The Ghosts of my Boyfriends Past

Hi folks!

 I dated a lot, and I dated a lot of creeps so it made it that much easier to know I had landed something great when Calvin rolled around.  Today is our anniversary eve and so I thought before I got all warm and gooey and gushy on you tomorrow I would first share with you the path I had to go down before I got to the marriage part.  Twasnt easy folks!

(Also, I feel like I should add the disclaimer that I did date some good guys as well, they just weren't right for me or the timing wasn't right, or basically I just needed to wait for Calvin.)

(Also, I am slightly aware that some ex boyfriends of mine may read my blog as it is very public.  If you think you see yourself in this post and you weren't aware your dating mistakes from years ago were going to be made public... Well, I'm sorry.  At least I'm not using your name?)

So... without further ado...  Dating horror stories!

#1:  THE HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP

I fell head over heels for a guy that couldn't done anything without his father's permission.  (This coming from me who needs a ride because she can't drive!)  We dated several months before my mom made us break-up and then again when I got into college. Whenever I tried to get him to come over to my house (instead of meeting at the roller rink) he always would make excuses as to why he can't. I found out later his father was quite controlling. I distinctly remember a Saturday night where we had a date planned at eight. I waited and waited. (This was my boyfriend at the time, too, not just some random dude.) I called and called.  Nothing. At about 8:00 I realized I'd been stood up and I went to bed mad as hell. The next day I heard nothing from him. About 3:00 in the afternoon I started to get worried that something had happened to him since I hadn't heard from him in 24 hours.  I called and he didn't answer but he texted back- said he was too afraid to call me. (I was 18 at the time- a little over the games.) Apparently he had gone to his mom's for dinner (yes, his mom's!) and then fallen asleep at her house for the rest of the night. Don't worry calling when you wake up and apologizing, much better to just ignore your girlfriend!

#2:  THE LIAR.

One summer I dated a boy for a few months who lived about 45 minutes from me.  Because of the distance we only saw each other one or two times a week.  What he did the other nights, I didn't know.  One night I was texting him wanting to hang out and he made up a bunch of excuses about stuff he had to do, but it was all very vague.  So we started texting from my friend's phone, saying we had seen him at a church activity the day before and he was rs break-uoueally cute and "she" was super interested in him.  He totally took the bait and was flirting like mad with the fake woman.  We then asked if he had plans tonight and he said "Nope, absolutely nothing!  Let's hang out."  I then texted him from my phone and sent the text verbatim that he had just sent to the mystery girl.  He knew we were on to him, and he never texted back.  EVER

#3 MR. JOBLESS.

My freshman year of college a boy asked me out via facebook message who I just thought was cute. OH BOY! I had never once talked to him.  He was awkward and shy. After talking to him for awhile I found out he didn't have a job. When I tried to be helpful and suggest some, he thought I was saying he wasn't good enough for me... So I dropped it. A while later I got an internship and was making money, he got mad because I didn't text back within 3 seconds on receiving it. So then because of that he broke up with me saying money is all that matters to me.

#4: THE YOU'RE-TOO BUSY.

He was a firefighter, had 3 jobs and just wouldn't ever want to talk about anything more than getting married (which I wanted but) and getting me pregnant like right now. I mean I did want those things but talking about it every day just never excited me. I only saw him once and we never really broke up either.

#5: THE MILITARY MAN.

We met on a dating site. He was overseas at the time. We started talking and figured I'd up and run when he told me he had a son and was in the military. Honestly, they didn't bother me at all. He did eventually ask me out (which took FOREVER I thought). We broke up for a year because of his ex-wife. We got back together though and he is serious about marrying me and having a future together. He finally got to kiss me too and it was about the dang sweetest first kiss I've ever had.  I've been kissing him ever since...