Suffering From Dating Exhaustion

As many of you are aware; I have been losing some steam with my frantic dating pace. I’m pooped! Trying to coordinate schedules, trying to remember people’s names (I’ve almost slipped up a few times and started to call them by their blog names). I'm annoyed and tired of sharing my time. I woke up yesterday morning convinced that I needed to take a break. If I don’t, I’ll risk becoming a jaded and bitter dater.

I’m going out with “Eugenio” tomorrow. I’m going to talk to him and let him know that as much as like hanging out with him, I can’t offer him more than friendship. (It’s me not him… blah blah blah) I don’t plan on telling him the whole truth… which is “I’m tired and bored of dating.” Instead, I’m going to explain to him that I have some things I need to figure out. (Which if you think about it… is the honest truth! I need to figure out why I attract some of these guys.)

I stopped emailing with “Darin”. I’m going to step back from that situation and let it go. But, if he tries to contact me again, I will definitely let you all know.

I’ve had some great conversations with many of my readers over the past few days:

“The Little Prince” thinks I need to be more protective of my time and more discriminate in my dating choices. His exact words: “Seriously Jane, This whole "give everyone a chance" theory that you have is rubbish with regard to dating.”

“The Little Prince” was actually in attendance at the event where I was introduced to “Creepy John” and “Mr. Personality”. He watched the entire saga unfold. This was his assessment of the situation, “Jane, I could have told you “Creepy John” was creepy the night you met him and “Mr. Personality” stands for “Mr. Poser”… straight up!” (Little Prince, I agree with you… even though sometimes I feel like you are way up high on your own planet looking down at the rest of us… while you attempt to catch shooting stars in your hand… and sail away with them through the sky.)

“Cali-Goose” (formerly referred to as Hermosa Beach) thinks I’m a dumbass and too nice to these guys (except he used expletives). I disagree with his first comment, but concur with the second. “Cali-Goose” seems to think I won’t stick with my commitment not to date… at least not for more than a few weeks. (This time I swear I’m really going to try to stick to it… at least until the next really cool guy asks me out… hee hee.)

One of my newest readers is a man I dated a few years ago. His comment to me was: “Jane, I am so glad you weren’t writing this website when we were dating.” Then he added, “Would you have given me a cool name? What would my name have been?” I told him he would have been called “Mr. Full of Himself”. He liked that!

So, I guess this post is my official announcement that I’M GOING ON A LONG TERM DATING SABBATICAL (FYI “long term” means a month or two). I promise I will continue to post updates if anything new happens with “40 Year Old”, “Creepy John” or “Darin”, but not with “Eugenio”. He’s a great guy. I don’t want him subjected anymore to the scrutiny of this website. (He deserves better than me.)

This website is now (for the period of my dating sabbatical) dedicated to documenting funny stories of “Jane” turning down dates (with my own personal comments). I hope you enjoy these stories just as much!