I posted an ad on Craigslist yesterday. Although I’m feeling the urge again to share myself with someone, after two and a half years, I’m not sure how to approach it. So I put up a personals ad to see if it would give me some ideas about how to put myself back into the pool. It went a little something like this…
-I have to be honest, I’m ridiculously busy – but I’m also feeling the absence of something in my life. I’m missing someone charming and fun, sorta geeky, loves coffee and arts and adventure. I’m missing the guy who loves to take day trips to the beach or sleeps on the grass in Washington Park on a sunny day or rides the MAX just to people watch.
I miss the guy who loves to shoe shop with a lady then later that day find a good puddle of mud to go driving through.
I miss the guy who is as excited about my independence as I am and who doesn’t mind when I need to be alone for awhile or the times that I practically want to sleep right on top of him. I miss the guy who wants to talk all night even when we have to get up early and we’re both exhausted. I miss the guy who respects my need to do things my own way – right or wrong or inconvenient. I miss the guy who knows what a “safe word” is and honors it without question.
I miss the guy I want to wake up next to, laugh with, tease and adore. I miss the guy who wants to read in the park or wander downtown for hours on foot. I miss the guy who stops mid-sentence as something beautiful stalls his thoughts, be it a flower or a sunrise or a woman.
I miss the man who will read my body language as though he’s known me all his life, and whose body I read as though he were my favorite most beloved novel. I long for the man who will make me forget where I was going because he is a better journey than I could have ever imagined. -
I’ve gotten a lot of responses asking if he was an ex – or if I want to be a sub, or telling me they have a stable job, yadda-yadda. There have been a few good responses and I emailed some of them back, but I’m still at a loss. The really flattering thing is that I’ve gotten several very complimentary emails about my writing style, one guy asked if I made the last line up, “I long for the man who will make me forget where I was going because he is a better journey than I could have ever imagined.” And said I should consider becoming a writer for a living – which gave an enormous ego boost I grinned about it all day.
I don’t know yet, if the internet is the way to go. But it’s a start. It’s a step in the right direction. Here it goes.
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