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Diana's Dating for
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Introduction... |
| Diana is an attractive, sophisticated single
lady living in the South of England. She recently
decided to write a personal blog, telling of her own
dating experiences and has kindly agreed that we at
Dating Britain can share these with you. |
| Please note that Diana is a personal friend of
Dating Britain's principal John Hunt and not a
member of any of our dating services........Enjoy! |
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Ta-da!
Today I took a break from online dating.
I started my day with a meeting with a male business contact. One of
the good guys. I then went on to have a reflective day with
girlfriends and I realise how polar opposite they are to the losers
I've come across on the dating sites. It's helped me get things into
perspective.
My girlfriends are constant, reliable, supportive friends. Never
making false promises, never fibbing or building me up to a date
which they cancel at short notice, never pointing the finger of
blame at me for their own weaknesses and shoddy behaviour. I
realised today how strong my network of girlfriends is, how involved
and genuinely interested they are in every aspect of my life,
including my business which they follow with almost as much
enthusiasm and excitement as I do!
I wonder if that is why I haven't yet found a partner? Finding
someone to match all the qualities I have in my girlfriends and a
few true male friends is going to be difficult, although not
impossible. The bar is set high. Certainly the fibbers and
philanderers will never make the grade - but would I want them too?
Nope. Would I want someone else's sloppy seconds? Nope.
I love having reliable male friends who are regular in their contact
but those who blow hot and cold, the fair weather friends, the ones
who only get in touch because they want something, I tire easily of.
Each time they make contact after weeks and months of unexplained
absence, I wonder what it is they want from me and it becomes rather
shallow, rather boring and very predictable.
My criteria is for someone interesting. Someone who will stimulate
my mind, who will be adventurous, exciting, bold, ballsy enough to
be upfront instead of cowardly hiding behind fibs and feeble
excuses.
Is that so much to ask? Still pondering, still hankering, I went out
this evening for cocktails to launch a friends business. Meeting up
with a handful of my treasured girlfriends and loving being
comfortable in their company, laughing together, supporting each
other, being photographed together and respecting and admiring them
all for their talent, integrity and wisdom I arrived home tired, but
checked my emails before falling into bed.
The weekly alert came through on the dating site while I was
trawling through the usual yawn-inducing messages. I normally delete
these notifications without reading but something made me open this
latest one and............................... Ta-da!
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