I used to say that most of what I know about dating comes
from How I Met Your Mother. But I’ve
lived a little more over the last few years and gotten out there with more
experiences of my own. I can’t say many if any have a good ending but they’ve
been interesting and confirmed my belief that I know very little about dating.
It’s time to revive this blog. It’ll be now be more of my
thoughts on dating and male-female relationships, both platonic and romantic,
and I’ll try to anonymize most of the names so as not to call out specific
people but rather hopefully entertain and share frustration and joy with you
all.
I’m getting close to 30, still single, and still hate the
whole dating process. But apparently it is a necessary part of living for
anyone who wants to eventually get married and have a family. I still think the
best way to find your mate is to not date at all but seek out good close
friendships and work on developing close friendships, and have that gradually
morph into romance over several months/years. It worked really well twice – for
my two longest-lasting relationships. There’s an xkcd comic about that I often
think about and relate to. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/friends.png
Anyway, I have a lot of female friends I talk to on a
regular basis who are quite clearly just good friends to me (I don’t maintain these
relationships with the idea that they’ll become dependent and eventually fall
in love with me but because they’re simply good companions), so you’d think I’d
know better than most guys how girls think. That doesn’t seem to be the case.
When I go out with a woman on something date-like I am often confused at the
end of it.
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