Whether by blood or by affinity, family is everything.
We trust you will have the opportunity to spend quality time with your family this weekend.
And for those family members living in other places, thank goodness for Skype, Face Time, Google Hangouts – and good ole telephones!
Join in the Fray: Which family member or friend will you spend time with (or contact) this weekend?
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Michelle Matthews-Calloway says
September 27, 2015 at 3:04 PMJeff, seriously??? This “author” spoke to six women. SIX – and then she wrote this entire article based on the opinions/experiences of SIX. WOMEN. I could say more, but I won’t bash her. Giving you The Look, though. *_*
Michelle Matthews-Calloway says
September 22, 2015 at 10:44 PMHmmm . . . I am going to read this and come back and comment.
Jeff S. says
September 20, 2015 at 7:57 PMI cannot find the 84% quote, will keep looking, but here,
http://www.nairaland.com/2035469/reasons-why-black-women-dont
2 ouf of 3 are not attracted to white men.
Michelle Matthews-Calloway says
September 9, 2015 at 10:35 PMJeff, where are you getting this 80% number from? I’m curious. We have over 26,000 fans on our Facebook page, and a number of people in our group – the majority of them women. They all want to date and marry interracially, and bemoan the lack of non-Black men to date and marry! And guess what? Our 50+ group is the demographic that experiences the deepest level of despair, because they believe their age severely limits their options. What gives? Where are you getting that number from??
Jeff S. says
September 8, 2015 at 11:37 PMNothing else but hope. Like i’ve said elsewhere, when over 80% of black women have an “over my dead body” attitude about daring white men, period (not even accounting for my being very non-mainstream), odds aren’t very good.
Michelle Matthews-Calloway says
September 8, 2015 at 5:38 PMYes, I meant chances. Sorry about that. And as far as your chances – keep hope alive! 🙂
Jeff S. says
September 7, 2015 at 12:37 PMMy aim is high, i’m not so sure about my chances. I think you meant chances, not changes, right? I’m always changing, hopefully in a better direction.
Michelle Matthews-Calloway says
September 5, 2015 at 12:06 AMLOL at your description of the “old ladies” in your group! Hang in there; you’ll meet someone. You live in a great area so I believe your changes are high.
Jeff S. says
September 3, 2015 at 12:11 AMMichelle, the women in my garden are all old ladies, though none of them qualifies as a “little old lady.”:-) Most are coupled, none would remotely fit my music side. None of them are women i feel attracted to, probably to some extent to personality traits i’ve come to know regarding them. None of them is black, that’s probably an inhibiting factor. There are some black women involved in the bigger garden, but not in my project, i hardly ever see them, and they’re partnered anyway. The music community is changing, as i’ve noted, at least one new woman, though she’s there because of her partner. Of course, there are always friends of friends of friends,….. Like i said, who knows? Odds are that if you are supposed to meet someone, you will do so by doing something you like. I do regret not taking chances in the past due to social and familial constraints. but …. water under the bridge.
Michelle Matthews-Calloway says
September 2, 2015 at 11:28 PMJeff, those are great relationships, each connected to a worthwhile pastime like your music scene, or endeavor like your community garden. You know, I read a article concerning the best way to meet a significant other. The #1 way was to participate as a volunteer or participant in a social cause – your community garden fits perfectly. The premise is that you not only meet like-minded people, you meet people who, like you, are passionate enough about the cause to participate. Please don’t tell me the women in your community garden group are all little old ladies? 🙂
Jeff S. says
August 30, 2015 at 7:42 PMMy families these days are ones of affinity. My most primary one is the “family” i see at weekly musical events, usually Wednesdays but first week of each month it’s generally Friday, as per this coming week. I’ve discussed this recurring event in other topics. I also have a “family” which i joined in early ’09, we do a community native pant garden, get together the second and fourth Saturday of each month and on special occasions as well. Today, i went to the garden by myself, to be with my “family” of elations in the plant world. We all live on the same piece of rock which circulates around the sun, so it’s good for us to establish communications and community of a sort, non-verbal communications of corse.
Not that i wouldn’t absolutely love to be sharing all this and the rest of my life with a special person. I have my doubts i’ll ever find her at this point. But one never knows.:-)