Dating can have it's challenges at any age. Let me explain.
Yesterday I was watching an episode of The Golden Girls. For anyone who is not familiar it is a show from the 80's about four single woman who are dating in the second part of their lives due to losing a spouse through divorce or death. One of the characters Dorothy met a man who was a lawyer. A charming smart, handsome and well articulated man who also dresses up as a clown in his down time to entertain children as a way to decompress from his full time law career.
Not soon after dating him for a short time, Dorothy was getting the feeling he was going to propose and liking the idea of being a lawyers wife. Instead, this high powered man decides to be a clown full time and hopes that she will travel the three-ring kinda life and accept him for this new man he wants to become.
I can relate because isn't all of our dates a three ring circus? That the first ring is filled with surreal ideas of who this person is, the second is the reality of what the relationship truly is and the third is a large elephant crapping all over the whole thing.
I would like to say that diluted expectations are expected at any age but what is really important is just to have fun and maybe even run away with the clown. Hey, at least he has a job in this recession.
And finally, everything is always better with your girlfriends sitting at the kitchen table with a cheesecake in the middle and four forks. Plates excluded.
a three ring circus is exactly what relationships are. as if juggling and swinging from the rafters isn't enough, then they send in the clowns and expect you to jump through rings of fire.
ReplyDeleteno clowning around, you are right expectations can lead to disappointment, keeping them in check can really allow you to enjoy surprises!
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