I have to admit … I'm the giggly happy girl day-dreaming today. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I had a second date last night. And my … what a second date it was. A long walk along the beach, watching the sunset, holding hands, styrofoam cups of coffee finished off by a romantic Indian dinner for two.<\/p>\n
It has been all the more fantastic for being unexpected. I didn't think I would like the fellow at all. We'd been chatting online for about a month, and when we talked on the phone for the first time last weekend we annoyed one another. I thought he was arrogant; he thought I was rude. I was ready to throw the towel in and not meet up, but he thought we should give it a go. We had <\/em>been chatting for so long, after all.<\/p>\n Thank goodness for that.<\/p>\n Sometimes the unexpected creates the most beautiful results. I hadn't been expecting much from him; he hadn't been expecting much from me. And as a result, what we found was something better than either of our expectations. A connection. A shared sense of humor. Pleasure in one another's company.<\/p>\n I believe that one of the reasons that unexpected encounters yield such wonderful relationships is precisely because we have no expectations<\/strong>. Neither of us has to live up to anything. I accept him as he is; he accepts me as I am. There's no pressure to be perfect or to not slip up.<\/p>\n When there are no expectations, we can simply be ourselves <\/strong>around one another. We have the choice to like one another as we are or leave without guilt. He doesn't have to like me any more than I have to like him.<\/p>\n And in this magical climate of no expectations, no pressure, and no pretending to be any better a person than we actually were, we looked at each other and liked what we saw.<\/p>\n Isn't that fantastic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have to admit … I'm the giggly happy girl day-dreaming today. \ud83d\ude42 I had a second date last night. And my … what a second date it was. A long walk along the beach, watching the sunset, holding hands, styrofoam cups of coffee finished off by a romantic Indian dinner for two. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,17,40,34,39],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attract-men","tag-attracting-men","tag-dating","tag-dating-skills","tag-expectations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}