For one, Nobody can say I’m downright happy living alone and be 100% truthful. But, I’m not uncomfortable with the reality of life, either. I just suggest it on the blogosphere as an ear-catching detail introducing what I am about to unravel!

A week ago today yours truly was talking to Sandy, pondering about joining the Phoenix Great Expectations dating service. Today, I stand to you as a surprisingly pleased member of the dating service. For real, it’s true. It’s full of fun, attractive people! If you have read my old blog, you may be wondering, “You got some ’splainin to do, Lucy!”

Well, I saw this Great Expectations Dating site and can really get behind their approach. They’re for the serious singles who think dating isn’t a game.

Because in all honesty I’d never been a fan of the ridiculous nightlife ritual serial daters (ie: everyone I know) so aptly entitled “The Dating Experience.” I got it more than you know. Each night they ask, “You’re still single? ” and “Oh I know just the guy for you!”

“Nonsense,” I reply, without missing a beat. “Have you seen what’s out there?”

“You’re as ridiculous as you are hilarious,” they deadpan. “How would you know, you haven’t seen Friday Night Magic in a year!”

Thankfully, that’s my friend (she’s the best) Trisha McCarthy. She offers the best ideas to my mind to put me back on course. Caring souls you can trust for fresh advice. Can’t argue with that, and I thank her for it.

Returning to the theme of this post. As I browsed from hundreds of quality singles for my first date with Great Expectations, I acknowledged something real. For the longest time, I hadn’t entertained any figurative great expectations for dating and myself in the serendipitous winding course of being human. It’s good to be single, even more so when you get out there and have fun. Embracing your own great expectations does wonders on a cynics social life.

+Monica Ross