When I started writing online twenty years ago, it was a personal blog called Tired of Men (and Other Things That Drive a Twenty-Something Around the Twist) 😆 I often felt like a bad date clown that friends, family, strangers and colleagues wanted to perform at all manner of social occasions and every day moments. It enraged me that, every Monday, my boss would interrogate me about my love life. It eventually stopped when I pointed out that I didn’t ask him about whether he’d shagged his wife at the weekend. I got tired of the head tilts, people asking ‘Why are you still single?’, and being asked, each time I spoke to my mother, ‘Have you met anyone?’…even though we might have spoken the day before. It’s scary how little things have changed in twenty years!
Ha! I did not know this about you, Nat (I'm smiling a lot at that title – but also because 'bad date clown' is such a brilliant term). AND you met your husband relatively young, at least in now terms. I bet it's given you a big dose of empathy for the singletons you meet now, though!
When I started writing online twenty years ago, it was a personal blog called Tired of Men (and Other Things That Drive a Twenty-Something Around the Twist) 😆 I often felt like a bad date clown that friends, family, strangers and colleagues wanted to perform at all manner of social occasions and every day moments. It enraged me that, every Monday, my boss would interrogate me about my love life. It eventually stopped when I pointed out that I didn’t ask him about whether he’d shagged his wife at the weekend. I got tired of the head tilts, people asking ‘Why are you still single?’, and being asked, each time I spoke to my mother, ‘Have you met anyone?’…even though we might have spoken the day before. It’s scary how little things have changed in twenty years!
Ha! I did not know this about you, Nat (I'm smiling a lot at that title – but also because 'bad date clown' is such a brilliant term). AND you met your husband relatively young, at least in now terms. I bet it's given you a big dose of empathy for the singletons you meet now, though!