Blue,
I commend you for recoginizing the issue of being in a slump and asking the question before your mouth and dihk co-signed a check your heart can't cash.
You also have to stand up for who you are and stand up for yourself. You have to stand firm in the face of other people trying to change who you are, or to get you to do things you don't want to do. Be your own guy, Blue, and don't be afraid to go after YOUR dream.
I would recommend calling up an old fuhk buddy just to get the motor running again. Unless they start dropping hints about marriage and you being the father of their children, then your question might merit more consideration.
Many of the confirmed single but successful crowd find they have to resort to the young girl route to get what they want -- a "no strings" operation. Sometimes they find they tire of them when they ask the girl where she was when Nixon resigned, and she says "you mean that president guy, right?" Come to find out she wasn't even born until 1980 and believes that all events prior to that date occurred simultaneously.
Flipside, if you're dating a woman who's over 35 and never been married, look out. Either she needs to get married and have a baby, pronto, or there is probably some really good reason why this gal never honed in on a guy, or why no guy ever honed in on her. Either way, you're fuhked. By the time you figure out what the reason is and you're ready to go, you just fuhked up her last chance at happiness and fulfillment.
It's kind of in the middle there where it gets harder to figure. Sometimes women just feel like they want to know you'd want to be with them even if they didn't fuhk you, and once they figure that out, they'll go all night and kinky, too. Others are now looking for a relationship. They don't feel like every guy they go out with IS Mr. Right, only that he COULD be. Once they've ruled him out, it's over and time to clear the pipeline.
Even worse, some women seem to have spiritual epiphanies in their late 20's, and they commit to themselves that they're "not going to do that anymore," or it's "just not what they want" anymore. That's the worst of all, because then nobody has any fun.
Keep searching lover boy!
Anyone else?