First Time on a Dating App — End of Week One

One minor disaster, one major disaster and a whole shift in perspective…

Ohhh my, this really is a new language! That’s what I’m holding onto at the end of my first week. All languages take time to master though often you have to want to master them. This, I’m not so sure about. This is not the quality of insight that Bonnie Barton has generously detailed in her dating experiences https://bonniebarton.medium.com/

For those of you that have read my previous piece https://medium.com/@rightfuture/writing-the-perfect-dating-app-bio-for-someone-thats-never-been-on-one-257e31a3d058 you’ll know that I wasn’t that keen on Dating Apps being right for me and how I ‘work’. I like personal, one on one, direct recognition of seeing a human, real person.

I have a posse of three women that I’ve known for 30 years. We all worked together at one stage and they’ve been great friends even as I slipped away from them during my marriage. Having been single for a while now, and frankly, not expecting any reason to emerge for that to change, they’ve been ‘at me’ for well over a year to get on a dating app. I’ve explained to them that I’m in a developing friendship that could be heading somewhere more involved — they haven’t met her so don’t believe me. That’s a timing issue more than anything else and the relationship is moving slowly…