carleymeiners

I’m kind of chuckling to myself that I just titled a blog post about dating that way. Somehow though I keep reminding myself that, that cliche saying is the way I need to look at dating.

If you don’t know already, which from this blog you can probably tell, I like to rush into relationships that are extremely exciting in the beginning, and utterly shattering in the end. To be honest, I didn’t think it was possible for me to fall for someone again so soon. Somehow it’s happened though, and I’m scared.

Last fall, I told the guy I was seeing we needed to take things slow since I just came out of a serious relationship. He wasn’t having that. I found myself in an ultimatum, where I knew I didn’t want to lose the guy, but I knew I didn’t want to be in a relationship. Well according to my previous post “Don’t Mess With Texas” that didn’t turn out too well.

This fall, I told the guy I was seeing the same thing, and to my surprise he agreed. At first I contemplated his actions, thinking okay maybe he isn’t as into to me as I thought. I have been proven wrong so many times since then.

On our first date he brought me flowers. No guy I’ve ever dated has EVER bought me flowers on the first date, even though that the cliche thing to do (I really like cliche when it comes to dating 🙂 ). He texts me everyday, and calls when we’re in different towns. He doesn’t get annoyed when I have a million things to do for reporting, and can’t see him until the weekend. He lets me have my own life, and I let him have his. He’s asked me to be exclusive twice now, but when I finally agreed he said he still has to think about things.

Then one night he asked me to come over. When I got there he told me there was a reason he wanted me to come over, so we could talk.

Ultimately that is the worst conversation starter in the dating world, but somehow I wasn’t nervous. (Sidenote: almost tow years ago my ex broke up with me in his car, in my driveway, after texting me “we need to talk.” aka WORST. LINE. EVER.)

To my surprise this new boy just wanted to learn more about me than he already knew (we’ve been dating for a little over a month at this point). I cannot express the butterflys I got when he stared at me intently waiting for me to respond with information about my life. In my head, all I was thinking was “is this really happening?”

*Note: He still continues to surprise me 2 years later 😉