RU N2 Me?

I signed up at an online dating site.  A couple of them, actually.  I didn’t have the best of luck my first time around at online dating years ago.  I was a Trend-setter.  An industry pioneer.  A Revolutionary.  (No really, I got a lot of grief for that article, as online dating was in its infancy stages and I was considered a weirdo for doing it.)

But, I figured things have changed.  Both the online dating scene and I have matured.  We’ve learned from our experiences and now it’s time for us to reunite.  This time, however, I thought that I wouldn’t be looking for Mr. Right (or even Mr. Right now, for that matter).  Just looking.  “Looking” as in keeping my eyes and ears open to what’s good, what’s not so good, and anything in between.  I wanted to use this experience as my “growing relationship,” as Fisher and Alberti say in their completely awesome book, Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends.

So, let me just give you the abbreviated version of my cyber-experience:

No to the dude with the “My Name Is Earl” mustache. 

No to the guy who wants the Proverbs 31 wife (nice thought, but I can read between the lines, Control Freak). 

Uh, no to the man who used his 1990 Olan Mills family portrait (with his wife cut out) as his profile pic.  (Really, dude?)

Ppffttt… online, schmonline.  Well, back to reality…

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