Oldest swinger in town

Life is great when you're in your early to mid twenties. You have lots of single friends to go out with or bump into when you're already in the pub/club. Well, you better make the most of it, because unfortunately, it doesn't last! As the graph above shows, your number of single friends decreases as you get older. OK, you could make new, increasingly younger ones, but people tend to stick mainly with their peer group from school/home/college.

As you reach your mid to late twenties, they start dropping off the scene as they meet their Miss/Mr Right. Suddenly they want to spend the night in with their beloved or perhaps they have to spend the weekends travelling to be with their amour. Next thing you know, the wedding invitations start arriving in the post. These are great days because your dearest friends are committing themselves to a life of blissful happiness with their dream wo/man. Plus, there are invariably friends/relatives of the bride/groom that you haven't met/scored with yet!

Once you get to your mid thirties however, most of the weddings are behind you and your social circle has diminished considerably. You have only a small squad of single comrades left, where one there was a platoon! You'd like to go out as often as before, but it's hard to track down one sparring partner, never mind a posse. It only takes one or two solo missions to realise the futility off that approach. Where once you used to bump into friends at every turn, now all you see are silly young ones. My friend, you are now one of the oldest swingers in town! At the time that you probably most need to meet someone, it becomes harder and harder. Thank God for the Internet - it almost makes up for the lack of arranged marriages (in the West) these days!

Not as many single people go to the raft of Christenings that you now attend. You even begin dreading the occasional wedding that comes up as you're now the odd one at the table of couples. The world suddenly feels very couple oriented and you're probably being discriminated against by your married friends. Groups of couples go off on holidays, but you don't quite fit in now, do you? You wonder why your married mates envy your single life, but those faraway fields are always greener, aren't they?!