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Post by doctorquant on Oct 29, 2018 19:45:37 GMT
I always sucked at the dating game. Met MommaQuant through some mutual friends, then a few months later we started dating. Then I got the idea that I had this shit knocked -- plenty of fish in the sea! -- so I dumped her ... boy, howdy was I wrong. Couple of years later, our circles crossed and I immediately started working to get the band back together (she was, shall we say, less than amenable to an immediate reunion). Still, persistence paid off ... we've been married 27 years.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 19:56:37 GMT
I’m ashamed to admit I treated women like absolute shit after my first ex and I split.
That year was such a weird paradox: I had never been so angry and bitter, yet I also never got more action.
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Post by Da Man on Oct 29, 2018 19:59:09 GMT
My wife and I were friendly in college, though she was in a serious long-term relationship at the time. Then we went to a concert with a group of people after college and got drunk. The rest is history. That said, if she hadn't gotten in touch with me, I have no idea how things would have gone for me. I went on precisely zero dates from college graduation 1999 to our first date in June 2001. Not even a bite. It seems that women aren't super-interested in overweight guys who make $25,000 a year and work nights and weekends. It's interesting, because I always did pretty well and never fully understood it. In high school, I understood it because I was football captain and it was easy. My freshman year of college was insane. Then I dated the same girl my last three years of college. I briefly had a fling with a WNBA player who I was sent to do a story on. It wasn't a one-night thing and we weren't "dating" but it was just a case of both of us being right out of a relationship. It lasted a couple months, but we weren't in the same city. She's a college coach now and actually pretty successful. I had a lot of hookups with PR girls I met on the road. I never pursued them. I'm not a flirt at all. I'm heavier now than I was back then, thanks in large part to a really bad back injury, but I've always been built like a lineman. They all just fell into my lap and it was too easy and convenient to pass on. I had a fling with an editor at my first paper who had been my TA in college. That was a friends with benefits deal and she was 100 percent the aggressor. Then I started dating someone who worked for her, and that was an unmitigated disaster. In the few years after that, I had two mildly serious relationships (about a year each) and then moved to where I am now and met my wife right away. We've been together 15 years. I'll be very upset if I ever have to go on another date the rest of my life. I remember you telling the WNBA story -- I was this close to kicking your ass when I thought it was Becky Hammon. And I can honestly say I have never even come close to a "hookup" with a PR girl from any sporting event I have ever covered. Nor have I ever had one "fall into my lap."
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Post by mizzougrad96 on Oct 29, 2018 20:07:03 GMT
It's interesting, because I always did pretty well and never fully understood it. In high school, I understood it because I was football captain and it was easy. My freshman year of college was insane. Then I dated the same girl my last three years of college. I briefly had a fling with a WNBA player who I was sent to do a story on. It wasn't a one-night thing and we weren't "dating" but it was just a case of both of us being right out of a relationship. It lasted a couple months, but we weren't in the same city. She's a college coach now and actually pretty successful. I had a lot of hookups with PR girls I met on the road. I never pursued them. I'm not a flirt at all. I'm heavier now than I was back then, thanks in large part to a really bad back injury, but I've always been built like a lineman. They all just fell into my lap and it was too easy and convenient to pass on. I had a fling with an editor at my first paper who had been my TA in college. That was a friends with benefits deal and she was 100 percent the aggressor. Then I started dating someone who worked for her, and that was an unmitigated disaster. In the few years after that, I had two mildly serious relationships (about a year each) and then moved to where I am now and met my wife right away. We've been together 15 years. I'll be very upset if I ever have to go on another date the rest of my life. I remember you telling the WNBA story -- I was this close to kicking your ass when I thought it was Becky Hammon. And I can honestly say I have never even come close to a "hookup" with a PR girls from any sporting event I have ever covered. Nor have I ever had one "fall into my lap." Becky Hammon... Fuck, I wish... The one I "dated" was cute, but nothing to jump up and down about.
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Post by doctorquant on Oct 29, 2018 20:14:02 GMT
It's a shame (honestly) that this place is, as one might put it, a "sausage fest." I wish there were more women sharing their perspectives on dating in this day and age. I suspect we sausage-bearers aren't exactly all sunshine and unicorns.
