How NOT to get a Man

Dating after Divorce entails a few more challenges, than it did back when you were young and single.

If you have children, you have to not only consider their welfare and well-being, but also ensure that your children can like and get along with the Candidate, but also that the Candidate can like and get along with your kids.  Add to this dynamic, HIS children and HIS ex-wife, and it can get very complicated.

And sadly, if you are a woman, you have an age bias with which to deal.  Older men still, with some exceptions, like younger women.  So in dating men your own age, there is a lot of competition.  Which is not to say that it can't happen.  I'm four years older than Mickey, after all.

But even with these above mentioned odds, some women go a few steps farther in ensuring that they will NEVER find another man of their own.    These are instances that I have witnessed.   Some examples are downright crazy and defy all forms of common sense.

1. DO NOT tell your Candidate of three months, that you are still in Love with your ex-husband, and that if not for his big-breasted Barbie Whore wife, you and he would still be together;
2. DO NOT borrow your Candidate's vehicle while he works (for free) to repair your broken vehicle, and then take HIS vehicle to the airport to hook up some other new Candidate that you met on the Internet  And if you do this, by all means, do not leave your airport parking voucher in his car;
3. DO NOT tell a Candidate during the first date, that he, being seven years older than you, is "the oldest guy I've ever dated.";
4. DO NOT, when you sleep over at a Candidate's house and he leaves in the morning to fetch donuts for you, rummage through his drawers and closets and snoop through his computers.   And if you DO this, DO NOT confront him about what you found on his computer.  And if you do that, DO NOT act surprised when he physically throws your ass out of his home and threatens to get a restraining order against you;
5. DO NOT, after only one date with a Candidate, put your teen-aged daughter in the car with you and drive-by his home when he is not there, pull in his driveway, get out of your car and go peek inside all of the windows.  This is called Trespassing.  His neighbors will report your unlawful activity and he will threaten you with a restraining order if you ever come near his home again;

One would think these "tips" would go without saying.  But, unfortunately, these instances are all true.