninterested and rude, or overinterested and desperate.

So I guess, what I want to know is how do you go back to being single? It's a different time in my life and I'm obviously not the same person I was when I started dating my ex.

Ahmad