I truly enjoy facebook! I like making people laugh with status updates that may be actual circumstances or just random crap that I either make up or run across somewhere else on the web. Yesterday my status was something about men needing to have color coded tags to, you know, take some of the guess work out of it. Green for single. Red for NOT SINGLE. Flashing light for Moron...
The whole post got me thinking about my "singleness". Being single doesn't bother me, but there are things about having a significant other that I miss. And I think I will forever be a hopeful (definitely not hopeless) romantic because I haven't completely given up the idea of "Mr. Right" being out there... despite the fact that lately I've met a lot of Mr's that make me wonder. For instance: In a week's time I've met Mr. Know it all (Blue Tag), Mr. Egotistical (Orange Tag), and Mr. Player(Grey Tag). Yep.. all in a week. I've also had the displeasure of meeting Mr. Newly Separated (Black Tag)What a mess! Mr. Married keeps popping up in different forms and has for the past three years.(Always RED Tags please!) Mr. Alcoholic and Mr. Needy have been recent acquaintances as well.(Let's go with purple on Mr. Alcoholic and yellow on Mr. Needy!)
I actually had 2 of my guy friends text me after reading that post to ask what color they were!
Mr Newly Separated has like 4 kids who are all still living at home. He's bitter and angry, planning on getting revenge with his soon to be ex-wife and using the kids and a great attorney to do so. He's got a lot on his plate with all of his revenge.. but he still thinks it would be a great idea to take me out to dinner. Cool huh? YIKES! A tag on him would have been so awesome!
The various Mr. Marrieds are my least favorite Misters. They give me the heebie jeebies. There are a LOT of them out there. They all have different reasons as to why they think it would be okay to cheat on their unsuspecting wives. The worst of them doesn't really want to cheat on his wife.. he just wants to have an emotional affair with me because "I understand him" "I make him laugh" "I'm always on his mind" It truly makes me want to throw up. I finally learned how to be mean and ignore him. It took me long enough. Being brutally honest with him didn't work at all. The other Mr. Marrieds were fairly easy to dissuade. They were after one thing, and if I couldn't help them out they were happy to move on down the road. Tags would have made meeting them so much better! In fact, tags probably would have kept me from meeting most of them all together!
So there really is no point to this post, except for that my facebook fun got me thinking about it all, and I realized that I had something to say and so did my friends!
In the mean time, I will continue to enjoy my singleness.. and probably dream at least a little bit of that Mister Amazing that might want to come along and change that! For the most part I'm still quite appreciative of my uncomplicated life. I think deep down inside I know that Mister Right wouldn't change that.. if he's the right one, it won't be complicated.
I'd love to hear from you ladies and guys alike. Tell me about your "Mr.Potentials" and your "Miss Maybes". Even if you're married now.. if you have a story about some of the Misters and Misses that came along before please share!
And for those of you my lucky, lucky friends who got it right the first time without having to endure the wrong ones first.. you are SO blessed! I hope you know just how much!
Ok I'll try this again ... of course it won't be as good as the first one I tried to post, LOL!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT!!!!!!
Yes tagging all the men would be easier but we would probably still find ourselves poking and prodding just to see if we could see how deep their tags described them!
I think I'm attracted to "Mr. Unavailable" .... emotionally unavailable, distance or whatever the case may be. I believe I purposefully do this to avoid the remote possiblity that I would have to deal with a "real" relationship.
My favorite line in your blog is "if he's the right one, it won't be complicated".
I know this week I'll not be able to look at a man without imagining what color his tag would be!
Cheers to everyone that believes that there is a Mr. Right and to the rest of us, that may be a bit jaded, here's hoping that we'll be completely blindsided someday and Mr. Right will magicly appear or better yet someone will be able to invent a way to bake us the man that will be perfect for us .... notice I said ... not the perfect man ... but the man that will be perfect for us.
I don't know how I missed this blog the first time around but I know that the Mr. Marrieds and otherwise engaged men gig used to be my thing- and what a horrible way to be! I've had people hate me for it or forgive me for it (which feels even worse, actually). I used to feel guilty and like a crappy person- always waiting for the other shoe to drop in the new life that I have and some sort of karmic punishment to occur for the wrongs I have done unto others. I've forgiven myself now for being the awful way that I was and I know that I would never do that to someone else or to myself again. It makes me sick when I get hit on by marrieds now and I try to laugh it off like it's a big joke. I've since learned to be brutally blunt. Telling some men you are happy in your current relationship/not interested makes them try even harder and it's quite pathetic and annoying!
ReplyDeleteIt took me a long time to grow up and stop hating myself and begin to respect myself- not long after that Mr. Right found me. I didn't even believe at the time that there was such a thing but there is.
It's obvious that who you are is truly shining through and is attracting all kinds! You are inspirational, amazing and lovely with a great outlook on life and the gift to communicate what you feel... it's not surprising that EVERYONE is drawn to that. It'll be an amazing thing when someone WORTHY of you finds you. I'm now a hopeless romantic because I live it every day- I absolutely believe that everyone has someone out there that fits them perfectly and gives them what they need even when they weren't sure that they needed it to begin with!