Dating Interests (not a relationship)

The Christian – Year Active: 2012 – Guy I met online in 2012.  We went on a date and a half before I asked him to take me home.  At 32, he still lived with his parents and complained a lot about doing housework. (Archives)

Broderick – Years Active – 2012 – Guy I met online in 2012.  We had another date and a half.  I liked him at first, but then realized he was kind of lackluster. We simply stopped talking.  (Archives)

2.0 – Years Active: 2011 – 2012. Other Nicknames: Rocketman, The Canadian – Met in 2011.  He lived in Orlando. We saw each other a couple of times, and continued to talk a little after, but I got hooked up with Botboy, and we stopped chatting.  (Archives)

The Australian – Years Active: 2022. Met on OkCupid in 2022. He lives in Sydney. We corresponded for about a month. He makes the blog only because there was talk of founding something with each other – “watering a sapling”. Current Status: Ghost. (Current)

Exes

1.0 – Years Active: 1997 – 2014 (off and on) – Met online in 1997. Met in person in 2001.  Dated from 2001 to 2002. Talked in 2008. Talked again in 2014.  Ultimately I found him to be a little pushy and insensitive and decided, in the end, to walk away.  (Archives)

3.0 (a.k.a. Gatsby) – Years Active: 2012 – 2021.  Dated from 2011 to 2012. Broke up because he was emotionally unavailable and “not sold”. He came back for a final fling in 2013 after Botboy left.  I entertained it, watched him get emotionally attached, then decided he just wasn’t what I needed after all, despite the fact that he was very wealthy.  He’s called “Gatsby” because, like Gatsby, he had everything he could possibly want materially, but couldn’t have what he wanted emotionally.  In 2021 we reconnected.  I’m not sure whether he was sober or not, but he tried to purchase the use of my uterus.  As one does. (Archives)

Mr. Ex – Years Active: 2002 – 2014.  Married in 2006. Divorced in 2008.  Stayed in touch (and tried to get back together, briefly) until 2014.  (Archives)

Buttface (a.k.a. Emperor Slade, Emperor Buttface) – Years Active: 1997 – 2014. Met in 1997 on the internet.  Had an internet flirtation, off and on, from 1997 – 2008.  Met in person in 2008 when he moved from Florida to Columbus.  Started an affair that lasted two years.  We never made it “official” I guess – though we agreed that if he started sleeping with someone else he’d tell me because I didn’t want an STD.  I don’t think he held up his end of the bargain (not because I have an STD, but because I found condoms, several times, near his bed when I’d come visit and they weren’t for me – and I always saw the famous “oh shit” look on his face when he’d realized he left them out). He eventually eventually became exclusive with a 17 year old girl (when he was 31) that lived in Oklahoma. We did not talk for a long time, I was pissed at him. We got back in contact in 2010 after I’d moved to Florida.  We remained friends for a little while… but eventually he found someone to be exclusive with and, after that, we stopped talking (which is fairly normal behavior).  (Archives)

Botboy – Years Active: 2013-2014. Met online in 2013.  Got close during Christmas of 2013 when he was stationed in Afghanistan and I was alone over the holidays.  Started an internet fling (relationship?… gf/bf was used) that lasted the length of his deployment, until he came home, took all of his toys (literally) out of my closet, and left me for no apparent reason except that he freaked out. It might’ve had to do with dirty dishes in the sink, but you know what, I think that’s a pretty pathetic reason.  We rekindled contact in late 2013. I agreed to wait for him through another deployment, but when he stopped communicating with me, I decided to begin living my life (though I waited for him, as promised, until his deployment was over)  When he did not come to me, I moved on with Lord Ormsby. In August of 2014, Botboy finally called and during that conversation, he told me that he could not be what I needed him to be. We agreed to remain friends, but when I moved back to Louisville and became exclusive with POS (see below), he dropped the connection.  We reconnected in 2020 – ironically thanks to POS, and are now friends.  (Archives and Current)

POS – Years Active: 2005 -2021.  Met in 2005, when I applied for a position with a magazine he was putting together. Worked on the magazine for a few months, then lost contact when I married Mr. Ex. We briefly chatted again after the divorce in 2008, but I did not see him in person again until 2014 when I flew into Louisville for my sister’s wedding.  We hooked up that weekend, then I flew back to Louisville assuming it was a one time thing.  But I kept flying up and back and, eventually, six months later in November of 2014, I moved back to Louisville to live with him.  We got engaged in 2016 in Puerto Rico.  In late 2016 we moved to Florida together.  We broke up in August of 2020 after he threw a Point of Sale (POS) system in the floor at KFC because they didn’t have his chicken, resulting in his arrest. (Archives and Current)

The Professor – Years Active: 2002 – 2021. Met online in 2002.  Dated through the first half of the year. Broke up because he accepted a teaching job in another state. Talked through 2014, briefly discussed meeting at Disney World in 2013, but he was freshly divorced (and by freshly I mean it wasn’t even final yet) and I wasn’t in a place where I wanted to wait for him.  I was also reeling after Botboy’s abrupt departure and decided I couldn’t be what he needed me to be.  Seven years later, in August of 2020, we got back in contact and started “talking” again (i.e. – loosely seeing each other?  He’s called “dibs”?  I dunno).  Romance in the time of COVID was weird.  He broke it off in April of 2021.  We’ve since sort of reconnected and are friends(ish) again.  (Archives and Current)

Geoff – Year active: 2022.  Met online.  Dated for a couple of months.  Went kind of fast into an exclusive arrangement.  He changed his mind… no real idea why (though I have theories – and no… not that he was with someone else, more of a psychological nature).  I saw the change and we mutually decided it was best to break it off.  (Current)

Friends

Mary – Years Active: 1987 – Present. Met in elementary school.  Was been my constant Kentucky sidekick for many, many years. (Archives)

Chuck – Years Active: 2013 – Present. Met at work in 2013. Also a sidekick in Tampa… chat buddy, phone buddy, Adventures of Prowl sidekick, etc.  (Archives)

Cole – Years Active: 2002 – Present.  Met in college.  Current co-host of the podcast.  This guy is fucking brilliant – and also has no filter.  (Current)