Am I Ready To Date? An Analogy of Four Women
I’m no longer in the dating scene. But, I used to date a lot and being a woman who went through a second divorce and a midlife crisis, I know a lot about midlife transformation. Dating does tend to be a HUGE part of that change.
Once, a few years ago, I was over at a friends house having girls night, a homemade pizza and wine party. There were four of us, all considered somewhat “single” at the time and at different stages of singledom.
Jeri: She’d recently left her husband and was nowhere close to even considering dating. Circumstances forced her taking her kids and leaving her husband behind, which was against the sanctity of her marriage and religion and she was still dealing with that.
Joan: She’d been trying to date and had been unsuccessful, constantly rejected or was in this hole of never getting a real date at all. She was ready and willing to date, but couldn’t find anyone.
Instead, she tended to fall in love with online non-people. She got catfished a lot. (That’s a whole different blog post).
Laura: She hadn’t had a date in seven years, and was just starting to consider the possiblity of dating. She hesitated getting back into the dating scene with excuses that she needed to lose 10 lbs first, even though she was beautiful and by no means overweight.
