I look at it and say there's a 33% chance that I'm going to last forever in my second marriage.

It's hard to imagine women who don't want to marry for the rest of their life.

They often point out like older men marry more than older women.

I'm like, because the women don't want to do that again.

And a lot of older women don't even want to live with a romantic partner. I don't. I don't. I make that very clear

to anyone on, you know, if I'm starting to date, I'm like, we're not living together.

A friend of mine says you had to kiss a few frogs, and I said, none of them were frogs. They were all great.

I would have to say that, you know, the first lady that I went out with,

I think that she just wanted to have fun with a nice guy,

and I injected a bit more seriousness into the thing than we could

stand.

This is Dating While Gray, the grown-ups guide to love, sex, and relationships.

I'm Laura Stasi.

And no matter what the research says or what advice we get, when it comes to new romance,

I think it's hard not to have great expectations.

When a relationship ends, some people need time to get comfortable with being on their own before they can even think about dating.

And then there are people like Rob.

When I realized I was going to be a single again for what I call my second singlehood, I went down my list of all my guy friends and found out

seven of them had been divorced, never really thought about it. And I just scheduled lunch with all seven

individually and said, tell me what I need to know. And so at that point, what I learned that I'm

distilling it down was that the earliest any of them had remarried was two years and the longest was about five

and there was a suspicion that if they weren't married within five they might be having too much fun to

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