October 2010
75 posts
Now You Know →
Submitted by Paul: I met Mari at a tag sale that she was running. We spent over an hour talking, and she gave me her number. I bought a couple of books, because I would’ve felt weird if I didn’t…
September 2010
54 posts
Check the Number and Don't Dial Again →
Submitted by Wendy: My date with Rich was off-putting, but more so was what happened after. I met him online. His music choices were what piqued my interest at first, followed by his sense of…
What a Beach →
Submitted by Hunter: Rosa and I were in early dating stages when we decided to hit the New Jersey beach for a day. We packed up the car and drove there as early as we could, although several…
One Year Now
Over the weekend we celebrated our one year of officially being together. He surprised me with a trip to Temecula for some wine tastings. Everything was planned out perfectly - even the stop on the side of the road for me to throw up from drinking too much too fast.
He knows me well…
I can’t wait for the next year
Dressed and Unimpressed →
Submitted by Angela: Sam contacted me off of an online site. I checked out his profile and there were a few shots of him with his shirt off. Teasingly, I asked him if he ever wore clothes. He sent…
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Give Her Your Priest's Number →
Submitted by Bruce: It was my second time seeing Mia, a 29-year-old . I was over at her place, and we were on her couch, watching Finding Nemo. Early on in the film (which we had both seen before),…
Define "Time Off" →
Submitted by Elisa: Last summer, my boyfriend and I were taking some time apart when an old high school friend of mine came into the picture. Aaron and I moved in the same circles in high school…
Who Wore Short Shorts? →
Submitted by Joe: Corinne was a dancer (in a regional troupe) who I met on the Internet. She came across as serious about her work, but also as someone who was able to relax during down time. Down…
8 myths about being single →
via Match.com
Myth #1: Singles are less happy than married people
…getting married hardly changes someone’s happiness at all. Some married people experience a tiny blip in happiness around the time of the wedding. (On an 11-point scale, they are about one-quarter of one point happier.) But that is just a honeymoon effect. They soon go back to being as happy or as unhappy as they were when...
He Was a Prize in a Cracker Jack Box →
Submitted by Tara: Steve was a very attractive guy who I had hung out with a couple of times. He seemed like a nice guy, was a decent kisser, went to my school, and was only a couple of years older…
Going Vesuvius →
Submitted by Mary: On the day of my date with Roger, I woke up with a sour stomach. It was normal for me to sometimes have a little bit of an ache before eating, but this was different - it felt as…
'Ol Smoke-Mouth →
Submitted by Michael: I nearly fell out of my chair when I found Rita’s profile on an online dating site. Here, finally, was a girl who had a great personality, was hysterical, and was hot as hot…
Anger Not the Water Gods →
Submitted by Erin: Walter was an old friend of mine from elementary school and beyond. In high school, we had connected through a mutual love of music. We hadn’t hung out much in recent years, but…
Lady Unluck →
Submitted by Ray: Donna and I met at a professional conference at the Excalibur in Vegas. She caught my eye at a presentation and I sought her out afterward. We talked, had drinks in a group, and…
Time to Expand Your Reading List →
Submitted by Sia: I had an anthropology class with Adam. He was tall and gawky, and I didn’t think that he was too attractive, but he was always very nice, and seemed like he’d make a good friend. One day, around the end of the semester, he asked me out to dinner. I told him that I’d be glad to go, but that I wasn’t interested in dating. He sounded fine with that.
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What Happens in the Woods →
Submitted by Trey: Brianna and I had been on a couple of dates and seemed to have great chemistry. One weekend, she went out camping with some friends. I wished her a good time, and we planned to…
A Closet Is No Place for a Mighty Woman →
Submitted by Joanna: Corey and I had been on one date already, and it had gone well enough for us to kiss goodnight… for twenty minutes. Needless to say, I was really looking forward to seeing him…
The New Dating Tools: A Card and a Wink →
Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing autobiographies and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real-world romance.
Some companies offer a combination of flirty calling cards and Web pages. Others operate dating applications that use the global positioning systems in...
Orbiting Twin Sons →
Submitted by Architect: Melissa contacted me on one of the many dating websites and introduced herself. I was pretty psyched because she was super cute and seemed to have her life together. She had…
The Ball, the Chain, and the Muumuu →
Submitted by Elizabeth: James chatted me up at a bar, and I gave him my number. His first time calling me, he asked if we could meet up for a date. It was a little fast, but he made the case that we…
Last Night's Cell Count Came Up One Short →
Submitted by Alex: My first time calling Alicia (we had met online), she asked me if I was a “protector or a predator.” I wasn’t sure if it was a reference to something, but the logical answer…
Welcome to the Hotel. No Touching Privileges. →
Submitted by Diane: James seemed like a really nice guy over e-mail, so after a little while I felt good about meeting up with him in person. He showed up looking good, but he dragged a huge black…
http://www.thedeliciouslife.com/en-sushi-its-over-i...
