Darlings,
when Romance drops by, invite it in for tea. And if you
haven’t seen each other for a while, don’t be afraid to
break out the hard liquor.
Whether you make a mad dash for the front door or saunter
casually so you don’t look too anxious, whatever you do —
don’t leave Romance waiting on the front porch because it
won’t wait long.
Singly strange behavior
Romance and I are old, old friends. We go way back. Yet in all
the time we’ve worked together, nothing has puzzled us more
than human behavior — particularly when it comes to accepting
love into your life.
“I’ve known people who have wished and hoped and prayed
for me to arrive,” confides a frustrated Romance. “But when
I come knocking, they don’t answer. I know they’re there; I
can hear them breathing on the other side of the door, but for
some reason they don’t open it.”
It happens more than you might think.
“Once I made a house call to a woman in desperate need of
my services,” Romance recounts. “She took one look at me and
slammed the door right in my face. I was shocked at first, but
then I felt sorry for her. She’s never opened the door
again.”
Hide-and-go-sulk
Single men and women get themselves into ruts. That’s right,
sweethearts, you know you do.
You spend months — and sometimes years — searching for an
elusive love whose name you don’t know and whose face you’ve
never seen, but you know he or she is out there! You get your
hopes up, then you get your hopes dashed. You think you’ve
found someone, then you think you’ll be alone forever. You
invest yourselves so completely in searching for your ideal
match that you ignore the romantic possibilities all around you.
Your
match is on Match.com