This blog has taken many forms over the course of the last few years. What once started as a blog about my goal to run a half marathon turned into a blog about my divorce and how I went from a devastated blindsided wife to a strong, resilient single mom. And now there is a new phase in my life I have entered into and that is Dating.
I never really "dated" when I was younger. I didn't go on dates. It just so happened that the boyfriends I had were people that I knew and we just started going out and becoming an item. When I met TGIM (The Guy I Married) we didn't necessarily date. We just kinda went places together and it was just implied we were boyfriend and girlfriend.
Well, now I'm dating.
My friends convinced me to go on dating websites in hopes of "getting out there" and meeting someone. After much research I settled on two sites: Plenty of Fish and eHarmony. POF was free and eHarmony you have to pay for them to match you to the what they say is the right person based off some long questionaire.
I decided not to use my real picture of POF because any time I did a search men would come up that I worked with and I was less than excited about anyone knowing my business in the dating world. No, I wasn't Catfishing anyone. I found a picture of a girl that could be me who was wearing sunglasses and her face was kind of obscured. My profile on POF was snarky and littered with sarcasm. I wasn't going to take this online dating seriously, but men messaged me and so began the adventure into "Meet-ups".
I call them Meet-ups because they're not dates. I am putting on my cute jeans, cute shoes, my signature cami and black blazer, expensive lip gloss and meeting at stranger somewhere. Half the time I didn't bother even shaving my legs or armpits because I knew none of these Meet-ups would pan out. Why? Gut instinct. I have some of the best gut instinct in the gut instinct business.
Just like when I was buying my house I could tell from the pictures and little blurb about it whether I would like it or not, I am the same with the men on these sites. You don't have to give me much for me to know whether I am going to like you or not. It's mostly NOT.
So, in these next several posts get ready to meet the men of the online dating world.
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