Single ladies

Sword fight! https://media1.tenor.com/m/FZi3lxxGp3cAAAAC/wet-hot-american-summer-dick-sword-fight.gif

Does asking like that really work? Kinda curious, even though I'm quite happily taken. Maybe I don't understand modern "flirtation". Soooo... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY

I'm at an age where I'm ready to settle down but I have standards so I want to get to know women in the US or Philippines. Been on Reddit, bumble, tinder, Facebook, and real life events meeting people. It's become an era where alot of people do not want to connect and get to know each other. I'm not a bad looking man at all (I'm a dad bod guy but it's not as bad as I thought before), and it's a struggle to even get a phone number nowadays. Everyone has multiple options of people to keep them open which I understand why but also it deprives the need to bond one on one with a single person to make it special. It "depersonalizes" the connection to be more of a automated process like a revolving door. Tell me if I'm just straying away from the point here, but I miss this site where people weren't afraid to connect. I fucked up years ago fucking around finding out instead of being serious with women here. Now I'm paying for it waiting around too long by struggling to even get a mutual exchange in texts. Tinder, bumble, and all the dating apps killed the experience and magic of it. So if by some miracle this site magically gets back to that I won't take it for granted again.