Sunday, September 14, 2008

Mr. Myspace

So after the whole incident with the guy from my High School I pretty much decided that I was probably doomed in the relationship department. I figured that if I didn't make an effort to meet new people that they weren't just going to come and seek me out. A few months earlier I had gone on one random date with a guy that I had met on Myspace. He had sought me out and told me about his 3 children and his hard breakup of his 8 year marriage and I felt like we had a lot in common. That was until the date. We'll call Mr. Myspace Mark. Mark and I meet for coffee at a local Starbucks. He was attractive and tall and funny, but he wasn't a Christian and I definitely am. So at the end of the date we said goodnight and went on our way. We talked the next day by phone and he did ask for another date, but I said I don't know what the point would be this could never work out because we live our lives to different ways. That pretty much shut him down. WELL after the guy from High School lost total interest I decided to give Mark a second chance. We went out to dinner and then breakfast and some where in there he introduced me to his children. To me being introduced to someone's kids was a big deal. I even mentioned to him that I thought that it was too soon and that I thought that should be reserved for a serious relationship. But Mark represented himself as someone who was heartbroken about the end of his marriage. A single Dad doing it all by himself. Someone who was just getting back into the dating scene. So I let it slide and tried my best to go with the flow. So after a few weeks of seeing each other Mark stops answering his phone. We had made plans to see each other and then he just never showed up and never called. The next day he did return me call with an excuse that he was playing poker with friends and that he thought our plans were just tentative.

1 comment:

Brasilmagic said...

It's sad when religion makes potential good candidates a problem. Amazing how religion only creates divisiveness.

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg