Quick note - because I'm in the middle of working and it's 10 minutes till crunch time!
Yesterday morning my meteorologist asked me if I was dating anyone. I said no. And then she goes, "Well, do you have guy friends that you hang out with--"
"Yeah!"
"--that you want to date? Or that you're interested in?"
"No. Why?"
"Well...I just think you'd be a good girlfriend."
Yeah. I would be a good girlfriend. If I wanted to be one. But I don't want to be one. My mom really understands that, which is great because I know she probably wants grandkids and I'm not helping out with that right now. I know my dad is A-O-K with me not putting myself in any potentially heartbreaking situations, as long as I'm happy with that decision. And they're both cool with me being more focused on my career than on my personal life right now.
But sometimes it's like other people don't get that.
Which is fine. It's not my problem...but sometimes I get annoyed that I have to defend my reasons for not jumping back into the dating pool.
Plus, the meteorologist is getting married, like just about everyone else in the world that I know, so I think that always makes me feel a little more alone in the world. Not alone in the sense that I have no significant other, but in the sense that I don't feel like I have any friends my age who are single and content with that. Even my sisters... Michelle is already planning a wedding in her mind, and she and her boyfriend are already having those "when we're married" conversations. She is a VERY hopeless romantic. And my little sister Marla is in a new relationship, and she has this ability to just sort of move smoothly from one relationship to the next without having to take a year off for "me-time" like her second-oldest sister (that's me, if you didn't catch that).
So I think that's what makes me feel lonely sometimes. It's not the loneliness of not having a special guy in my life...just the loneliness of not feeling like anyone else is in the same boat as me.
And sometimes I get tired of paddling alone. Just sayin'.
Ok, 5 minutes to crunch time! Gotta go! The news won't wait! :)
Until later.
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2 comments:
ok... not in the same boat but can definitely identify with this too, because we don't have very many married friends... so i'm very happily married but would like more very happily married friends to hang out w/! ha!! :)
Not that I don't love being married, but being a single girl with no man in my life...those were some of the best times. Live it up, girlfriend. You ahve the rest of your life to be "attached."
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