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Archive for December, 2008

New Year’s Eve Update

Just moments after I woke up this morning I received a text from Mr. Potential, “Honey, I’m home.”  (He flew home on the red eye.)  I thought it was funny on many levels.  I sent him a “Welcome home” reply. I’m only working until mid-afternoon today.  Then, the plan is, I’m going straight to Mr. [...]

Gloomy Monday

I love to read.  I think I’ve mentioned several times that I’d rather stay home and read than be on a date with someone I don’t like a lot. So why am I mentioning this now?  2 reasons: 1) To reiterate that I don’t actually enjoy dating.  In fact, I dislike it intensely. I’ve stated this many [...]

Mice and Men (and players, too)

I was really suprised by the comments from my last post.  From what I gather, the general consensus (here, not what I was getting from DM on Twitter and from friends) is that men are fragile creatures who cannot be rushed.  They are easily intimidated and when you try to speak with them once a [...]

Resolution (in my mind)

I was doing some hard core wallowing earlier today.  Sadly I felt the need to share my feeling with the folks on Twitter, which somehow made it worse. What should have been a passing feeling turned into a long, drawn out evaluation of what I was feeling and why. I’d made the mistake of checking [...]

How Many Times Can I Be Wrong (and still keep going)? Redux

In the comments (I get some really great comments, btw, if you don’t read them, you should) Derek7272 asked me what happened to the soulmate guy. So, here’s how the story ended.  One day (I think I was probably 29, but maybe not.  Maybe 28 or 30, as I’ve mentioned before I have a horrible [...]