Welcome to my 2015 Dating Year in Review. My regular year was great, filled with so many awesome things, like speaking at Women’s Conference, another successful charity garage sale, new roommates and many new friendships, a new Church calling, a new niece, a new sister-in-law, fun hikes and trips (Kansas City, New Orleans, Montana, Canada), […]
Relationships
30 reasons why I’m still single at age 30
In any type of normal conversation in which someone finds out I am single and [now] 30, invariably I hear a comment to the effect of “I just don’t understand why you’re not married.” I appreciate it. I do. Well, I mean I think I do. I am guessing that means they think I’m awesome […]
Second Date Anxiety
Nearly two years ago (next week in fact), I wrote a blog post about First Date Anxiety. The time has come for my follow-up post: Second Date Anxiety. It took so long because it’s been two years since someone asked me on a second date. Ok, I lie. I have been asked on several second dates […]
Online Dating Round 2
I put this as one of my Tinder profile pictures.I think it helped people see the real me. Yep, you read me right. I tried it again. TindereHarmonyLDS Planet Ok, so let’s be honest here. I only briefly looked at LDS Planet, and eHarmony was a three day free trial thing and I got freaked […]
Awkward First Dates: A Generational Experience
It was my first date in college. I had just turned 19. He was a returned missionary, 4 years old than I was. I had been on dates before. Ok, so only three. And two of those dates were with guys who were kind of dating other girls (they were those high school Mormon dating […]
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How to Make the Most out of your YSA Ward Experience
Whether or not you leave the ward with a ring on the fing, a YSA Ward is definitely (thankfully) not eternal. Even if you stay in the same place and never move, come 31, you’re outta there. Although it’s a temporary period, it can be, and should be, a time for growth. When I moved […]
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So…are you seeing anyone?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that young single adultish people, gathered together in any fashion, will at some point acknowledge or converse about dating and/or the lack thereof. In my many conversations with these my fellow singles, I often hear stories of friends being at a wedding and hearing, “You’re next”. Or stories of […]
Best Excuse to Get Out of a Date
A few Sundays ago, at our “Feeding the Poor” event (aka-feast on the fourth, a monthly event where, for no reason, we get fed after church, just because we’re single–life is hard, right?), we had a questionnaire to fill out for an upcoming activity. It asked questions, such as how old you were when you […]
First Date Anxiety
This is the only realsolution I found to FDA. Sometimes I complain because I don’t get asked on dates. But most times I complain when I do. Why? Because right before a first date, I get extreme First Date Anxiety (FDA). The kind where you make yourself sick enough that you think you’ll have to […]
My Foray into Online Dating
Yes, it is true. I once signed up for an account on an online dating site. I won’t say which one, but I will just say that it was for LDS Singles. (PS-Mom, this is confession time. I know I never told you about this, but now I have, so there!) It is true that […]