Hi Bria (DeDe!), Just a positive story to encourage you. I was just like you - I mean JUST like you - as you describe yourself, particularly in this post and the one from a couple days ago "I'll Wait" ...
I dated like crazy, went through several up-and-down relationships, was engaged twice (once for a year, once for 17 hours!), but it just never gelled. Never met that right "One" and definitely began to despair of ever doing so. At the age of 32, I gave up. Told my best friend, "That's it, forget it, no more dating till I'm 50, I can't take it."
That very night, feeling liberated, I went to dinner at a nice restaurant with him and his wife. I noticed a woman across the room. One thing led to another, and I ended the evening in a long, funny, brilliant conversation with her, alone. And guess what? I wound up marrying her!
I was (and am) very very very lucky, because I did indeed meet "the One" and am so happy because of it. And she's brilliant, easily the smartest person I've ever met - man or woman, and I've met the world's geniuses. She has never hidden it either, as far as I can tell.
So don't hide your mind .. or your heart ... from those you meet, and especially from those you like. The man you're meant to be with is going to want to have that long intelligent conversation with you, and he's going to realize very quickly that he never wants it to end... :)
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Just a positive story to encourage you. I was just like you - I mean JUST like you - as you describe yourself, particularly in this post and the one from a couple days ago "I'll Wait" ...
I dated like crazy, went through several up-and-down relationships, was engaged twice (once for a year, once for 17 hours!), but it just never gelled. Never met that right "One" and definitely began to despair of ever doing so. At the age of 32, I gave up. Told my best friend, "That's it, forget it, no more dating till I'm 50, I can't take it."
That very night, feeling liberated, I went to dinner at a nice restaurant with him and his wife. I noticed a woman across the room. One thing led to another, and I ended the evening in a long, funny, brilliant conversation with her, alone. And guess what? I wound up marrying her!
I was (and am) very very very lucky, because I did indeed meet "the One" and am so happy because of it. And she's brilliant, easily the smartest person I've ever met - man or woman, and I've met the world's geniuses. She has never hidden it either, as far as I can tell.
So don't hide your mind .. or your heart ... from those you meet, and especially from those you like. The man you're meant to be with is going to want to have that long intelligent conversation with you, and he's going to realize very quickly that he never wants it to end...
:)