Dating gets more complicated as you get older

Puppy love

Remember your first love? For some it was primary school, love-letters being exchanged via friends, hardly looking at each other and giggling when you see your “love” in the passage at school.

First love

Then came high school, you blushed and held hands and danced close when you heard slow song playing. You were devastated when you find him/her kissing someone else, played deafening music and refused to come out of your room thinking that you would die.

Passionate love

Varsity or your years as a young professional was a jungle. You dated many people, fell in love quickly and out of love just as quick and moved on. What you wanted in a partner changed overnight and changed back the very next day. Your friends’ opinion was all important and you spent more time with them than with your partner.

Placid (aka true) Love

Then some people find “the one”. They settle down have kids and lead the picture perfect white picket fence lives.

But somehow you missed out on this…. You are still single and when invited to parties by married friends you start to feel out of place. After all you know nothing about diapers and milk and even worse about the tantrums toddlers have when the want something unobtainable. You invite a random person you met along to these couple parties and everyone asks when the 2 of you are “getting hitched”.”My word” you think “we just met at the office party last week!!!” and an awkward silence follows.

The pursuit of happiness and love

It gets tougher. As soon as you hit 30, your mom starts to panic. Your siblings are trying to set you up wit a date from church every week. You merrily go about your life. Stressing, working, making money. Gym needs some time (at 30 it not so easy to stay slim and trim). Social with the friends you have to catch up with etc. and the years roll by. You are perfectly happy and single. But then it happens. Your best friend, who swore never to get married, falls in love. And it is BAD. Being the good friend that you are you go for dinner and sleep over at their place and you hear them giggling and talking way into the early hours of the morning. And you are jealous, why can’t you meet someone like that?

No other options left you try out that blind date someone in your church wants you to meet, he turns out to be around 65 and cannot even read the menu on his own. No way are you doing that again so you muster up all your courage and ask the work colleague you’ve noticed before out on a date and they decline with some lame excuse. Starting to feel desperate you think: People find their matches on-line all the time right? So you try it. Several data bundles and lots of late nights further you abandon that idea decide to try events clubs with your best friend, you try new hobbies and even jump of some cliff as you are sure to meet cool people that way. Then you realise that if you were going to meet someone at a party or the tennis club it would have happened by now.

So what to do?? Do people really spend money on executive dating? That remains the question. The only way to know is if you try a professional matchmaker.www.click-dating.co.za/about.html