I met my husband at Starbucks. He was a customer, I was the barista. We started out as friends and slowly over a year and a half of him coming in every day, twice a day (on my breaks, no less!) we became closer.
These days I can't get him to go back to Starbucks. He says he never liked the coffee anyway. Lolol!
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Calling all single moms! This is an announcement of utmost importance. If you’re getting a little antsy and there’s someone missing in your life, look around you at all of the eligible bachelors. Now stop.
Getting back into a relationship can be a gigantic step and negotiating the dating world when you’re a single parent is a whole different scheme compared to your pre-baby life. Now you’ve got lunches to pack for school and snag front-row seats to the Hannah Montana concert.
Another difference: that night cap might take a turn for the “I’ll call you,” when your date sits on a Yugioh action figure or finds pudding on the back of his Armani jacket.
However, dating again can be great for any mom: pursuing and being pursued, being wined and dined and stepping out of your beaten-up mom Keds into some Chinese Laundry heels can be the antidote to Overworked Mom Syndrome.
Just tread with care, because as much fun as a date or three can be, there’s definitely warning signs on some roads.
1. The place you met your ex
Seems to me that the definition of insanity might just be doing the same thing over again, an expecting a different result. Blame the Universe for this one, ladies, but I veto hooking up where you hooked up with the ex. Bad mojo, there.
2. Yoga class
Yoga class has been declared as the #1 place to ogle and hook up with a flexible chick. There’s all of those mirrors, the stretchy pants and everyone’s high on endorphins afterwards. If that’s what you’re looking for, downward dog away, otherwise, heed my warning.
3. The bar, pub, dance club, gay bar, strip club, etc.
Can you think of anything worse than trying to get back into the game and walking into a place populated by young 20 somethings trying to hit that or mid-forty somethings, going through a stereotypical midlife crisis? Avoid unless you have the confidence that every single Victoria’s Secret model ever should have had. Combined.
4. Whole foods
This guy is too damned perfect. You might feel as if you need to be as well and your confidence can be affected. You’ve got your kids to think about, meaning that sometimes convenience rules, and maybe you’ve got a smaller budget than your new, shiny green boyfriend does. You’ve gotta know when to hold ‘em and fold ‘em, women.
5. Any sort of government aid office
Hear me out. Getting involved with someone who is dealing with their own struggles in life isn’t ever advisable. That’s not to say that you can’t start a friendship and see where it goes when you’re both on your own feet, but right now, if you get into a relationship, you need it to be with someone who is fully capable of taking care of themselves.
Spill the beans below if you’ve got a funny story about where you met a boyfriend, or a warning to the ladies ready to go a-courtin’.
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