July 23, 2010
Internet dating, 5
38-year-old male located forty miles outside a metropolitan area contacts 26-year-old female within city limits:
I don’t know how our two lives would fit together, but, I think that we are looking for the same thing; expressing and experiencing love in a happy and fulfilling relationship. I’m looking to grow a quality long-term relationship to celebrate life; I am open to the possibility that could be with you — unless you would rather miss out and live your life without a man’s energy.
It’s amazing to see a woman who really wants to experience a balanced relationship with me. I enjoyed reading that you seem pretty sure of yourself. I appreciate the perspective you hold in the world. I like to think about what would happen if everyone did the things you did.
Anyway, I am offering to give you what you’re looking for in a man — masculine energy, a good listener, stimulation, a happy life, friends, romance, and worldly skills. Let’s just take our time to get to know each other and earn each others trust, become comfortable sharing some laughs, go on romantic walks, star gaze and have some fun!
You know, when I take you out on dates, I don’t know whether our new adventures will turn into incredibly exciting experiences or just wonderfully fun times, but it sure is going to feel good to go out and laugh a lot, isn’t it?
And of course, before you get that far, there is that excitement you get when you’re out with someone new who you could fall in love with. That “can’t get ‘em out of your head, smiling until your cheeks hurt” kinda feeling; that blissful agony of having to wait until the next time you see ‘em… mushy stuff, I know, but honestly, I think that’s a good feeling to never grow out of.
Maybe we owe it to ourselves to hang out and talk…. I’m curious to find out about the person wrapped inside all the pretty.
Thank you for your time. I’d appreciate an answer either way just so I know I’ve connected with you in meaningful ways. I invite you to just be with this question: what would love do now? Will you allow that to happen?
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you want me to add assholes as a category?
I almost can’t handle any of these.
a man’s energy.
worldly skills.
One of our clients is a large foreign dating site; that post was a heck of a lot less creepy than some of the stuff I’ve come across.
Assholes is very much a fitting category. Thanks, Deron.
Andrew, I invite you to just be with this question.
I should also point out that this job has made me a lot more sympathetic to guys like this. I’m 27 and happily married, so my knee jerk reaction is “man, what a loser”, but sometimes I wonder if I’d be any less desperate if I was 40 and lonely.
Sure, he sounds like a total asshole, but there’s a chance he’s actually a really nice, lonely guy just pretending to be an asshole because he’s tried everything else and nothing worked, with each day that passes making it a little less likely that he’s ever going to find someone.
I honestly don’t know what I’d do under that kind of strain, and I hope to never have to find out.
this one actually made me physically nauseous.
call now and get a set of steak knives
I have worldly skills.
*eyebrowwaggle*
Dave.
Cindy.
The other day I decided that you need to meet Amy. I also decided at the same moment that she should never go to Denver.
I would love to meet Amy. And if she does go to Denver, she should watch out for an asshole in a wheelchair somewhere in the vicinity of the downtown public library. But it’s probably best that she just stay clear of the place.
I just wrote a performance review that sounds a lot like this. just replace all the stuff about love with productivity and quality.
Are you looking more for “incredibly exciting”? or “wonderfully fun”?
That “maybe we owe it to ourselves” sentence/paragraph makes me want to cry giant tears of barf.
I almost cried giant tears of barf the other night. I blew my nose after and shredded lettuce came out.
It was a rough night.
Aaron just articulated the inarticulable.
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