Do you want to hear the gory details of my dating life? I'd call it my "love life", but that would be a misnomer.
Years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and I was newly single, I was set up with this really nice guy from church. We went out two or three times, and then he stopped calling. Was it something I said? I have no idea. If you are going to stop calling a girl, you should tell her why.
Then I met this cop. He called a lot, and we went out a couple times, and he seemed Perfect. He decided to stop calling, too, but he told me to my face. I respected that. I found out about a year later that he was sleeping with every willing woman in the valley. He was always appropriate and a perfect gentleman to me. I was apparently not the sort of woman he was used to. ("used" being his modus operandi).
There was the German-cowboy-turned-stalker. He was interesting, in a way. Freaky, but certainly an anomaly.
Then I fell really hard for a man and dated for a Looonnnnggg time. But I'm not a perpetual dater. I am more goal oriented than that. If dating is IT, then I don't want to play. I would like very much to marry again, and that is the only reason I date at all.
Dating is time consuming, emotionally traumatic, and expensive. When it happens.
And that brings up another point...
Where are all the good men?
Every one of the above-eviscerated men was a good, Christian man in the right age group. Every one of them voiced honorable intentions. Each of them treated me with respect. They were each reasonably attractive, and displayed various degrees of intelligence. And nothing came of any of them.
Should I be looking for a different sort of man? One like this, perhaps...
This guy has potential!
1 comment:
Well, I think he has more possibilities than Roland (whom is an avowed communist).
A German cowboy, now that one is interesting. I would have made him take a test and tell me whom Hop-a-long Cassidy was, wrong answer - no date! If he knew whom Sergi Leone was, no date either!
I have known a few police whom were more than friendly towards me, but most of them had mouths that would have made a seaman blush. They all want to be Eddie Murphy-ettes, I think.
What do you call a long time? I would think 3 years to be a minimum for just becoming best friends and getting to know a person!
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