This has me howling with laughter, because if you take away the NYC references, this is my life. This article appeared on the Huffington Post October 2, 2014.
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Straight From a Guy: How to Let Him Down Easy.How Thinking Like A Man Helped Me Begin Thinking Like A Woman.The Day My Ex Thought I Was ‘Taken,’ And What I Was Given Back.One Year Later: My New Year’s Eve Kiss… My Ass.Has a negative experience ever made you want to take a break from dating? You are happy you just got dumped because now you finally have an excuse to stay home. You become a badass to your dates and suddenly realize the less you care the more they do.Ģ2. You really just want to chow down on a cheeseburger and fries at the Shake Shack instead of a salad and grilled fish at yet another expensive restaurant.Ģ1. Friends excitedly ask when you started commuting to the city for work and you sheepishly explain that dating is now your full-time job.Ģ0. You spend an inordinate amount of time getting dressed.ġ9. And for the life of you, you still cannot remember which floor his apartment is on once you step into the elevator.ġ7. You develop mnemonic devices to help remember where the guy you are dating lives. Before dates you catch yourself singing, “The time was six o’clock on the Swatch watch, no time to chill, got a date, can’t be late.” (Bell Biv DeVoe, Do Me)ġ6. You are worried the train conductor on NJ Transit has seen you wearing the same dress twice in a week because (a) you have and (b) you and the conductor are now on a first-name basis.ġ5. Every time a relationship ends you push a mental reset button on your wardrobe and wistfully wonder if you will ever be lucky enough to repeat an outfit with the same guy.ġ4. You fear meeting exes on the street while on a date in New York City.ġ3. You are tempted to refer a new date to your blog’s URL so you need not waste time repeating your life story yet again.ġ2.
You keep repeating to your date, “Did I tell you this story already?”ġ1.
When you look through your phone’s contacts, you do not remember who some of the guys are but are certain you dated them.ġ0. When you are out shopping and the cashier tells you to swipe your credit card, you ask, “Left or right?”ĩ. But would canceling really have been such a bad idea? Here are 22 ways to know if it may be time for you to take a much-needed break from dating and redirect your energy elsewhere for a while.ġ. No, that date was not with my father, so there is no implication of destiny at play here.
Was my grandfather right persuading my mother to leave, or should she have taken the night off as she wished to spend a little quality time with herself and Dr. To this day, my mother still does not know the identity of the one-armed man and blames her overactive social calendar as the reason why. When her father, my grandfather, got wind of this new turn of events, he sat her down and advised her to go out on that date because, as he reminded her, television is not real life and her future is. On one fateful evening back in 1967, my mother decided she would cancel her previously scheduled Tuesday night date to stay home and watch the last televised episode of The Fugitive.
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