Let's Do The Run Down...

Two years ago my marriage of almost 5 years ended. My ex-wife has now been in a relationship for well over a year. Good for her.

1.) I became involved with a woman who enabled my every self-destructive urge. We were not dating. She met someone else and I decided I wanted to date her. Three months later there was a bitter break-up. She then started dating the guy she really wanted to be with in the first place. They are still together...this week.

2.) I started seeing someone whom I had been interested in for some time. Things were fine for a while then nothing. She decided she didn't want to be tied down (figuratively) to just one person. Unless she needed something. For close to ten months now we've had plans to "get together soon."

3.) The girl I was madly in love with in my twenties made a return to my life around the same time that girl #2 started coming around. She swore up and down that we were meant to be together and that she wasn't going to give up until that happened. Then she started dating one of my friends. They broke up. She is currently involved with someone else. Go figure.

4.) In the mean time I met two different girls that I really liked. But both of them were already taken. Timing is everything, I guess.

5.) When I started cleaning up my life someone reached out to me and we became close. I can now say that I was starting to fall for her. Then her object of affection became available and she started spending every waking moment with him. I've barely seen or spoken to her since. I'm glad they're happy.

6.) Next came an old friend. I really didn't want to get involved with her because we are such good friends but I gave in. That was going pretty well until I realized her kids were freaking me out quite a bit. Last time I talked to her she had designs on a new guy.

7.) And that brings us to now. A new girl and a new problem. Well, not really new. It seems she's become more interested in a friend of mine than she is in me. Good for her. I hope they have lots of babies together.

Being single is a minefield filled with pretty faces and hurt feelings. The funny thing is that the two girls on this list I liked the most are the two that found someone else right at the time we stared getting close. I guess I'm the one to hang out with if you want to find your next boyfriend. Lucky me!!