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I Turned 40 – 2007 turned to 2008. Decided it was time to start dating. From what I’ve heard Ex 1 and Ex 2 now had girlfriends. Was that part of the motivation to put myself back into the world of relationships? Hell yes! Finding out they had girlfriends was a good thing though. There have been two things in this life lately that I have been fearing most. First, the day my parents leave this earth. I know that day will come and it’s part of life, but it scares the hell out of me, I love them so much. Second, the day I hear that Ex 2 has a new girl. (Ex 1 can have at it) Well, the Day has come for my second fear to be realized and I lived through it! Now I feel like I can really close that chapter and know there is no chance for us and that’s a great thing. It was not a good situation for my mental or physical health for that matter. When I was with Ex 2 I drank more then I had in my entire life. I wonder if the same was true for him – Probably not… he had been polishing off a huge bottle of Bacardi every few days since I met him.
Anyhow, for about $60 you get a 3 month membership to this online site. It claims to have millions of members. I figured maybe I would at least meet someone to take to functions where everyone else is a couple. (I was getting tired of being the pitiful single girl at the company Christmas party.) The hardest part of this online dating was setting up my profile. I did not know what the hell to say. You don’t want to sound like a loser but you also don’t want to sound like you are bragging either. Basically I looked through other profiles and cut and paste from them. After reading what I had put together it sounded so not me. So I started over and wrote from the heart and just was honest about myself and what I was looking for.
My Profile…
I’m a 40 year old mom of two wonderful children who are 11 & 16 years old. They are too occupied with friends now so I think it’s time to for me to make some of my own. : )
I’m definitely young at heart and love to be creative and try new things.
I love animals, especially dogs! My pug Oswald and my cockatoo Harley are my loyal companions. My friends and family say I’m sweet, overly positive (can you be too positive?) and very compassionate. Most of all I love making others laugh! What I’m hoping to find? Being the romantic that I’am, ideally I’d like to find my soul mate. I believe life is meant to be shared and I miss having that special guy to hold hands with. I’m looking for someone who can appreciate the simple things in life. Someone thoughtful who doesn’t just talk about themselves or only thinks about work, money or social status. Someone who will call me at work just to tell me that he was thinking of me and let me know he is my biggest fan. I hope to find a guy who gives me that butterfly feeling and I do the same for him.
There was more information on the profile – height, weight, religion etc. Oh, and I had to post a picture. I found one of me and a girlfriend, it was not the greatest, but I cropped her out of the picture and my profile was complete – I was up in running. It was not long before I had some responses. This was kind of fun… I would love to hear others experiences with internet dating.
To be continued…
