The Jewish Single Life
Well just as I start a blog the very thing I want to write about the most- dating- I have stopped doing, reason being I am dating only one person now. (So have I stopped? Technically I guess not, giggle, giggle).
Last fall my dating life was nothing short of a humourous Jewish dating documentary. In fact in retrospect I think I should have been video taping the entire experience. I was (as one of the guys I was dating put it) - POWER DATING. And the experiences and people I met were like scenes from a Hollywood romantic comedy, or should I say more like a comedy. A Jewish dating comedy, as I only date Jewish men.
I had been getting set up through friends, the internet-yes I admit I was on Jdate among others...., and I even tried speeddating once.
Some became friends after dating, some became friends immediately. I did meet a lot of nice, intelligent, kind men. But I did have some interesting experiences.
From the first guy who proposed to me almost immediately in the middle of Chapters, to the guy who called me 20 times on my cell phone in one night after our 3rd date. Then there was the guy who tried to make out with me 15 minutes after meeting me. There was a guy who I did like and dated for a month or two but he couldn't stop HIS power dating, he enjoyed women too much. Did I mention that he was divorced and used to have porn site with his ex-wife where she was the star? One guy thought that if he got me drunk enough I would sleep with him, or so he said, I never stuck around to find out. Yes it is true, there was a guy who was so sexually attracted to me that he thought I could cure his erectile dysfunction-NO JOKE! Another -after only having one coffee date, I cancelled a second date with him cause I met my present bf in between. The response from the guy I cancelled on was to send me an extremely lengthly scathing email to which one would have thought that we had been engaged.
And now I seem to have collected a database of single jewish men, from which my gf's have been known to dabble in once in awhile. And the database of single jewish men have been known to ask me to hook them up as well. I have become a semi, biproxy, not by choice, slightly moonlighting, on the side, matchmaker.
But I guess we are all in some form or another looking for that Mr. or Ms. Right.
Last fall my dating life was nothing short of a humourous Jewish dating documentary. In fact in retrospect I think I should have been video taping the entire experience. I was (as one of the guys I was dating put it) - POWER DATING. And the experiences and people I met were like scenes from a Hollywood romantic comedy, or should I say more like a comedy. A Jewish dating comedy, as I only date Jewish men.
I had been getting set up through friends, the internet-yes I admit I was on Jdate among others...., and I even tried speeddating once.
Some became friends after dating, some became friends immediately. I did meet a lot of nice, intelligent, kind men. But I did have some interesting experiences.
From the first guy who proposed to me almost immediately in the middle of Chapters, to the guy who called me 20 times on my cell phone in one night after our 3rd date. Then there was the guy who tried to make out with me 15 minutes after meeting me. There was a guy who I did like and dated for a month or two but he couldn't stop HIS power dating, he enjoyed women too much. Did I mention that he was divorced and used to have porn site with his ex-wife where she was the star? One guy thought that if he got me drunk enough I would sleep with him, or so he said, I never stuck around to find out. Yes it is true, there was a guy who was so sexually attracted to me that he thought I could cure his erectile dysfunction-NO JOKE! Another -after only having one coffee date, I cancelled a second date with him cause I met my present bf in between. The response from the guy I cancelled on was to send me an extremely lengthly scathing email to which one would have thought that we had been engaged.
And now I seem to have collected a database of single jewish men, from which my gf's have been known to dabble in once in awhile. And the database of single jewish men have been known to ask me to hook them up as well. I have become a semi, biproxy, not by choice, slightly moonlighting, on the side, matchmaker.
But I guess we are all in some form or another looking for that Mr. or Ms. Right.
posted by Jewish Mamale @ 6:30 p.m.
5 Comments:
At 7:01 p.m., April 04, 2006,
Anonymous said…
are your girlfriends hot? can you hook me up?
At 7:07 p.m., April 04, 2006,
Jewish Mamale said…
I know who you are you silly friend(not mentioning any names of course) and I have done!
At 9:36 a.m., April 05, 2006,
Anonymous said…
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At 6:54 p.m., April 14, 2006,
kacob said…
I have to agree with anonymous... if you have such a database, I'd start considering making money as a matchmaker...
At 12:22 p.m., April 25, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Erin, very good article once again. I am 34, single and Jewish. All my previous relationships have been with Shiksas. I find myself at this stage in my life wanting to practice the faith again as I did as a youth. As well, I want my son to learn about the faith and make his own choices. I grew up in a part orthodox / reform enviroment so I want to be somewhere in between. I grew up in Sheppard & Bathurst area in TO and spent alot of time at the JCC and in Thornhill with Jews as a youth.
I even went to a high school that closed on the high holidays. Oy, now I live in an old German town, Kitchener, go figure. Any matchmakers out there? I am throwing in the Shiksa towel.
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