Divorce makes me so sad but the idea of post-divorce dating makes me suicidal.
“We separated as friends a year ago, sharing custody of two teenagers who adjusted surprisingly well to the split. I’ve got the big house in the ‘burbs, and Craig and his girlfriend Heather live in his condo on the lake (by my calculation, she was two years old on our wedding day, I feel compelled to mention). Something really shifted inside me when Heather moved into Craig’s place. I realized that it was time to give up the secret fantasy that Craig and I might get back together again someday. That’s when I finally took my wedding picture off the shelf in the family room and packed it away and said to myself, it’s time to move on. So that’s what I’m doing.”
I don’t know if Sarah Susannah Katz means to sound guileless, but in Single in the suburbs her experience with Match.com just sounds so desperate while her ex just kindly moves on.
Then, Single in the suburbs, part 2 — egad!
“I begin to think about how my ex-husband Craig plunged back into dating with a vengeance as soon as we separated. Like I’ve said, this is a small town, and I received almost daily debriefings from well-meaning friends. They’d share accounts of my ex-husband’s escapades, which included dating three out of five waitresses at what used to be our favorite downtown seafood restaurant and a romp in the woods with a history professor at the departmental barbecue.”
Well, my advice for Sarah Susannah Katz is to throw away all of her jeans — they’re all mom jeans, I assure you, and get some COH or 7s butt jeans.
Of course, all the dates in part 2 are disasters. Must have been the jeans.
Oh, and I would like to translate what your friend Kevin actually meant when Kevin said:
“I’m still raw from a break-up, it’s too soon for me to get serious. So if it’s OK with you, I’d like to try friendship first. How does that sound?”
What Kevin actually means is:
“I’m still enjoying being totally single and having lots of sex, it’s too soon for me to get serious at all. So if it’s OK with you, I’d like to try just having lots and lots of casual lemming sex in the form of friends with privileges which will go nowhere because I will never respect you and leave you at the first sign of someone more fitting to be my girlfriend and next wife. How does that sound?”
Poor baby, poor baby. Sweet poor Sarah Susannah Katz.
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Ouch!! Those are some pretty harsh comments, with all due respect, I find it difficult to understand how you can truly understand this situation not actually having ANY thing at all in common with this woman. Ps I came by your site accidentally and do appreciate you have the right to express your (ODD) oppinion but really!!!
You are right. She just throws herself at anyone. Sleeps with them even when she does not want to, just because she feels since her husband is having sex, she should too. And she is awfully judgmental. She gets all upset when one guy told her he preferred someone more athletic looking (of course this means he is shallow, while if she does it, it is just being selective). She is the first one to get on a guy’s physical defects. So, the man should overlook any physical imperfections in her, while she is picking his to pieces. Right. She deserves to be alone. I know this is late, but as her blog goes on, she gets more and more ridiculous, desperate and sleazy as she just hope into bed with guys she barely tolerates.
I find her blog interesting. I think she is lonely, not sleazy. And she seems to have a high level of self awareness and a great sense of humor. There have been guys she didn’t even approach because she knew they were looking for someone who was physically fit. Demographics are very harsh for overweight middle aged women.