Am I a dating dunce?

Do you know if you’d have asked me a year ago if I’d still be single today I think that I might just have scoffed and said, maybe even in a slightly mocking tone, ‘I don’t think so!’

You see I thought I was a bit of catch, a catch with a bit of visible and not-so-visible baggage, but a fine catch nonetheless! (See! I have lots of confidence in myself at times!)

So where the hell have I gone wrong when it comes to meeting a nice bloke?

I’m pleasing to the eye, I love to laugh, I’m not (officially) mentally unstable, I’m laid back, open minded, independent and confident. I attract attention but not a boyfriend.

Now whilst I’m a late arrival to the dating game, I’ve watched enough episodes of Sex and the City (while happily living in my smug married cocoon) to know that however-exciting-dating-can-be-when-it’s-going-well it can be pretty shitty the rest of the time.

How do you meet them? Once you do how do you attract them? And then how the blummin hell do you keep their attention / interest / affection for longer than it takes a goldfish to swim round its bowl?

Now if you’ve stumbled upon my blog by some dodgy quirk of Google in search of dating support……hmmmmm back up, back up now! OR hang around, I’m sure I can show you that you are not alone, or that ‘things don’t look too bad, actually, now you come to mention it, I’m fine!’

I happen to have also been searching blogs for moral support and my favourite so far is Dating is Weird (other bloggers please don’t be offended, there’s a lot of us out there, I’m yet to find you all, but feel free to get in touch and let me know about you. Mwah xx) A great collection of dating stories that we can all relate to at some point in our lives. Hell yeah, I hear ya!

(Ooops! Now I’ve started talking about dating I’ve realised I have far too much to say. This post is going to require sequels.)

Anyway, I digress, as ever.

Dating, and the people you meet doing it, can be magical, awesome, exciting, exhilarating, liberating, life changing, amazing, blah, blah, blah! However it can also be confidence knocking, soul destroying, hurtful, shocking, confusing, boring, tedious and just plain weird.

I never knew it would be like this.

There’s got to be a better way? Suggestions on a postcard asap!

To be continued…… xxx