Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

See, you ladies are awesome, lots of friendly advice.

TeeCee - That's a great story. It's good to hear other people met their Significant Other. There's a show on TLC called the wedding story and I'm always like watching the first part and finding out how the couple met. If anybody else wants to share how they met their SO I'd certainly be interested in hearing it.

Bev and Jen, those suggestions are awesome. Unfortunately my town doesn't have either a book store or a coffee shop. They don't read up here and they drink beer instead of coffee

I'm not sure about the classes, I think the only thing they would have would be classes on how to properly gut a fish or skin a rabbit.

There are two small gyms, one of which I did go to occasionally before I got sick, and I guess I should start going again now that I've gradually been better. That however, is one area where I am quite self conscious (guys get that way too sometimes) I was skinny before the IBS got bad in the fall and have lost almost 20 lbs since. Although there are many situations where I've got lots of confidence to go up and talk to people, at the gym right after I've struggled to lift just the weight bar is not one of them

With regards to letting it slip that I'm a pilot, I do try and do that and I am quite tactful about it. There are lots of pilots in this town and they've actually got a pretty bad name, so it doesn't get me brownie points here.

A stitch and bitch sounds like a fun idea though

countrygirl - I haven't tried e-harmony, that may be something I should look into. I did try out Lavalife a bit, but because I live so far away from any big city, (the nearest city over 100,000 is 500 miles away) it wasn't very effective. That site at least was more for people who wanted to meet up on dates. The replies I would get would be polite, but that they were interested in someone who lived near by.

Thanks again for all your suggestions, keep em coming

and I'd love to hear how people met their significant others.

Jamie

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