Oh man, I know I posted a few times about some really lame dates! I don’t post that often now but I enjoy reading everyone’s stories! This has been such a successful and positive forum post! 🙂

AGReed! Glad to hear of all the successes 🙂

@copa, even if you don’t have “success” you are able to learn and grow, cheesy as it may sound, in your dating life. Every relationship, and date, provides the opportunity to learn and further develop yourself. Better to be ready for the next one, than unprepared!

See, this is why I need to read the whole thread. Who is Hippie Artist Guy and why was he high on your couch for three months?

I’m sure I’ve already briefed everyone here on my crush on my neighbor. Yesterday morning he was standing outside in jeans and a t-shirt with his dog, and it was drizzling, and he looked so good. We’ve been texting on and off for a couple weeks but only hung out once. If today’s “nice” (by which I mean, it’s not raining or snowing for once) weather holds up I’m going to try to coordinate walking our dogs together again tonight.

I had a guy I went on a single date with awhile back pop back up the past couple weeks. Our date was a bit awkward. It was at a bar that was too loud, and on top of that he had recently hurt himself playing football and temporarily had limited hearing out of one of his ears. We met on Bumble and after a couple drinks he started going on and on about how great everything was, all, “We’ve matched before! I was so glad you said hello this time! Are you also on Match.com? We’ve matched on there, too!” Dude, chill! He was nice enough and I was open to a second date, but wasn’t too upset when it fizzled quickly. Anyway, he’s popped back up but at this point I have zero interest.

Sorry if this gets posted twice, I thought I hit Submit but maybe I forgot. @MissD – I love seeing your updates and am excited for the ones you will be posting in the coming months. I don’t know you, but am so happy that you have found happiness with someone. I hope you were able to get your vacation sorted out at work.
@Copa – it is definitely worth the time to go back and read from the beginning, but it is a commitment. I basically kept Dear Wendy open in a browser on my phone for months and would read when I had a few minutes.

@Copa, I met Hippie Artist Guy on OKCupid in the summer of 2015 and we dated for about 3 months. He is in fact a local artist who, at 38, was unemployed, staying at a friend’s house, and spent the summer sitting in various bars with me talking about screenwriting (I have a Master’s in screenwriting and he was “working on a screenplay”) and if we were astrologically compatible.

After 3 months of me making him gluten free-breakfast after he fell asleep on my couch watching Netflix every weekend, he ghosted me in the middle of the night after I took him to see Jerry Seinfeld. He just stopped responding or initiating us getting together.

Six months later, after I’d already moved on and dated 2 other people, he added me on Facebook & started texting me asking to come over to my house – refused to meet me in a bar. I said absolutely not, basically you had your chance and you blew it, and he removed me on Facebook at some point after that.

Talking to him on Saturday was surreal. I do NOT miss him at ALL and wonder why I put up with it for so long.