Posts Tagged ‘dating’

One of the Most Boring Dates I’ve Ever Been On


2009
12.05

dealbreakers

I’m way too picky, and I am try­ing to be more relaxed about things, but I can’t help it. It’s done with Short Guy after last night. We head to din­ner. It was nice of him to come to my neck of the woods. Men always act like they can’t head this way, so that was a nice ges­ture on his part. We’re there wait­ing for the table, and I am talk­ing my head off cause he is just stand­ing there. I’m talk­ing, talk­ing, and talk­ing. Then, I notice this hot, TALL, black man, and I can’t help but think: Damn, I wish I wasn’t with this dude. What made it worse was that the guy started talk­ing to me when he went to close his tab, and I was kind of flirt­ing too.

All of a sud­den, I feel breath­ing, and we (hot guy and me) look down and there is the short dude.

I cringed when the guy said “your girl did good not spilling her drink.”

I wanted to scream, “I am not his girl!!!!!”

I felt awful after think­ing it, but some­times your sub­con­scious says the things you are think­ing with­out you want­ing it to or not.

We grab a table, and I was already bored and think­ing of all the things that I could have been doing. One thing that bugged me is that he kept say­ing that he is all about rou­tine, and he can’t break that rou­tine. I cringed. I can’t imag­ine being with some­one who doesn’t have a spon­ta­neous body in his bones. He eats the same meals every day. What the hell is that?! I thought there was hope when he said he switches it up, but it just meant switch­ing peas to rice.

Then he starts talk­ing about his entire rou­tine, and why he changed it. I some­times won­der how peo­ple live such bor­ing lives. I real­ized how bor­ing life would be with this guy when I said that I don’t play video games so much any­more cause I will not leave the house until I beat the game. He starts going “Yes!” It’s like dude, it doesn’t mean that I won’t leave the house now. I am a “Get and Go” kinda girl, so you’re on your own if you think I am not going to get the hell up to go somewhere.

Two things about me: 1. I don’t share food and 2. I hate rep­e­ti­tion. With the food thing, I hate when some­one offers you his food just so he can have some of yours. He offered, and I said no. I noticed that he kept star­ing at my food, so after a few sec­onds, I asked him if he wanted a bite. He jumped at it. I wanted to say to him: Next time don’t do the whole fake-me-out “Do you want some?” cause you want my food.

Then, he begins telling me this story. He goes, “I don’t know if you heard it.” When he began, I real­ized I did, so I said, “Yeah, you told me about it.” He pauses and CONTINUES TELLING THE DAMN STORY! I was annoyed as all hell. Why did you ask if I heard it if you were going to tell me any­way?! I just tuned him out and started think­ing about all the cute guys I saw yes­ter­day and today that I wasn’t able to talk to cause I’m hear­ing this guy talk about his bor­ing existence.

He also has this habit of get­ting all high pitch about things. It sounds more annoy­ing cause of his south­ern accent. Every time he gets high pitch with it, I wanted to shake him and tell him that girls don’t like men with high voices. He is clueless.

He walked me to my car, and I hugged him and back off before he kissed me. I felt like I was on a Sein­feld episode.


The Dreaded Question


2009
12.02
I am not looking forward to this.

I am not look­ing for­ward to this.

Soon will come the time when I travel back home to visit fam­ily and friends for the Christ­mas hol­i­day. As the years have passed by and I get older and older, there is one ques­tion which con­tin­ues to be asked and the amount of times I get this ques­tion con­tin­ues to rise faster than a loaf of bread cook­ing in the oven.

“So when are you get­ting mar­ried?” “You have a girl­friend yet?”.

This two part ques­tion just dri­ves me crazy. I have resigned myself to just say­ing “She’s on her way. Let me see if she is here yet.” I smile and quickly change the sub­ject. I just can’t take it any­more. This is the one part of my hol­i­day trip I am dread­ing because the sub­ject comes up so often and I have no answer. In fact at fam­ily gath­er­ings of at least 25 peo­ple, it always comes up dur­ing the mid­dle por­tion of din­ner when peo­ple have taken a break from eat­ing so much and there is a hush over the room and here it comes .… Ugh. The sim­ple answer is that I am just too picky and say­ing that will open up the door to many, many unwanted and unso­licited opinions.

