askmenover30

I'm a man in my 40's, moved to a new area and trying to make friends. A guy I've had lunch with a couple of times and we've connected pretty well. I'm not getting disinterested vibes when we're actually at lunch. However, I've invited him to lunch 3 times recently, once each month, and he's not responded. He's responded to other texts. "Hey, I'm going to event XYZ, any advice" and he'd reply. I've run into him at the grocery store twice in that time period and he's been genial. He's never offered/initiated lunch or anything, but that's not new. (No one ever asks me to do things, I'm The Organizer.) I'm getting really, really mixed signals.

How many more times do you try in a situation like this before you "take the hint" and stop?

I've never been much of a cook, but it's something I'd love to try and get better at. I've got a growing family and as much as freezer food is serving them now, when they're older I'd like to be able to cook them something genuinely nice.

Looking for some hidden gems

Sorry for the weird phrasing, English isn't my first language.

I know men can theoretically have kids at whatever age, but there is still a limit to how old you can be to take care of your child.

I guess the answers are going to vary a lot depending on people's familial situations, but curious to see the answers.

Asking as I see more and more people talking about mental health issues, and curious to see if people could share their experiences.

Curious to see if people have experiences to share.

I've been in a relationship for a bit more than a year, everything doing quite well so far, looking forward to advice to how to make it last.

We are already planning to a have a "date night" every two weeks to get away from the daily routine.

One of the downvoted posts in this sub showed up in my feed so I figured I'd pop over and ask y'all a silly question.

I don’t binge eat, I exercise 3 times a week, or as much as my schedule permits having a 2yold, work, partner and social commitments. I don’t drink. Still I get belly fat now that I am 35+. Wtf? Haas anyone solved this? Did you change diet? Sleep more? Exercise differently? Lower carbs? By how much? Please help me lemmee

I don't think I've spoken to a woman on Tinder who is actually interested in dating. The majority of them don't ever reply, the few that do put zero effort into the conversation and often just want money. Once in a while a woman agrees to meet then just doesn't. What the actual fuck? How do you guys handle this bullshit?

Before I get called an incel 1000 times, I am already doing everything right. I'm in therapy, I exercise every day, I eat healthy, I have diverse interests and several friends. I have paid people to review my profile and conversations and everyone agrees I am doing everything right.

Hello everyone,

Just to let you know that I will submit a request to take this community from the current mod, who is known to be a community squatter: https://lemm.ee/post/1040968

My plan is to

• add this community to https://sub.rehab/ to increase visibility to new joiners
• post some relevant content so that people don't see an empty page when they have a look
• once the content is there, contacting the Reddit mods to see if they would allow a post promoting this community

Pinging @godless@latte.isnot.coffee as you seemed interested in this community

Edit: we should probably develop !askmen@lemmy.world first and then move from there