Today I deleted my dating profiles.
To bring this blog up to speed, it's been a year and a half since I last wrote a post; seeing as I dated 2 people last year it kind of fell by the wayside somewhat (being a blog about being single, after all!)
After the last relationship ended rather spectacularly (cue being dumped by text - you'd think the guy was nearer 17 than 47!) I took a little bit of a time-out, but over the last 6 months or so I've been back on (ok, I'll be honest here, a few) dating sites hoping to find a bit of romance.
Cue tonight. I am sitting watching CrazyHead on Netflix.
Nothing wrong with that I hear you cry - except for the fact that I matched with a guy on one of these sites and had discussed meeting up tonight. I have chosen not to go on a date, with a cute guy who knows the difference between your and you're, to watch a TV series on a streaming site that I could watch at any time!
To be fair it's a bloody good program.
But that's the thing; I've been down this road before - chatted to someone and backed out of a date, stopped chatting or whatever. I guess this is a confession of sorts - I've been guilty of 'ghosting'. Eesh.
So today I've taken the decision to delete my dating profiles and start this blog up again. My university course is due to start up again soon, and with the obvious inability to mentally commit to dating it seems like the right thing to do.
So here's to embracing single life again!
Let's roll!
Saturday, 15 September 2018
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
The 'Plus One' Conundrum
I've received an invite to my friend's wedding this year, in August.
Lovely time of year, it's in Devon as well, so I'm really looking forward to it!
For the first time in my life though I've had an invite with a plus 1 on it! I know, I know, I'm 36 (nearly) so how could this possibly be the first invite with a +1 I've ever received? Well technically it's not. The first non-family wedding I went to was that of my best friend, I was already dating when the invites went out, so my fiancé was naturally included. For reasons, we split up the night before and he didn't actually end up coming to the wedding anyway.
Subsequent weddings I've been invited to have been more, how would you put it, "reception only" or "just me" invites as I'm usually to be found sans-partner, so this is the first time I've really had to navigate the plus-1 gauntlet.
At the moment I'm undecided on whether to tick the plus-1 option. I know that the likelihood of finding someone I care for enough to have a permanent record of at one of my best friends' weddings, within the next 7 months, is fairly minimal. If I did find someone, it's a risk having only dated them for what would have been quite a short time. On the other hand, my friend is not local to me and we don't have common connections, so it would be nice to invite a friend along to keep me company.
So that is my dilemma. Mind you, navigating a wedding as where you don't know anyone would make for a better blog post... maybe I should suffer for my art!
Toodles!
F
Lovely time of year, it's in Devon as well, so I'm really looking forward to it!
For the first time in my life though I've had an invite with a plus 1 on it! I know, I know, I'm 36 (nearly) so how could this possibly be the first invite with a +1 I've ever received? Well technically it's not. The first non-family wedding I went to was that of my best friend, I was already dating when the invites went out, so my fiancé was naturally included. For reasons, we split up the night before and he didn't actually end up coming to the wedding anyway.
Subsequent weddings I've been invited to have been more, how would you put it, "reception only" or "just me" invites as I'm usually to be found sans-partner, so this is the first time I've really had to navigate the plus-1 gauntlet.
At the moment I'm undecided on whether to tick the plus-1 option. I know that the likelihood of finding someone I care for enough to have a permanent record of at one of my best friends' weddings, within the next 7 months, is fairly minimal. If I did find someone, it's a risk having only dated them for what would have been quite a short time. On the other hand, my friend is not local to me and we don't have common connections, so it would be nice to invite a friend along to keep me company.
So that is my dilemma. Mind you, navigating a wedding as where you don't know anyone would make for a better blog post... maybe I should suffer for my art!
Toodles!
F
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