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I am not going to dress this up, because I do not have the words for it yet

Posted as not_dressing_this_up, 26 August 2026

Looking for
a plain conversation with somebody who has been doing this for years
Experience
None. Six weeks, three conversations, no conclusions.
Around
the city centre, Glasgow

Everybody on this board says what they want in a sentence and I cannot do it. Not because I am coy. Because I do not know, and I am not going to write a confident paragraph to fit in with the tone of a board when the honest version is that I have been thinking about this for eleven years and have never once said it out loud.

Forty, the city centre, no experience of anything here. Divorced three years ago for reasons that had nothing to do with any of it.

What I would like is a conversation that can put up with uncertainty for a while. Somebody experienced who can tell me what an ordinary week involves, whether it takes over your life, and how people fit it round work.

I am not fragile and I do not need managing. I have run a team through two very bad years and buried a parent. I am simply new, and the newness is about the words rather than about me.

Not looking for anybody in a hurry. Not looking to be told I will know when I know. Not looking to send photographs before a proper conversation, which has been asked of me six times and is why my profile has no face on it.

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If this one reads like your own head rather than somebody to answer, the tactics can wait. These three all happen before there is a first match to get wrong.

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