He seems to be enthralled by how much we have in common and what a great girl I am. Do you know how rare a girl like you with no kids is? Yes, I have heard that before. I heard that with DJ, in fact, so hearing that does not get my hopes up. Plus, I am leaving AND he is leaving.
We are both deploying... unfortunately not to the same place. Like me, Ryan is in the Navy, but he goes out on subs for 3 month deployments. Starting in February, he will be doing that 3 or 4 times over the next two years that he has left of his enlistment. It's a plus that he understands what deploying is like. Minus that mine is for 12 months. Also a plus that he told me he's already imagined seeing me again after talking and emailing over the next 12 months. We'll see how that plays out in reality!
We have had some pretty good conversations. I would say I am attracted to him and he has some really good attributes. But I am not getting my hopes up at this time. I am reserved, to say the least after feeling a little burned the last time I put my heart out there. Plus the timing is even worse than the last time. Ryan has to report to his boat next week, at which time he becomes basically unavailable until after his 3 month deployment. And me, I will be out of country for 13 months. So, like Ryan said yesterday, I have effectively put my life on hold for a year. Only God knows what the next year and beyond will bring.
Couple of funny dating stories from the past year:
Richard, the psychologist, dog show photographer: liked to hear himself talk, was pretty funny, kinda charming, but quite arrogant which I didn't truly admit to myself till the end. The end: Richard hadn't called when he said he would, which was not the first time this had happened, so I was frustrated with it. I sent him a somewhat nasty email. His excuse: he was having an anaphylactic reaction to some finfish he had eaten, couldn't talk because his throat was swollen! To this day, I don't honestly know if it's true because he refused to talk to me about it like a grown adult. So that was the actual end of that one. It was never meant to be, which I knew by the 2nd date, but refused to admit.
John: my co-worker, the date I didn't know was a date. We went for a hike and then he decided to take me to dinner. On the way home he talked about how we should take a road trip to Montana someday, maybe go on a cruise together! I never saw this going anywhere, but he appeared to for a moment. Nice guy, attractive, but way too much baggage. We went to a concert together, still didn't consider it a date. On the way there, I get a flurry of texts from some ghetto person I don't even know telling me what am I doing, am I dating John? Because if I am, they want to warn me about the herpes he's carrying and why would I be dating him and don't I know he has a long-time girlfriend that he's always cheating on? Well, it wasn't even a date, but that was enough drama for me to decide never to even "hang out" with him again!
Lastly, another coworker, Joseph, the date that never happened: said I would go out with him... we were texting and he asks me what my fantasy is... That and other things led me to cancel our date. Found out later he'd been talking to another co-worker asking if he thought I'd fool around with him! Wow, what a winner...
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