Match-ups, Fix-ups, and Blind Dates

[It's Wonderful]

Oh, family, can't live with 'em, an'... well, that's it really.
(Seriously though, I wuv 'em)

My mother has decided that I should start seeing the charming son of a friend of hers. Apparently, I'm no longer promised to "that tango dancer" in CA! This friend's son is quite a catch, he's tall, dark, and handsome, has an awesome apartment in the city, a fulfilling and quasi-lucrative job of framing and art restoration, and he's single! But, he's 10 years my senior (OK, I can handle that), and lives about 3000 miles away (huh? How's that going to work?) in Virginia. Ahh, mommy, what goes on in your lil' head, I wonder?

 

[lynn]

Hmm, that sounds like a similar experience i had - I was asked to have a long-d relationship with mom's friend's colleague's son (yeah, i know a bit of a stretch). I'm actually more than 5000 miles away from the guy and no, i've never met him (and possibly never will). Ah, the thing about the modern era is that we can "email" each other - goodness, maybe we can fall in love and get married over the internet as well :lol:??

 

[It's Wonderful]

LOL, if I can't dance with the fella, how am I supposed to fall in love? "Like", OK, "admire" etc, fine, but love? Uh uh, not gonna happen without a good dance :lol:

 

[lynn]

You guys can have webcam where he leads and you follow :lol:???

It's a hard admiring the person over the internet too - somehow i find people are always a bit different on/off line - not purposely lying but just....different.

 

[lynn]

Yes, this is true. I never realized that this is definitely one of the reasons why some of my friendships worked out and some died quickly. I could never pin point it.....but now that you said it, it makes sense. Somebody that were interested in me romantically, yet i wasn't interested at all, boiled down to this exact same thing. He wanted me to share information and i didn't want to because i believed he didn't need to know so much about me and i didn't feel comfortable sharing info with him for the short time that i knew him. Was before i knew he was that into me. Things turned really ugly from there...

Yikes, sorry to hear about your bad experience but that's the thing about relationships - you have to be on the same wavelength and sometimes when you don't know the person that well, you don't fel comfortable sharing the information....

The thing about best friends is that you respect each other, you have things in common and you enjoy doing things together - that's how you become best friends. You know the other person so well you can easily talk to them and you know they're trustworthy. It's no surprise that best friends fall for one another because there are no nasty surprises to deal with!

 

[Joe]

Oh, family, can't live with 'em, an'... well, that's it really.
(Seriously though, I wuv 'em)

My mother has decided that I should start seeing the charming son of a friend of hers. Apparently, I'm no longer promised to "that tango dancer" in CA! This friend's son is quite a catch, he's tall, dark, and handsome, has an awesome apartment in the city, a fulfilling and quasi-lucrative job of framing and art restoration, and he's single! But, he's 10 years my senior (OK, I can handle that), and lives about 3000 miles away (huh? How's that going to work?) in Virginia. Ahh, mommy, what goes on in your lil' head, I wonder?

Uh, you hop a flight to Dulles.

 

[brujo]

You guys can have webcam where he leads and you follow :lol:???

That only works until he tries the first dip...