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I just realized something. That means that just about 10 years ago, dkw, you had a date that made you say, never again! or something to that effect.
Wow, what did the guy do?
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Nah, not if she's stuck to the resolution for 10 years. "That good" might work for 4 or 5 years, but it takes "OH! THE HORROR!" to go for 10.
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He didn’t “get” Bloom County. The prospect of spending the rest of my life having to explain the humor of Opus every morning over breakfast sent me screaming for the door. That was twelve years ago. I dated a few times after that great, tragic breakup, but the magic was gone.
In retrospect, since Bloom County was canceled soon afterward, I should have married the guy.
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NO!!! You'd've run the risk of bringing new "just don't get it" people into the world! You would've had to work so hard to train your children just to laugh when you tickled them. Horrible thought!
Besides, if he doesn't "get" Bloom County, he might be so impaired as to laugh at inappropriate things. Like Family Circus. Or Nancy!
For a more serious answer – no, there was no horrible date. I just realized that I was going out with people I wasn’t really interested in, and making compromises I didn’t want to make to maintain relationships that had no real chance, just because I felt like I had to be in a relationship. I decided I was acting desperate and pathetic and I didn’t like it. So I quit. I decided I wasn’t going to date again until I was happy being single.
That took maybe a year and a half. The catch was, it worked. I was happy being single. I made more friends, enjoyed hanging out with people regardless of their gender or marital status, and generally had a lot more fun than I’d ever had dating. So there never was any real reason to start dating again.
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That's actually quite inspiring. Plus, I know I feel like a better person (more human, more natural) when I'm not "LOOKING" for a relationship.
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The funny part is, almost everyone I tell that story to says some variation of, “You know, it’s when you’re happy being single and not looking that the perfect relationship will just happen.”
Then I tell them I’ve been happily single for 8 ½ years.
No one knows quite what to say to that.
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dkw - Are you offering to lead men back to your scab shack for a drink?
If not, we may have found the root of the problem*.
(*not 'problem.' Singleness is a gift. You're just not using it properly like I would be, by snogging every attractive man within snogging distance.)
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