Backup Dating The Fireman 

Backup No. 2

Not content with The Director and Plan B vying for my attentions, I decided I needed to make things even more complicated. Despite our last ‘date’ being so terribly shocking, I have decided to go on a ‘second date’ with The Fireman. That’s right. I’m that dumb. I think I just get myself in these situations where I find it really difficult to say no to stuff. If someone asks me something via text message or email, I can say no because I have the time to compose myself and…

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Backup Dating 

Backup

Remember the criminal psychoanalysis guy I told you about – Plan B? Well, I thought it had all fizzled out between us after three weeks of constant communication (with a couple of brief interludes) and no date or phone number request so I just stopped responding to his messages. I didn’t see the point. It felt as if we had friend-zoned each other. He gave it a couple of days before messaging me to find out why I had gone quiet. I decided to be honest with him – it…

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What Do You Need to Get a Hot Date The Director 

What Do You Need to Get a Hot Date?

I’ve finally figured out the answer to that age-old question – What do you need to get a hot date? The answer? Another hot date. And then another one thrown in on top of that for good measure. I don’t even know where to start. It’s only been like three days… Slightly stung from The Gemini’s rejection, I decided to take it like a man and jump right back on the internet dating horse. I wasn’t going to give up that easily. I’m on the hunt for a man and I…

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I Went On A Date Last Night And It Went Really Well…

“Sorry, I can’t do today. I went on a date last night and it went really well and it would feel wrong to go on another one.”  That message from The Gemini started my day at 7:03am. Excellent. Just what I wanted. Just what I needed. My opinions on dating right now are already pretty bad and then the one guy I actually thought I liked ditches me for another girl who, just yesterday, he told me he liked me more than. I respect his honesty. I appreciate his honesty…

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There Is You And One Other Girl

So following on from my previous post, I decided to straight up ask The Gemini what the crack was between us. He sent me another message on the site even though we had been chatting on Whatsapp all day and I asked him straight: “Why are you still messaging me on POF?” “Haha I don’t know. I just saw your face and couldn’t resist” I didn’t really know what to say back so I didn’t bother. A few minutes later he sent me another message: “I’m getting lots of messages…

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I’m A Hypocrite

There’s a guy. Let’s call him The Ginger (for obvious reasons I hope). He’s a left handed, Greek Orthodox (I don’t know what that means) father of two. He works from home sometimes in some kind of supervisory role and he is both funny and polite. I would almost go as far as to say he comes across quite the gentleman. He’s a Gemini just like me. In fact I want to change his name. I want to change his name from The Ginger to The Gemini. I don’t think…

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The Fireman Domestic Abuse 

That Time I Got Punched in the Face By a Fireman

CONTENT WARNING: details of domestic violence.  Did I ever tell you about the time I got punched in the face by a fireman? No? Perhaps I should seeing as we’ve been talking a lot recently. And there was that whole fake date thing we had. Let me set the scene. We were about 18/19. It was just before I met The Hubby and my life changed forever. The Fireman and I had been broken up for about a year and so much stuff had happened, it just came to a head…

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I Went On A Date with The Fireman The Fireman 

The Fake Date

So, yeah, I went on that date with The Fireman. Yep, that’s right. I went on a date with a man I broke up with over ten years ago. I’ll never learn from my mistakes will I? In my defence it wasn’t really a date. He’d told me he wanted to start a business and needed a helping hand with some of the website-y stuff. That’s my thing isn’t it? Words and websites? I agreed to meet him – he would pick me up at 4pm, take me for dinner…

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Dating 

I Got Trolled!

So tonight, for the first time ever in my four or five years of on-off internet dating, I had my first real troll. And wow, what a fucking troll he was too. I had checked out his profile because I thought he was hot. Turns out, only his profile picture was hot. The rest of them – not so much. So far undeterred, I carried on to read his profile page. Well, I started to. When I realised I would need to scroll at least five times down the page…

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Send Help Dating 

The Business Proposal: Dissection of a Potential Date

So I’ve been chatting to a couple of guys online because that’s what I do in-between men. I chat up new men on the internet. It’s a little something to pass the time more than anything else, something to give me that flirty banter. But at the same time, every now and again, it unearths a hidden gem – a man that probably doesn’t belong on POF. Well, almost doesn’t belong. Cue new man – 38 years old, distinguished, has his own business, car, no kids, etc. Oooh! Could this be…

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