re: Has the dating scene gotten worse lately?

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Get off of Instagram and TikTok. I know what you're seeing, but it's not real life. If you get a date off of sliding into some woman's DMs, she had 20 other dudes trying it this week. Meet women in real life, it's much easier. It'll help build your confidence back up, too. A lack of confidence is probably the number one attraction killer for women. I find the opposite, there's never been a better time to be a divorced man in his 30/40/50s. Women are fitter than ever, they've been sexually "liberated," they're OK with people knowing there is wine in their tumbler at the baseball game, etc. Target rich environment. In person.

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The problem with dating in your mid 30s now is finding someone who is attractive, doesn’t have kids, and is not batshit insane. As others have said, social media has made women even more difficult to deal with. Especially the single mothers. In my experience. They just expect you to instantly get along with their kid be super stepdad and get along with their baby daddy. It’s a lot of work especially when their kid is a little shitass. Last summer I was playing catch with the woman I was seeing 8 year old son. He is ADHD AF and just over all a spoiled brat. The little bass turd smiled a shite eating smile and then turned sideways and threw the baseball as hard as he could into a window. He instantly ran and told his mother that it slipped. Meanwhile I am still standing there dumbfounded and trying not to go insane. She comes out and apologizes and says it was an accident and all that stuff. Some how I kept my composure. She left and then texted me later that night saying it was really shitty that I didn’t immediately go inside and tell her son that it was ok. I texted her back and said this ain’t going to work. I don’t know if she is so damn entitled that she thought that I should have been lucky to have her son break my window, or if she was one of those crazy ones who likes to pick a fight and loves drama. Either way it was too much for me.