Dating
Good Morning! Dictionary word of the day - mawkish lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste, exaggeratedly or childish emotional
It is a crisp fall morning and before I set out for my daily walk in the park I thought I would jot down my thoughts reeling around in my brain. A never ending occurrence. The last month I had been highly anticipating meeting this man I had met on the on-line dating site Match. I have been doing this for quit a while now with no true fits for me. This guy, I was really looking forward to meeting, just ended on the weekend like many of the others because they don't seem to want to date just me. We start dating, meeting one another's various friends and families and then things just seem to fizzle out. I am finding out so much about myself in this process. I am truly looking for a life partner and most of the men that I am choosing to date say that at first but they continue to look for the next person. Sometimes it makes me feel that I am not enough for anyone. But then I think these guys just want to taste all the different flavors so to speak. I just know that as soon as I feel or catch wind that they are not all about me, I bail!! I break things off quick and abruptly for two reasons. I first of all don't want to be hurt but second, I don't want to waste time that I could potentially be spending with "my person". It may be that my husband was my one and true only love of my life but when Dick passed I was 55 years old and felt I had much more life in me to give. At almost 60 now, I still believe I have much more to give it just may not be with a life partner. People are always saying "never say never" and I'm not, I'm just not as open about the dating life as I use to be. Dating and meeting that person is so much easier as a young person, unjaded and learning so much about life, but now after living so much of my life I am realizing that we do not only get set in our ways but just know more of what we want and who we are. I am very independent in my thoughts and since I have been a caregiver, I am not very open to having people do for me. My list goes as follows, God, Church, Family, Exercise, conversation, travel, books, wine, beaches, sports, cooking, and learning. I want to be open minded and continue to learn from and with my partner. With Dick, and probably realizing this a bit late, I realize that I really grew with him, he taught me so much. I am realizing to that I appreciate all his interest that I didn't at the time I was living through them. Now, of course, I have had time to sit back and analyze all of life that I want and do enjoy. I pray that God will continue to guide me in this journey because I truly believe if I am meant to find that diamond in the rough he will be seen shinning through for me maybe not like a beacon but something close to it.
It is a crisp fall morning and before I set out for my daily walk in the park I thought I would jot down my thoughts reeling around in my brain. A never ending occurrence. The last month I had been highly anticipating meeting this man I had met on the on-line dating site Match. I have been doing this for quit a while now with no true fits for me. This guy, I was really looking forward to meeting, just ended on the weekend like many of the others because they don't seem to want to date just me. We start dating, meeting one another's various friends and families and then things just seem to fizzle out. I am finding out so much about myself in this process. I am truly looking for a life partner and most of the men that I am choosing to date say that at first but they continue to look for the next person. Sometimes it makes me feel that I am not enough for anyone. But then I think these guys just want to taste all the different flavors so to speak. I just know that as soon as I feel or catch wind that they are not all about me, I bail!! I break things off quick and abruptly for two reasons. I first of all don't want to be hurt but second, I don't want to waste time that I could potentially be spending with "my person". It may be that my husband was my one and true only love of my life but when Dick passed I was 55 years old and felt I had much more life in me to give. At almost 60 now, I still believe I have much more to give it just may not be with a life partner. People are always saying "never say never" and I'm not, I'm just not as open about the dating life as I use to be. Dating and meeting that person is so much easier as a young person, unjaded and learning so much about life, but now after living so much of my life I am realizing that we do not only get set in our ways but just know more of what we want and who we are. I am very independent in my thoughts and since I have been a caregiver, I am not very open to having people do for me. My list goes as follows, God, Church, Family, Exercise, conversation, travel, books, wine, beaches, sports, cooking, and learning. I want to be open minded and continue to learn from and with my partner. With Dick, and probably realizing this a bit late, I realize that I really grew with him, he taught me so much. I am realizing to that I appreciate all his interest that I didn't at the time I was living through them. Now, of course, I have had time to sit back and analyze all of life that I want and do enjoy. I pray that God will continue to guide me in this journey because I truly believe if I am meant to find that diamond in the rough he will be seen shinning through for me maybe not like a beacon but something close to it.
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