For some reason I was just thinking about my dating history and the patterns that appear amused me.
“Girlfriend” #1 (~1987 I think, all dates will be hazy approximate guesses; really just a first kiss and a couple of weeks of casually “dating”): met doing a children’s theatre production of Tom Sawyer with ‘Magination Station
#2 (~’87 or ’88?): also just a quick casual thing that barely really qualifies (though I did write a kick ass song that would make you think it was some epic love affair): met doing a play (I can’t remember which one).
#3 (~1989): Met doing children’s theatre at ‘Magination Station
4 (~1991): Met when I was the villain and she was the heroine in the melodrama “Caught In The Villain’s Web” at StageCenter.
#5 (~1993): another super casual, occasional makeout scenario. Met doing dinner theatre.
#6 (~1993): Met in some theater production. Maybe “Smoke On The Mountain” with The Aggie Players (I wasn’t an Aggie though, just born and raised there).
#7 (~1994): Met when we both worked at Texas Renaissance Festival.
#8 (~1995): Met when we both worked at Sears (This one is the biggest anomaly).
#9 (~1998): Met on the internet. I can’t remember where exactly. A musicians group maybe as we were both musicians? She lived (and still lives in Australia). This was the super early days of internet.
#10 (~2001): Met on the internet on a message board for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She lived in England. We quickly started dating. She visited here. I visited there and we got engaged in the airport in Scotland waiting for my plane back home. She moved here and we were married for 8 years.
#11 (~2009): We went to school together from elementary through high school but never really knew each other well. Re-met on FB around the time of our 30th reunion and lots of folks were reconnecting. She lived in another state.
#12 (~2011): Met on FB through a mutual friend’s post.
#13 (2013): Met in a production of Macbeth at City Theater.
The End.
I’m social media friends with about half of them. Many of the others aren’t on social media or we lost contact, but no bad blood with any of them.