Just wanted to let y’all know that I’ll be taking tonight
and maybe tomorrow night off from posting a blog. A few friends and I will be
going to my brother’s restaurant to celebrate my birthday. It’ll be the first
time that I’ll be bringing a date with me to meet these friends and my brother.
As the youngest of three kids – and in my 30’s – my brother is still super
protective of me and wants to meet any guy interested in me. I don’t mind this protective side of my
brother but at the same time it’s a little odd since my date is 8 ½ years older
than my brother (my brother is 1 ½ yrs older than me).
I feel a little weird about it this time around because
my date is a co worker who’s been married and divorced twice and is the father
of three kids (age range is 2 yrs to 18 yrs; I’m 13 yrs older than his eldest). I don’t
mind that my date is 10 yrs older than me, twice married and twice divorced but
I worry about how my brother will be.
I’ve been hurt before (let’s face it…we all have) and my
brother doesn’t want to see me get hurt again. I explained to my brother that I
do care about my date but I don’t see a long term relationship with him. I want
to get married, have kids and settle down sooner rather than later whereas my
date has no desire to get married and is done with having kids.
My date is a good man, a hard worker, a good father to
his kids, is financially secure and shares my sense of humor but he just isn’t
interested in anything long term; as in anything over 18 months. I’m looking
for long term but he can’t provide that for me, unfortunately.
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