It’s been almost five months since I took myself out of the dating game. I’d been dating for two years prior, but for all the wrong reasons.
I dated because I thought it was what I was supposed to do to get over my ex, even though I knew I wasn’t ready. I dated because attention from men, no matter how cheap and tawdry, made me feel better about myself. I dated not because I wanted to find love, but because I was lonely.
In the last few months I’ve grown leaps and bounds while I learned how to love myself again. I’m no longer lonely or looking for a man or an 8-inch penis to be my mirror or fill a void inside of me. I’m now my own mirror, and that void has been replaced with friends, family, a career, hobbies and activities that I love.
I’m not desperately grabbing for a person, place or thing to make me happy anymore. I truly am happy.
And that’s how I know I’m ready to get off the block, face my fear of falling in love and start dating again.
Or just having sex again. That would work too.
Being the social media maven that I am, I meet a lot of interesting men online. This often leads to flirting, but rarely goes any further. I’m not sure why I don’t take things offline more often since it’s really the only way you can truly tell if there’s chemistry.
You can certainly be attracted to someone’s profile picture and witty banter online but it’s not until you’re face to face, or sucking face, that you know there’s potential there.
Butterflies and wet panties don’t happen online. OK, maybe the wet panties do but it takes an honest to goodness date where you get to know one another and look into eachother’s eyes for real sparks to fly.
HowAboutWe.com is the only dating site I know of that leads with a date because, get this, they actually WANT YOU TO GET OFFLINE AND SUCK FACE!
So today I reactivated my HowAboutWe.com account in an effort to makeout more often. I’m just teasing. As much as I love making out, I’d also like to meet a cool guy that makes me laugh, can be my best friend AND can wet my panties.
He also needs to not be a jerk to my kid. EVER.
You might remember me trying HowAboutWe.com before.
You know, that time I made that video with my HowAboutWe suitors, when we played the Dating Mely Game and I trusted you people to pick a decent date for me?
Boy did that backfire.
Needless to say, this time I’m not letting you assholes pick my date.
I say that with love.
Turns out I couldn’t have picked a better time to get back into the dating scene since HowAboutWe.com is currently offering 33% off all of their subscriptions.
If you want to get back in the dating game with me, click the following link and enter promo code vdaylove: Chemistry Happens Offline with HowAboutWe
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Too shy to make a video? You can still have fun voting for the others! Check them all out HERE.
Need some inspiration to vote or enter? Here’s my “Chemistry Happens Offline” video:
Disclosure: I received compensation for this post. No request to share any particular point of view was made. All opinions expressed here and in the above video are strictly my own.
