Well, number 39 was just another date that seemed to fade away almost as soon as we said goodnight… I’m not completely sure where I met him, but I know he contacted me first. I wasn’t especially interested/attracted, but I am trying to expand my horizons and not just dismiss people at first glance, so I agreed to meet. The only thing that was a bit weird was that it appeared that one of his kids (he was a single dad of 4 teens–that got my respect pretty quick!) went to school with my daughter. It makes me nervous when our kids could intersect cause my daughter is so weird about that. To avoid any issues, I sent her a copy of the picture of the kid I thought went to school with her but she didn’t know him so I was clear to potentially date his dad.
The date was fine, again–really. We went to a bar nearby that was totally empty for the first 45 minutes we were there and that was a little weird. But there was no chemistry there–at all. He would say something. I would say something. Awkward silence. That’s pretty much how it went. He said he would call me, but I was pretty sure he would not. And I was right.
Lessons learned:
1. Whenever you are a parent who dates, it does give you an additional set of rules to follow depending on the ages of your kids. Once they are old enough to care, their opinion does start to matter–like it or not!
2. You can’t force chemistry–either it’s there or it’s not….