Well, maybe not. But a few of you have asked what, exactly, I’m doing. Yes, I’m mocking. Obviously. But is there a point to this beyond the mocking? I like to think so.
Here’s the part that isn’t particularly funny. I’m fairly recently out of a long (~5 year) relationship. We broke up, and then we were kind of trying again, but he really wasn’t. It was about a year of him being really quite awful to me. (I, of course, was a perfect angel.) I’m not over it. He was horrid, but I love him, and that’s my own special hell. Anyway, he’s uninterested in even thinking about trying again, which leaves me stuck with the moving-on bag. I’m told the way to move on is to pretend to move on, and then the emotions will follow.
Hence my looking for a date. Some of these profiles are fake because I’m curious about the sorts of people who will respond — for example, I was wondering if some guys send the same message to everyone. They do. Mission accomplished. But some of the profiles are legitimate, and some of the ads are legitimate, and I’m hoping to find someone who moves me in some way.
Have I? I’m not sure. I’ve been on a few dates. Some of them have gone well and led to other dates. Some of them have been downright ridiculous. There are more in the works. I’m still not sure if I’m going to document them, though. Maybe just the bad ones. They’re funnier, but I’d hate to give anyone the impression that my life is one horrid awkward date after another. I’d also hate for one of these people to recognize themselves in this blog one day; I’m not out to hurt anyone, mocking evidence to the contrary.
So. Thoughts from the peanut gallery?
