Real stories about dating and relationships in New York City. Truth is more interesting than fiction.

Waste of Time

I got in a while ago from tonight’s date. It was a complete waste of time and energy. Worse than that, really, it was a bad date. The kind of date that makes me want to stop trying, to stay home alone and read every night. He was one of those inappropriately arrogant blowhards. I [...]

Practicing What I Preach

I had plenty of time yesterday to write about my date with bachelor #1. I just didn’t know what I should say. It was a pleasant enough date. He’s a nice guy. He’s from Ohio. (I was watching the Daily Show recently and Jon Stewart said something about everyone from Ohio being nice and I [...]

Dispatch from Datingland

Bachelor #2 had to reschedule on me. He sent a very sweet, very apologetic email telling me about his busy week and his obligations over the coming weekend. He told me he understood if I was getting frustrated with him and that he does, indeed, want to meet me very much. I’m cool with it. [...]

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

So now that I’m back to square one with new guys I have a couple of dates scheduled for this week plus a few other guys in the hopper. I thought I’d try something new and give you a preview of this week’s dates. Bachelor #1 is a type that I go for a lot [...]

I Promised You Lies

There are people who meet online and spend a lot of time getting to know each other, via email, online chats and phone conversations and then because they’ve decided that they like each other one of them will travel a long distance to meet the other. Then if they like each other they have a [...]