Dating with Personal Ads: Make Your Own Great Expectations Forever
For one, I cannot say I’m exactly satisfied living alone and remain an honest woman. However, I’m not unsatisfied in that way, either. I merely bring it up here as a delicious little tidbit foreshadowing what I am prepared to unravel!
This time last week I was walking the dog, Trisha, pondering about joining a Dallas Singles dating service. As of this minute, I sit to the blogosphere as a surprisingly pleased member of the dating service. For real, it’s true. I like it! If you’ve been paying attention, you may be wondering, “You totally owe me an explanation.”
Well, I saw this Great Expectations Dating site and can really get behind their approach. They’re for the honest singles who know dating should have a point.
Because I’d never been a fan of the ridiculous nightlife ritual my friends and my family have named “The Dating Game.” I got it all the time. Every night friends ask, “You’re still single? ” and “Please tell me you two are dating.”
“Nonsense,” I reply, without missing a beat. “Not after that last blind date you set me up on.”
“Don’t be silly,” they reply. “You haven’t dated in a year, you wouldn’t know!”
Thankfully, that’s my partner in crime (she’s the best) (hehe) Trisha McCarthy. She sets reality directly to my core 99% of the time. Friends I depend on to offer perspective. Can’t argue with that, and I joined.
Coming home to the point of this essay. As I picked from hundreds of quality singles for my first date with Great Expectations, a revelation hit me deep. Over the last year, I hadn’t held any literal great expectations for dating and myself in the serendipitous journey of life. It’s good to be single, even more so when you get out there and have fun. Embracing your own great expectations makes a difference for those who believe.
~Christy Davis
