DATING

is completely confusing. How does one date? Really? I found my last partner on as site that will go unnamed. Not going there again especially since I was propositioned for sex one too many times. Not that sex is a bad thing but when you’re in you’re very young, being propositioned by a prematurely balding pasty white man in his 50s (who claims to look like he’s in his 40s – he didn’t) that has pictures of himself with jeans and no shirt (and thinks he’s hot stuff) is not really how this woman wants to get propositioned on a daily basis. Tay Diggs or Milo Ventimiglia propositioning me, now that I would consider.

There’s speed dating. Ugh. I think it’s more like, let’s see how drunk we can get in the shortest amount of time possible. There are bars – not doing that. I mean how hard is it find a nice, intelligent, decent person to date. HARD.

So after speaking with a lot of friends and hemming and hawing about how to get back out there, and watching one too many commercials I decided to check out the service with the “29 Dimensions Scale.” As my friends pointed out, I probably won't ever feel ready to date so I might as well get out there. Nothing serious, just fun, see what's out there and what the world has to offer. I mean how could I screw up if I answered the questions honestly and they do the selecting? Do they take into consideration that most people probably don’t answer their questions honestly? What about that? I just hope they don’t select mates like my parents would based on things of no consequence like family background, earning power, car, etc. So I searched online and got a coupon code that gave me a 3 month membership for the price of one month! So I did it. Let the matching begin…..

The weird thing about e-harmony is that at the end they had asked about mental state in the last month with questions like “How often have you been sad?” My choices were something like, “Never,” “Once in a while,” “Half the time, “Most of the Time,” “All the Time.” I had to answer honestly so, for me, a lot of the responses were “Most of the Time.” One’s emotional health is constantly changing so I have to say I’m curious as to who they’re going to match me with given that. I was sad having to say how sad I’ve been.