Pearl - “Divorced Woman Admits Dating in Her 40s Keeps Getting HARDER” @JustPearlyThings

00:00:00.000 of three i've been divorced now since i mean they can still kind of thirst trap a little longer

00:00:04.060 obviously not like they used to but if they stay in good shape 50s is where it really starts to go

00:00:09.580 they hit menopause code for six years and i recently started dating in march i joined the

00:00:15.180 dating apps i joined a gym i just got out of my house in hopes that i might meet somebody because

00:00:20.080 i want a partner in my life and i haven't done a lot of dating throughout my life so these are

00:00:25.660 my observations after a few months. So dating reiterates to me that everything good is on the

00:00:31.220 other side of hard. And I, I didn't set out to date for a long time because I had my youngest.

00:00:36.760 And when you deal with those like emotional setbacks, they can really take a while to get

00:00:41.940 over. And I didn't have the emotional capacity to deal with that with the young child and going

00:00:46.780 through a divorce, blah, blah, blah. And so now that I do, now that I can take a hit, I started

00:00:51.400 dating and these are setbacks because these things that you get emotionally invested in

00:00:57.000 don't work out and these don't really become friendships because they are like failed romantic

00:01:01.440 interests or partnerships and so you don't continue that yeah it is kind of weird i think

00:01:09.140 dating it's like not normal to go from talking to someone so much to never it's interesting i know

00:01:14.520 people that stay friends with their exes and really never like revisit that i think that only

00:01:19.880 works when it's like beta bucks yeah so i don't know it is kind of weird 2026 and so that hurts

00:01:25.960 whether it was meant to be in your life or not i get emotionally invested i don't know about you

00:01:30.080 but like so so then i face a setback but what i've realized after dealing with months of these

00:01:36.480 setbacks with um things that didn't work out hopes that got high and the dopamine rushes that come

00:01:42.080 along with dating is that even though these things didn't work out and i got my feelings hurt

00:01:46.840 sometimes like that refined me like it just reiterates that setbacks make you a better

00:01:54.140 version of yourself and so when you deal with these setbacks even though i've dated and gotten

00:01:59.820 myself hurt i come out a better version yeah yeah um dating can make you a better person but it

00:02:06.380 usually makes you worse.

Pearl - September 15, 2026