Oh shit, son- I forgot Exhibit H: I wear skulls. I have a skull doo-rag that I wear to the barn, and flaming skulls on my slip-on tennies. Undateable!
You have your bed on the floor. That makes you undateable. (I'm serious- this was one of the "rules" last night.) Also, if I'm not mistaken, you have unframed art, such as posters in your house, true? Undateable. Do you have things in your car other than what the car came with? Undateable. Does Johnny ever wear denim shorts? Undateable. Playing Dungeons and Dragons is verboten. Crocs. Being unable to throw a baseball. All of these things make a guy undateable.
I call bullshit SO HARD. I can throw a baseball, but I've never actually asked anyone I dated to throw one back to me.
To my utter horror, I had to surrender my cynical about love card when I met and married my guy. On some levels, I still feel the loss of that part of my identity. I don't know who to be when it comes to relationship advice anymore, because all I can say is that I did get the brass ring this time around. I can't ever tell anyone that it doesn't exist, because it does. It's just better if you don't realize it happens unless you already have it.
I'm pretty neutral, at the end of the day. Either it happens or it doesn't, and I'm not seeing it as a huge loss if it doesn't. I get to spend every day I'm alive with myself, and that's something some people can't say.
And really? There are lots of different kinds of love. I had a different kind of love with my ex, and I'd have stuck with it for the rest of my life and counted myself lucky. It's just that what I've got now is . . . more, I guess.
But I think you've nailed down the most important part of the equation, which is appreciating you, first. There's a lot to admire in a person who makes their own destiny, instead of waiting for the right person to come along before they start.
Sure there are! Everyone I've loved has been loved in a different way. I've also managed to drive them away in different ways. I'm grateful for every person who comes in and out of my life... knowing when to let go is important, but knowing when to stay is even more.
I'm a huge mess. I'll be the first to admit it. Awful mess. But I don't want to stay a mess. I want to be a full person, and I'm working on it. A lot of people are intersections, though. You're very, very close for a period of time, but then you move in different directions and can't be that close anymore. And that's ok!
Be exactly the person that YOU feel like being. Make yourself happy, and whoever doesn't like it, that's THEIR problem.
Like I tell Stephy, don't live to please anyone else, or follow anyone else's lead. There will eventually be people who see you doing your own thing and loving it ~ and THEY will follow YOU.
It might take years, but yeah. It's the only way to be.
Now I've gotta roust the daughter from her midday nap. Yeah, I let her sleep whenever she wants. Got a problem wid dat, huh? Huh?
My only problem is that I want a mid-day nap... at 8.30am. I just crawled down to the caffeine machine and crawled my way back. Really took it out of me.
Rarr rigga rarr bligga blah.
Now there are two very small men wearing too much Acqua Di Homo here to remove my keyboard tray. *I* think this is going to be amusing.
I think the only kind of meaningful relationship is one where people get you and want to be with you/around you regardless of your bad stuff. That goes for friendships, too.
If relationships are only that external crap, then I don't think I want one. Ever since I was a kid, all I've ever wanted was someone who gets me and that's what I'm going to hold out for. I think you should, too. You're way too beautiful to not get that.
That's kinda what I've always been aiming for. In fact, it still is, because I think somewhere, there is a special breed of unicorn who agrees with me. I think I have enough evidence in this comment thread to support that hypothesis!
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You have your bed on the floor. That makes you undateable. (I'm serious- this was one of the "rules" last night.) Also, if I'm not mistaken, you have unframed art, such as posters in your house, true? Undateable. Do you have things in your car other than what the car came with? Undateable. Does Johnny ever wear denim shorts? Undateable. Playing Dungeons and Dragons is verboten. Crocs. Being unable to throw a baseball. All of these things make a guy undateable.
I call bullshit SO HARD. I can throw a baseball, but I've never actually asked anyone I dated to throw one back to me.
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But I think you've nailed down the most important part of the equation, which is appreciating you, first. There's a lot to admire in a person who makes their own destiny, instead of waiting for the right person to come along before they start.
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I'm a huge mess. I'll be the first to admit it. Awful mess. But I don't want to stay a mess. I want to be a full person, and I'm working on it. A lot of people are intersections, though. You're very, very close for a period of time, but then you move in different directions and can't be that close anymore. And that's ok!
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Be exactly the person that YOU feel like being.
Make yourself happy, and whoever doesn't like it, that's THEIR problem.
Like I tell Stephy, don't live to please anyone else, or follow anyone else's lead. There will eventually be people who see you doing your own thing and loving it ~ and THEY will follow YOU.
It might take years, but yeah. It's the only way to be.
Now I've gotta roust the daughter from her midday nap. Yeah, I let her sleep whenever she wants. Got a problem wid dat, huh? Huh?
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Rarr rigga rarr bligga blah.
Now there are two very small men wearing too much Acqua Di Homo here to remove my keyboard tray. *I* think this is going to be amusing.
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If relationships are only that external crap, then I don't think I want one. Ever since I was a kid, all I've ever wanted was someone who gets me and that's what I'm going to hold out for. I think you should, too. You're way too beautiful to not get that.
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I have ALL the things on the list of "undateable" that you do! And I'm PROUD of it!
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