Maybe I’m NOT done with the on-line dating experiment. Even though I’d posted on my profile that I was taking a break from the website, guys kept contacting me and sending me messages – proof, once again, that they do NOT actually read the profiles, but only look at the photos!!! Now there are three men that I’m definitely interested in meeting, but I don’t have any time to meet them! Actually, one of them is in L.A. this weekend & I’m busy next weekend, after which I’ll be in Hawaii. We’re thinking we’ll meet up in mid-May. A second one has a motorcycle and is very into Japanese things; he was in L.A. last weekend. We haven’t actually gotten around to discussing meeting, but I think it will come up soon. The third one is an Aussie guy that’s already given me his phone number and said that he’d like to take me to lunch. I’m going to try to set something up with him before my Hawaii trip ’cause he’s SOOO cute & we are, according to the website, an 81% match.
The only downside for me is that the Aussie guy has a 3-year old son. My last long relationship was with a man who had a 6-year old son, at the time we met. We dated for about 3 years more or less, so his son was at least 9 when we quit dating. Though his son was slightly intrigued by me in the beginning, he became more and more jealous of me as time went by. He’d greet me with “Why are you here?” I’d wake up in the morning to “Seriously, why are you always here?” even when I was sleeping on the couch! Whenever his father would try to have a conversation with me, he’d turn the TV up loud, start playing the drums or suddenly need his father’s attention. The only time he wasn’t jealous of me was when we played video games and both of us beat his father. In that case, he never stopped telling his father what a “loser” he was. There’s more, much more, but I don’t feel like getting into it right now. Suffice it to say, that was a huge factor in ending our relationship.
I’ve dated a couple of other guys that had sons, both of who were 3 or 4 when their father & I were dating. Neither of them were jealous of me, though. One of them would crawl in my lap and fall asleep when we were out at restaurants; his father told me that he always said that he wanted to go to my house! The other little boy used to kiss me goodnight whenever he went to bed. They were both very sweet. So I’m not sure whether it’s the age that makes the difference or the parenting.
Anyways, getting a little off track here. As soon as I’d given up on on-line dating, it rears its ugly head again a mere week or so later and tempts me with a really cute guy WITH a son! Why me?! Then again, he did just send me a text! (Smile)