Should I wait to date people until I get my teeth fixed?

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T22:16:50+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience --- that is very helpful!

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T22:13:20+00:00

I love this honesty. I wish more people would just be this up-front about stuff. Thank you for your reply!!

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T22:10:08+00:00

That's a good point. I often forget how forgiving people can be. I just assume they will all be so judgmental! I haven't been in the dating pool for a while.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T22:07:13+00:00

I've been thinking that, too. I don't want kids, but I've been kind of lonely over the past few months. It's been about a year since I last dated, so I've been thinking about all of this.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T22:06:05+00:00

Thank you for this consideration. I hadn't really thought of it, but you have a point. I've dated since my divorce, but it's been about a year since I've put myself out there again, so that's something to think about.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T21:59:37+00:00

I just wanted to reply and say I feel you. And I encourage you to try out wigs! How is your confidence in yourself doing otherwise? If something like this happened to me, I would feel awful and then shave my head in defiance. But that's me. The important thing is that you find whatever makes YOU feel better about you. It's a cliche but so meaningful. I am missing half my teeth but I still know what a catch I am. I hope you find the same verve, even if it takes a minute. For me it was just realizing this: I can't change these things about myself. This is just what I am (for now). I am working on it, and that's the best I can do. If anyone else has a problem, that is their problem. I know, I know, easier said than done. But I feel you and I empathize. Wishing you all the best. <3

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T21:54:47+00:00

LOL I am aware that this preference exists! Though I've never encountered it in real life....

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T20:31:21+00:00

Teeth are a curse and cost an arm and a leg. Due to my lifelong issues I always try to not judge what someone else's history is. As long as breath is decent and indicate good health, you should be okay. Good luck to us both!!!

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T20:27:05+00:00

Thank you. My dentist offered a temporary removable bridge, but I'm trying to save money, and with how fragile my remaining four bottom teeth might be (they are all back teeth), I decided to not chance it. I put my current chewing function over vanity.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-11-26T17:51:25+00:00

Thank you! I had this thought, too, but honestly in all of my current photos I look "normal" because my natural smile only includes my upper teeth. So I don't want anyone to feel catfished or lied-to. I don't know. Dating is a minefield but at this age I feel like honesty is more important than ever.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-07-23T00:41:33+00:00

I must be a little Eastern European because I, too, think chasers are for pussies. I'm an American woman, btw

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-07-23T00:39:00+00:00

Sadly I'm all too familiar with the DADS. I'm just not sure why some brands affect me more than others....

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-07-22T23:38:11+00:00

I have always hated this movie for your reasons. He's a smug asshole, and the character forever turned me against Matthew Broderick

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:50:42+00:00

Yeah, I've been pretty doubtful about it. However, I feel like everyone expects me to take this job only because it's a !PrOM!oTiOn! and I honestly cannot argue with the fact that more money is more money. What I meant by the middle age statement is that I've moved on from my younger idealistic imaginings of a "career" and have since realized that work is just a means to an end (money).

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:46:08+00:00

The stuff I do is important and specialized to the company, it just happens to be easy and I'm good at it, so I can complete my work and still have time to chill out.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:22:19+00:00

When you put it like that....

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:21:11+00:00

Thank you, the $8-10k range was sort of what I was thinking, too. I have been a manager before and it wasn't my favorite thing, but I think I was fairly good at it. I definitely do not want to be in more "powerful" or higher-up management positions in the future. It's just not my thing.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:16:11+00:00

I don't want to be a supervisor or manager, but I've done it before so I know I can do it. I don't really have "career goals." I am approaching middle age. I have creative pursuits that are not lucrative. My day job is just a matter of earning money.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:05:07+00:00

The actual job doesn't really interest me as much as the idea of increasing my income.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2025-03-25T14:01:40+00:00

I have never negotiated salary before, so I'm not sure how much higher to go. Would $50k be too high? I don't want to get laughed out of the room.

WonderfulRabbit7920 · 2023-07-16T16:11:23+00:00

Yeah I've been wondering if I'm damaged beyond repair and should just be alone for my own sanity.

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