Didnt you have a divorce before your single situation? Did you have to build your life back to an extent before you could pull this off?
I did. I had a nice rotation before I was married. Married at 28 yrs old.
After my divorce (and even during the final stages of the divorce) I put together a nice string on a rotation. To be honest I went full blow ho for months while acquiring that rotation. Ended up in a LTR and engaged. Dated her for 3 yrs. We ended it. I took about a month off dating anyone to get my mind right. There wasn't any reason to be in the wrong mindset and blow potential leads/plates.
Then I got back on the saddle and ponied up. Minus one sort of relationship that lasted 5 months (and during the course of which I started having serious doubts and started lining up a new rotation) I have been single and spinning plates.
Time wise it could take 3-4 months to get a solid rotation of dependable and high interest women. I'm talking at least 3 potentially 4 that submit and stick around. Consistent sex from each.
However, when you get really good at screening, you can put together a rotation in a shorter amount of time because you'll waste less time on dates you shouldn't be on in the first place and you can focus more on having more girls to screen to begin with.
I'd rather be in the process of screening 5 rather than trying to go on 20 first dates in order to figure it out.
I've had several former plates come back into rotations. I will say that rarely works out because they either feel as though our previous history should streamline the relationship process (wont happen) or they have a sour taste still in their mouth from me dropping them previously. Which leads to shyte tests that I'm not going to indulge in or being accused of only bringing them back in for sex (which I'm not going to deal with either because I dont have to).
I'd rather have 3 great plates in my rotation (high interest, attraction, great personalities and dependable) than 8 or 9 that I know I cant give appropriate time to each in order to keep them around long. That many just leads to me p!ssing them off and them having bad feelings. Never a good thing.