You can do that – make the mistake of breaking up, then spend the time working it out, wooing them back, “making up” – when you’re 21 or 25. Maybe even 29. Not when you’re old. Not when you’re 32. If you make a mistake, you have very little time to make up for it. That’s why they say invest riskily when you’re young because you have time to make up for your losses. But when you’re 32, you have...
Your Clothes Are Dry, But You Smell Funny →
Submitted by Andrew: I was a little early in arriving at Christina’s house to pick her up for our second date. Our first one had gone very well, and I was looking forward to seeing her a second…
Burning Love →
Submitted by Ginny: I worked at a restaurant for close to two years when one of my coworkers, Ben, came onto me pretty hard. He was younger than I was, but was a funny guy and damn attractive to…
http://www.thedeliciouslife.com/hms-bounty-why-sara...
The truth of the matter of the heart is that I do not know what I want. I am so totally fuct in the head that I have absolutely no clue what I want, no clue what I think I want, and no clue what I think I think I want. Or think. Or want. My thoughts and wants are never aligned with one another, and they change in non-aligning value every day. It’s kind of like playing a twisted game of Russian...
And She Don't Care →
Submitted by Brendan: Alyssa and I found each other on a dating site. I was just out of a relationship wherein my then-girlfriend had taken things way too seriously (example: I left a container of…
"This Place Is an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet" →
Submitted by Stephanie: I knew Chris from church, and he always struck me as handsome and nice, but also a bit of a loner. I was surprised when he joined our youth group’s weekend hiking trip. …
The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’ →
What is it that makes a culture unique? What tastes, interests, and concepts define an ethnic group? How is the self-concept of, say, a black person different from that of a white or Asian person?…
Hello Ex-Voxers
I know a few of you are probably here because Vox died. Thanks for hanging with me.
About this tumblr - it’s not 100% my blog about dating. I also import feeds from other dating blogs. I started this place to be a more open-ended virtual place about the subject of dating, and not a diary of my dating life.
From now on though, it will be a place for both.
I’m currently importing...
Why to Always Keep a Labeling Marker On Hand →
Submitted by Bruce: Last fall, my brother asked me if I could pick up my niece from her kiddie gym around midday. I did, and while there I met Nora, one of the instructors. Nora had a fantastic…
Where Forty Minus Twenty Equals Just One →
Submitted by Dean: I was the bad date, on this one. I was drunk at a party my senior year of college, and fell in with Patty, another senior. We talked about this and that and at some point or…
Bad to Worse to Worst to Best →
Submitted by Hannah: For our first date, Robert suggested going ice skating. I thought it was a great idea and original compared to a lot of dates I’d been on. The only rink in the area was over an…
So long, godspeed.
This is an entry I’m re-posting from a VOX neighbor.
I haven’t really bothered with VOX in a couple of years. I posted somewhat regularly in 2007, but after Facebook swept in, I slowly drifted away from blogging here. I guess a lot of people did the same, as VOX is now shutting its virtual doors. I kind of hoped this little archive of my life would hang around in the aether...
Willow Me This, Willow Me That →
Submitted by Mia: Lloyd and I met in a park. He struck up a conversation with me while I was reading a magazine, and we clicked instantly. By the time he left, it hadn’t even occurred to me that we…
Why Sarah Will Be Blogging Instead of *ahem*… on...
What it is that I really feel is not unbalancementedness, nor is it a desire to manufacture brand new words because I have a limited vocabulary of my own; it is stress. I feel this underwhelmingly overwhelming pressure to perform, and not just perform, but perform in accordance with the standard operating procedure for Valentine’s Day. I have Valentine’s Day performance anxiety. Make royally...
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
VOX closing is the worst breakup experience of this blog. It not just about my relationship with this blog, but about all the friends and support group I’ve made through the blog. Since the rug has been pulled out from under all of us, we’re scrambling. We’re lost. We’re sinking and swimming in a panicked state in all sorts of directions. Where are you going? I feel like...
I Would Do Handstands for You →
Submitted by Stanley: Nell was a girl I had wanted to ask out for over six years. We went through elementary, junior high, and senior high school together, but I never developed the nerve to ask her…
Action at the Old Folks' Home →
Submitted by Sierra: Ken and I worked together at a retirement complex. We were good friends, teasing and talking, for a while. His overtures became flirtatious, and despite having a bad experience…
The Checklist vs. Chemistry
Whether they choose to admit it or not, whether it’s a physical piece of writing or not, whether they choose to share its components out loud or not, whether they actually “use” it or not, everyone has The Checklist. They may not packagually evaluate “candidates” with it, but yes, they all have The Checklist.
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Her Little Secret →
Submitted by Ethan: I had a profile up on a site that I hadn’t checked in a long time. When I was notified that someone had actually found my profile and messaged me, I wasn’t too excited. Then I…
If You Give a Louse a Cookie →
Submitted by Katelynn: I met Steve online and he seemed normal enough through e-mail. I met him at a restaurant near me and started to get a bad feeling about the date when he texted me two minutes…