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I Gave in to the Dark Side of Dating
I Gave in to the Dark Side of Dating
Or at least that's how I feel about dating lately. Here's my latest rant.
I know, I know! "Many wonderful people have found love via online dating sites." So I finally signed up on a free site. But the first couple of weeks the responses I've gotten have been creepy or vague.
Until one, who I've been writing back and forth with for the last three days. But one guy out of 10 actually reads my profile and writes to me about it. One?
Okay, maybe this is what happens in weeks two through three. One, me, can hope that this one true response to my posting a profile might actually lead to a real date. And even more hopes that it's a good date.
In the offline world of dating there's this guy I've been calling Metro, a trail runner who is a bit too effeminate, but according to a mutual friend of 10 years, is actually straight. Yep, still don't see it. He keeps texting me. So Metro and I went trail running on Tuesday and he seriously annoyed me when he scolded me for not running up more of the steep parts of the trail.
It made me cranky.
I told him that being sick in June and having sprained my Achilles last year, there was no reason to push myself up the mountain. I'm not talking a hill here, people, I really do mean a mountain, the one the Observatory sits on. I run this trail often and speed walk up the steepest parts and race down the other side. One of my pure joys in life, is to run as fast as I can down steep trails. I smoked him on these parts of our run, he could barely keep up with me and I made him eat my dust. Tell me how to run? Bite me!
But even my crankiness doesn't keep him from continuing to text me. Why is that a man, that gives me an un-affectionate one-arm hug, and only makes weak attempts to find other reasons for us to hang out like friends, keeps texting? I mean he's 48! Has he never figured out the basics of wooing women? (Hint: we like to be touched, hold hands, asked out on a real date, and given a good hug - which would greatly help the wooing process). Or worse has he never figured out that he really likes men? Is that possible? He grew up in LA during the 60s and 70s.
I can't take it. The Dark Side of Dating sucks. And the darkest part of all, it's making me miss Thom again. Just a little, but the feeling is there. Bleck!
posted on Aug 14, 2010 9:38 PM ()
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I think its normal to miss thom... keep at the dating online thing! Unless its eharmony????