Dating History

[Mysterio]

So I am just curious of everybody's history with love and dating. This is mine.

 

Starting with me at age 18 in 1989

1989 GF=PM

1990 GF=TK

1995 Dated CS

1997 heavy flirtation with DS

 

2000 got involved with a married woman who was chasing after me. M is her name. This really messed me up in the head.

 

2003-dated JO. Fling with NF

2006 dated J met on a dating site

2012-GF=DD broke up after 6 months. Still friends. She wanted kids and that was too much to deal with in month 3 of the relationship.

2013 Dated AK

2015 A dated A for a month.

 

 

While I am not actively dating at the moment. These are the women that shaped me. On a dating level.

 

Contrast to my women friends who are great women. I have 6 of them. They are the ones with that I should be using as a influence more than the women I dated.

[Telemachus]

First formal date, with me driving - June 1977, her initials JM. The next 40 years are a blur of the faces of several girlfriends and two wives, including current wife of 23 years and counting. The several extraterrestrial abductions with experimentation got in the way of dating from time to time.

[d0nnivain]

At some point your dating history doesn't matter that much. I'm a middle aged woman; you can't really judge me for how I dated in college.

 

 

Given my age, mine is rather long. I tried to limited it to relationships.

 

 

I didn't date much in HS.

 

 

I dated steadily for the first time around age 16, junior in HS. It lasted a few months. The first time he called me "his" GF I was so offended at being reduced to an extension of him & feeling like he was depriving me of my identity as an individual I broke up with him.

 

 

Had a prom date.

 

 

Dated another guy for a few weeks, then off to college where I had a blast playing the field. I doubt I had a relationship last more than a semester.

 

 

Dated 2 guys in grad school for about a year each with a smattering of other dates in there.

 

 

Dated a guy in grad school & for a year after that. I thought we would marry; the night he dumped me I had been expecting a proposal. Whoops. Didn't see that coming.

 

 

Dated another guy for 12 years. Lived together for about 10. He didn't "believe in marriage" and is still single.

 

 

Dated a guy for 2 years that I had gone to HS with but didn't know back then.

 

 

Had a smattering of dates & a FWB situation, then met my husband in a bar during a business networking event. Dated for 18 months; got engaged. Been married for almost 9 years.

 

 

Ironically the guy I dated at the end of my senior year of HS & my husband became friends at my 25th HS reunion & now the 2 couples hang out sometimes.

[The_Thall_Man]

Don't know how my dating history is gonna help you, but I was pretty much invisible and undesirable up until 1999 or so. After moving from podunk, Upstate New York to Phoenix, Arizona, things got better. Had fairly regular interested parties, dated around a bit, had a couple of longish term relationships, the last one fizzling out in mid-2012. Since then, it's been garbage. Averaged about one date a year for a few years which I don't consider good, then after a short-term thing that didn't go anywhere, it went to radio silence. Haven't had a date in over three years.

 

Dating these days, a least around here, is abysmal. Dunno what happened. I'm trying to settle down, find someone for the long-haul. It's a real inconvenient time for the dating culture to die. Seriously, what gives?