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Post by Da Man on Oct 29, 2018 20:21:12 GMT
It's a shame (honestly) that this place is, as one might put it, a "sausage fest." I wish there were more women sharing their perspectives on dating in this day and age. I suspect we sausage-bearers aren't exactly all sunshine and unicorns. Speak for yourself, pal.
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Post by Liberal White Women on Oct 29, 2018 21:03:22 GMT
Thankfully, I married someone at 22 and am still happily married to her 24-plus years later. So this dating thread is affirmation that I would not do well if I ever had to get back out there, "dad bod" and all.
A question from what I've observed at my shop: The 'creepy' factor.
From time to time, a single woman in her mid-20s will be hired, either in the newsroom, business office or on the ad staff. The parade of men who shamelessly roll out the welcome wagon by these women's desks is pathetic. I mean, these are guys in their mid-40s trying to chat up women who literally could be their daughter.
Creepy.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:08:28 GMT
Thankfully, I married someone at 22 and am still happily married to her 24-plus years later. So this dating thread is affirmation that I would not do well if I ever had to get back out there, "dad bod" and all. A question from what I've observed at my shop: The 'creepy' factor. From time to time, a single woman in her mid-20s will be hired, either in the newsroom, business office or on the ad staff. The parade of men who shamelessly roll out the welcome wagon by these women's desks is pathetic. I mean, these are guys in their mid-40s trying to chat up women who literally could be their daughter. Creepy. Attractive Woman Surprised to Learn Co-Worker a Dick
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:22:12 GMT
Thankfully, I married someone at 22 and am still happily married to her 24-plus years later. So this dating thread is affirmation that I would not do well if I ever had to get back out there, "dad bod" and all. A question from what I've observed at my shop: The 'creepy' factor. From time to time, a single woman in her mid-20s will be hired, either in the newsroom, business office or on the ad staff. The parade of men who shamelessly roll out the welcome wagon by these women's desks is pathetic. I mean, these are guys in their mid-40s trying to chat up women who literally could be their daughter. Creepy. I'll be damned if I can figure out why, though, but attractive young women often date much older men. And not just the 40-year-old dudes who work out every day and look like they're 25. Could be money. Could be the dad bod! But, much more often than anyone would admit, it works.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:24:43 GMT
Thankfully, I married someone at 22 and am still happily married to her 24-plus years later. So this dating thread is affirmation that I would not do well if I ever had to get back out there, "dad bod" and all. A question from what I've observed at my shop: The 'creepy' factor. From time to time, a single woman in her mid-20s will be hired, either in the newsroom, business office or on the ad staff. The parade of men who shamelessly roll out the welcome wagon by these women's desks is pathetic. I mean, these are guys in their mid-40s trying to chat up women who literally could be their daughter. Creepy. I'll be damned if I can figure out why, though, but attractive young women often date much older men. And not just the 40-year-old dudes who work out every day and look like they're 25. Could be money. Could be the dad bod! But, much more often than anyone would admit, it works. No outing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:26:16 GMT
I accounted for the distinguishing features in Draper's visage to eliminate him as looking 25. If I had said "look 30," I'd be in trouble.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:32:00 GMT
I accounted for the distinguishing features in Draper's visage to eliminate him as looking 25. If I had said "look 30," I'd be in trouble. I meant me. All that running has left Dick/Don with the frame of a women's college cross country runner.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:32:38 GMT
With a beard, I look 50.
Clean shaven, I’d bet money I could pass as 25.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:33:24 GMT
I accounted for the distinguishing features in Draper's visage to eliminate him as looking 25. If I had said "look 30," I'd be in trouble. I meant me. All that running has left Dick/Don with the frame of a women's college cross country runner. Mrs. Whitman gets frustrated because parents sometimes think she's a fresh-out-of-college teacher. She's like, "I'm 41!"
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Post by doctorquant on Oct 29, 2018 21:40:25 GMT
I put our "cutting-the-cake" wedding day picture up on Facebook the other day for our anniversary. One of the commenters referred to MommaQuant -- who's three years older than me! -- as my "child bride."
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