I received an email the other day.
Dear David. We hooked up last year. It was fun. Call me if you’re unattached and we’ll catch up. I miss having a good man around.
Wait a sec – I hooked up with this woman a year ago? I must have been between lovers, because I haven’t done a [...]
Call me old school, but I grew up thinking it was a good idea to actually plan dates. You know, pick a night, a time, a place, and then go do it.
Women I’ve recently come in contact with are making me think planning dates is outdated.
I was introduced to woman A through friends. We emailed [...]
Some nights my kids and I play a kissie game when they go to bed. They crawl into bed. I’m supposed to kiss them on each cheek. (Yes, they’re both teens. You’d think they would have tired of this game a decade ago. But no, they still love it.)
They squirrel their bodies like crazy, cover [...]
Sunday morning, the doorbell rang. I hadn’t had my coffee yet, but at least this single dad was up. I looked out the window, and there’s some lady standing there. Was it a neighbor whose turtle crawled under the fence? (Hey, stuff like that happens in my neighborhood).
I opened the door, and she spoke seven [...]
Imagine you’re divorced with 50-50 custody during the week. For custody on holidays and long weekends, the kids go with one parent or the other. So if your ex got the kids for Memorial Day weekend this year, you get the kids for Labor Day weekend. It might not be a perfect approach, but it [...]
I’ve had some great impromptu dates recently with girl friends of mine. Note the space between the words “girl” and “friends”. I didn’t say “girlfriends”. Since we’re friends of the opposite sex, there are plenty of sparks. But since we aren’t dating, there are no fireworks at the end of the night.
It’s sometimes a bit [...]
You meet somebody new. You enjoy a coffee date or martini together. You’d like to see them again, but you don’t quite feel the spark, the chemistry, the je ne sais quois – it’s not quite there to ratchet things up another notch and date.
Whatever happened to just hanging out?
I recently met a woman who [...]
David Mott is a divorced single father of a teen daughter and son offering stories, tips and opinions on single parenting, coparenting children, two-home families, cooking, cocktails, self awareness - and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, and booty calls.
David Mott has appeared on ABC News Now, CBS radio, CNN.com, and McClatchy News syndication
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