So, life hasn't exactly turned out the way I had hoped it would. At 20 I was married with a son and loved my life. But here I am 30, divorced, broke, living with my parents, and raising my son on my own. I work long hours and pay my bills to be able to provide a life for my son. I do think "what the fuck happened to you Kim and how did I end up this way."
The loneliness gets me depressed and I lose sleep because of it.
I would like to date but between work and my son's schedule I never seem to have any free time. I am not and have never been the woman who sleeps around. But I decided to try online dating recently and thought at the least I'd be able to chat with people to help with the daily loneliness and depression that I've been dealing with.
Originally, I was getting messages from a lot of creepy men asking inappropriate things and sending me dick pics. I was about to give up on this as well until I got a message just saying "Hello, I like your profile and would like to talk and get to know you more if you are interested?"
His name was Mike and in his profile, he sounded nice, had his own place, lived close by, had his teeth, but was 49 years old. I figured fuck it, why not!
"Hi Mike, I'm Kim. Sure, I'd like to get to know each other."
Mike and I exchanged numbers and texted back and forth for hours that night getting to know each other. Then when I told him I had to get some sleep he called me. I didn't know what to do and went back and forth in my head about if I should answer.
"Hey you"
"Hi Kim. I just wanted to hear your voice before I go to bed. Hope that's ok?"
We ended up talking on the phone until my battery was about to die. I truly didn't want to hang up with him. Mike was very sweet and listened to me bitch about my life and was very open about his. He too didn't have a lot of free time and worked a lot because he was divorced father of 3 and being a responsible parent paid child support and spent all his free time with his children.
We continued talking to each other for weeks getting to know one another. We agreed to finally meet and get a coffee one night to get that first awkward meeting out of the way. I explained to Mike that I was a little overweight and hadn't dated in about 4 years. My insecurities were starting to overwhelm me now that it was time to meet.
Mike told me "I already like you and know what you look like and think you are an attractive, beautiful woman. Plus, I'm 49 so you are the hot young chick to me."
I really liked that response and forgot what it felt like to have a guy pursue me. I really liked how I was feeling about all of this and how Mike reacted and responded to me.
We finally met and to be honest the physical attraction wasn't mutual. It was obvious Mike was older than me and he wasn't the most attractive guy. I told Mike this and he said he was fine with that and that he understood but "can we still build on the friendship that we already started?"
"I would really like that Mike. I'm glad we met each other and really would like for us to continue being friends"
Mike and I would still talk every day and make fun of people who would message us on the dating site. When we had free time, we would go to the movies and out to eat. We helped each other with the loneliness that we had and we agreed it was like a niece/uncle relationship.
One Friday night I had a date and it went horrible. The guy was a jerk and it ended with him leaving me at the restaurant because I told him I wasn't comfortable going to his place. I was feeling buzzed and called Mike crying asking him if he could come pick me up because I didn't have any money with me. Mike told me "I've been drinking tonight and I'm home so I can't drive. If you want to call a cab and come to my place I can pay for it."
"Ok, are you sure you don't mind?"
"Of course, I don't I don't mind."
When I got to Mike's I told him "give me whatever it is you've been drinking."
Mike poured me a glass of tequila and asked me what happened? I told him the guy was a jerk and just left me there because I wouldn't go to his place.
"Well I'm glad you came here instead."