Tale as old as time: whirlwind connection until the man freaks out, switches up, and tells me he’s not ready for a relationship and needs to go solo travelling in SE Asia.
Typical months of spending the week together doing couple things, sex gets even better and more intimate, but he still maintains he doesn’t want to date anybody right now. We’re only sleeping with each other and seriously promised we’d say if that changed since we’re having unprotected sex every week.
Fine. I do want a relationship but I’m not ready to let go of the connection. The only way I ever get over a spark like this is by finding a new spark.
So I’ve had a few thousand matches on Hinge and I’ve been putting off dates because deep down I was hoping we’d eventually slip into a relationship. But he’s leaving soon and I know I’ll be devastated when he goes, so I’m trying to build a new connection before that happens to cushion it.
A wealthy older guy asked me out for drinks and I told him I lived in my situationship’s neighbourhood (I don’t, I said it so the date would be there). My actual hope is that my situationship sees me out with another man and it finally sparks something in him. And realistically? He probably won’t see us out but his neighborhood is very small, so I’ll likely end up tipsy and going over after the date to get that reaction out of him anyway.