Online Dating? Oh no, not ME!

If life hadn’t dealt me a consistent ragged flop of cards I would have failed to see the humor in finding the love of my life through an online dating site.  What are the odds?  Leave it to me a not once, but twice married single gal hell bent on staying that way to stumble upon, when least expected, a magnificent wonder of a gent. So, naturally I convinced myself as they say (just who are they anyway?) that, “The third time’s the charm!”

It all innocently started (at work) when a couple of girls decided that it was time for me to get my feet wet in the ocean of dating. Not so much that I wanted to date…More importantly as a filler to help the long and sometimes drawn out night shift pass more quickly.  To my chagrin the words that I live by, “life is simple…Just me, my dogs and my garden” had to go.  It was unanimous; the only way for a homebody recluse such as myself to meet someone would be to “check out” the cyber world of online dating.

Now for those of you who may not be familiar with this type of  stay at home dating it is a virtual buffet of men…or women, whatever suits your fancy. Just “wink” and let the fun begin! To me it was more like a buffet of shallowness… This online dating community went against the natural fiber of my being to not (always) judge a book by its cover…we judged and thought aloud he is G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S! or NOT!  After many night shifts spent gawking at hundreds of nameless faces on my computer screen…Alas Mi Hombre!

Now I confess that it isn’t as simple as that, choose a face and then say I do, forever and ever amen.  It was a process. That face on the computer screen although very appealing to the eye, had one (normally) red flag…a daughter.

In spite of my apprehension I decided to put on my big girl panties and bravely chanted to myself a new mantra, “I will do it all for L-O-V-E!“  Thinking simultaneously to myself, “What the heck, it can’t be anything worse that what I have experienced already”…so I thought.