I am dating.
Should I pause for effect? Should I put up neon signs that flash girls doing hula dances?
BECAUSE THAT IS HOW EXCITED I AM!!!
I can’t actually tell you how long it’s been since I went on a real date… maybe ten years? My ex-husband was many things, but he was not a planner and not into taking me on dates. While dating, we “hung out” or “met up” or occasionally went to dinner when I suggested it. But as for actually having someone pick me up and take me to a pre-planned destination for pre-planned fun? Yeah… that’s been a long time.
So it was with great trepidation and a lot of skepticism that I set up an online dating profile. I didn’t believe that there were guys out there who still took women on dates. I didn’t believe that people went on the internet for anything other than meaningless sex or flirtations. And really, I didn’t like the idea of my face on the internet as “available.” It made me worry about whether my clients might stumble upon my profile or that my co-workers would read it and laugh behind my back. I thought the stigma would be that I was desperate and weird and probably more than a little creepy. And as for the men I would meet? In my head, they’d all be World of Warcraft fanatics, secretly married, fat and miserable.
I was flat out wrong.
It turns out, there are some really interesting people online. And I’ve been fortunate enough to meet two such people, both of whom want to take me out to a pre-planned destination for pre-planned fun. Me. Divorced, single mom, scatter brained attorney…
Me.
I stayed up late last night, on the phone for two hours with a guy who made me laugh until my sides hurt. Me! Snuggled up to a late night phone call… something I haven’t done in far too long.
I’m dating.
And y’all?
I’m full on giddy about it.