@Copa and @alafair: I like the guy but I also think we could be friends. He is training for an ultramarathon so he always has to train. But we text every day and I even tell him what I’m up too. We are friendly so if the relationship derives into that I wouldn’t mind. You never have enough friends that is exactly right. I actually still talk to someone I met on tinder a while ago, we text every now and then and he is funny, but we never got to actually meet. He’s going to Norway and has asked for opinions and has shared his schedule with me. But we never met. It’s funny, he is a texting friend.
@Ms.Vader sounds like a nice date. Was it the first?

It’s fine to wait! There’s an episode of How I Met Your Mother where they explain the stages of “I love you,” and I think it’s so cute. It’s something like, the moment where you think you know, the moment where you KNOW you know but can’t muster the guts to say it, and the moment where you know you know and you can’t hold it in anymore. I think you’re still in the first or second stage. 😉

We’ve spent a fair amount of full days together, but only one night. I’m a single mom and granted I have 2 adult children (21 and 22) and a 12 year old at home…I don’t feel comfortable being gone all night regularly. The adult kids can do an excellent job watching the 12 year old, but its not the same as having MOM there for him.

And yeah, I think waiting is better. Possibly just because I’m in stage 2 of @Copa’s list there and seriously lack the guts currently 🙂

Hm. Things are still going well with BG, though his travel schedule has made things so start/stop. But I feel like we’re both trying. Saw him both Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend, including one date at a pretty nice restaurant I’ve always wanted to try. (Food was freakin’ amazing!) Then he took off on a work trip. He comes home today, and leaves for another trip tomorrow. So I’m dropping by his place tonight on my way home from therapy for a quick hello/goodbye so that we don’t have to go over two weeks without seeing each other. As a side note, his upcoming trip is to London, where an old friend of mine lives, so I contacted her asking her for recommendations for him that he wouldn’t find without the help of locals. So this friend and her fiance might actually meet up with him one evening while he’s there if schedules allow, which I think would be super fun.

In Neighbor News, I can’t even handle how immature he is. Yesterday morning we were in a situation where he couldn’t avoid me. He refused to face me (literally, back to me) or make eye contact while our briefly dogs sniffed each other out. He eventually mustered a, “Hey, how’s it going?” without any eye contact. I said a cheery hello. I’m starting to *actually* relish in his awkward behavior (instead of just faking it) because I think it’s so stupid at this point. Our fling or whatever was MONTHS ago and MY feelings were the ones that were hurt, not his, yet HE is the one who can’t seem to act normal? Good grief.

We got to go to a concert on Sunday and then have most of Monday off together. But we had a TON of his family in (6 additional people) so we had a blast. We got free floor seats to the concert. Sadly the artist broke his foot or something mid performance and had to cut the concert short.

Not a date but I was at my regular meetup last week and got chatting to a new dude there. He’s from where I used to live so we had a nice chat about how it’s changed and then our respective spouses. Literally 95% of the conversation was about our spouses and his kids and how they’re also having trouble cracking the friendship market here. At the end of the night I said hey seeing as we’re both finding it difficult here’s my card get your wife to call me, I have some events coming up she might like to come to blah blah blah.

So you can see where it’s going, I got an email from him on Wednesday saying hello and how great it was to meet someone ‘as out there as him.’ I gave it one last chance and sent a link to a ladies night event for his wife and surprise surprise never heard back. He’d gone to the event alone and she was at home watching their 2 year old twins, they’re supposed to be taking turns to get nights out and that’s how he’s treating his? Why are men even.