Maybe I should can­cel my trip back home this Christ­mas. No ques­tions = no stress.


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Dating a Short Guy


2009
11.18

I have never imag­ined that I would date a guy who was shorter than 5’11″. Since I started dat­ing, all of my boyfriends have been taller than me, and I have been able to wear heels with no issues of tow­er­ing over them. I have met a won­der­ful guy, and we are both attracted to one another. The only prob­lem is that he’s short. He says he is 5’9″, and I’m 5’7″, but I looked in the mir­ror when we were at this party, and I don’t know if it was my hair, but I looked way taller than him. This is with me wear­ing flat boots!

One of my friends is super short, and his girl­friend is my height, and they seem cute together. He wanted to date me, but I was so hung up on height that I didn’t go there. Now I see how he treats his girl­friend like a queen, and I won­der if that would have been me. I never imag­ined that I would be in this posi­tion. Lik­ing a guy who is way too short for me. I love my heels too much, and I don’t know if I could let them go.

I remem­ber one time I went out with a guy who said he was 5’6, but it felt like he was only 5’4. We had a great time, but I couldn’t let go on how short he was.

This is one of my issues. I am way too picky and every­thing turns me off. Should I not even go there with this guy cause he is short? Or should I just give it a go?

Has any girls dated shorter guys? Was it awk­ward? Did you have to sac­ri­fice your heels? Guys, would you date a girl who is taller than you?

Photo Detail:  too tall, orig­i­nally uploaded by dar­go­dargo.


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Don’t judge me because my mom and I aren’t close!


2009
11.13
I just cant get along with her.

I just can’t get along with her.

I recently read an arti­cle that talked about how Michelle Obama gave woman dat­ing advice on how to find a good man. One of the points she made was pay close atten­tion to how a young man treats his mom. This got me to think­ing about an ongo­ing debate I have with a few of my female friends who are in the dating/courting process.

It is a fact that myself and my mom are not shall we say the clos­ests. I rarely share very per­sonal things with her and we may talk once a week. Due to fam­ily events, we have no choice but to stay in touch but I wouldn’t say we are close. In fact, it is a chore to speak with her at times and there just has never been that warm fuzzy feel­ing. When I was younger, my mom and I would get into numer­ous argu­ments and I ended up on pun­ish­ment many, many times. Other times, my mom would be “selec­tive” in terms of which mes­sages I would get from my friends. The selec­tive­ness was due to the race of the per­son call­ing me. Of course, this infu­ri­ated me. Sim­ple as that. One time, my mom didn’t approve of a young lady I was dat­ing and we ended up not speak­ing for a year and a half which coin­cided with the length of time I was dat­ing this young lady. When I say we didn’t talk, I mean I saw her for the Christ­mas hol­i­days and that was the only time we talked. No phone calls or any­thing for 540 days. Of course I played a role in this, but the fact is that we just aren’t that close.

Would you judge me because of this? I would hope not. Many times I am wary of even intro­duc­ing my mom to poten­tial young ladies I may date. I have seen it time and time again just ruin the whole dynamic because my mother is just a tough per­son to get along with and get to know on a gen­uine level. Keep that in mind when I don’t talk about my mom often or speak in length about our his­tory before you do get a chance to meet her. I say all this to remind you not to judge me because my mom and I aren’t close. You could be dis­miss­ing a good thing for a poor reason.

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Realize I’m Lucky That Men Adore Me


2009
11.06
I felt a lit­tle down when things ended with the guy I was dat­ing. How­ever, I real­ized that all I can do is keep on trekking. My eHar­mony sub­scrip­tion has finally run out, and I didn’t renew it. The last day of my sub­scrip­tion the last guy I was dat­ing mes­saged me. We have been chat­ting non­stop ever since. He is just as con­nected as I am, which I like. It’s not like it has been with the past cou­ple of guys I have dated who don’t know how to text or send email. He has kids, like I do.
There is also another guy. I met him while out with my guy friend. He seems sweet, and we had a ball that night. We are sup­pose to go to din­ner on Sat­ur­day, so I real­ized some­thing. I never have issues find­ing guys, so I need to be happy that I at least have a pool of guys I can date. Maybe one day, one of them will turn into some­thing more.


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