So a personal update:
Apparently I've been dating and only realized it lately. I guess I was waiting for the word 'date' to pop up for it to be official.
We'd been introduced by a mutual friend, and we got together for dinner and a movie. Admittedly sounds like a date (and was followed by going to the park to watch the stars), but it's nothing I wouldn't do with friends, too. It felt a smidge ambiguous, and I didn't want to assume things.
Last night was our third date, and he used the word 'date.' I guess it was confirmation of what I'd been suspecting all along; felt like a date, looked like a date, probably was a date. I'm a little too analytical sometimes, though, so I didn't want to put a word on it that wasn't right. Even though I wasn't sure about the word, I went along with the flow because it felt good and nice. Sure, the word changes some things, but it also doesn't change the substance. I guess it's my Zen experience talking; sometimes naming something or analyzing it gets in the way of living it (definitely true!).
What gets me is how, well, unexpected it was. I wasn't really looking. I didn't meet him with that expectation. I wasn't prepared at all.
He's also moving away in a little while.
This fits into no one's five year plan.
But I don't much care right now. It's OK to let things be, to enjoy life as it unfolds in the present moment.
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I was talking to a girlfriend yesterday and we noted that most of the stuff we do together (dinners, movies, watching clouds) would be considered a "date" by our parents if one of us was a guy. (Incidentally, we got asked whether we're a couple about three times yesterday.)
I'm sorry that you weren't prepared for dating. Sometimes these things just happen... do you like him?
Hey- Remember how Elliott wasn't officially my boyfriend until like 6 months after we started seeing each other. Not quite like your situation (I assume...) but titles are dumb.
That being said: Kiss-y face?
Ariel- that is funny! That's why it took me a while to gather enough information to be sure that that's what was happening. I do enjoy his company a lot, that's for sure. Plus, he's handsome.
Alice- A gentleman wouldn't say such things. Especially on a blog his bishop knows about.
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