College broke me out of it, clean slate and everything. Though I remember being frustrated my freshmen year because it seemed like every. single. girl. had a boyfriend back home.

I still feel embarrassed remembering high school. It's just mind-boggling how clueless I was. It couldn't have been more obvious they wanted to go out with me unless they just kissed me out of the blue. Which happened. Twice.

But I was a stupid teenage boy and asked out girls who didn't want to go out with me while being oblivious to the girls who did.

I'm probably still doing that.

It couldn't have been more obvious they wanted to go out with me unless they just kissed me out of the blue. Which happened. Twice.

I was once going back to a friends house to watch a PORNO with him and was completely surprised when he planted one on me. I was 21 at the time. Sad sad sad.

I didn't date in high school, and the dates I went on in college weren't dates, so much, as intersecting with guys from the radio station after late shifts or running into them at the cafeteria.

I dated and slept around a fair amount, that is until I found someone as perfect at Kristin, and well, you all know the story from that point.

I dated quite a lot in high school. It was the 60s and honestly it seemed less complicated then. There were these 3 guys that I had sex with on the first date. Once in 1972, again in 1984, then 1988. I married them all. Apparently I am a marrying kind a girl.

It certainly wasn't my practice to wait until I was married, but I can understand it more now. I used to think that you had to live with someone to know them and know if it would work. Now I am convinced that it is more a matter of commitment. Now how it is that you can know in advance if another person will have the same commitment to the marriage as you do, that I don't know. Tricky it is.

But I was a stupid teenage boy and asked out girls who didn't want to go out with me while being oblivious to the girls who did.

I was like that until my 30s....

So was I...and continued to present.

Well, not so much with the asking out part, these days.

I've never been on a traditional "date." I've been on non-dates, and I've met potential future wives for dinner, which may or may not count.

Otherwise, I just make out on couches. Or a bean bag chair. Or a bed. Or a tree.

I've generally been the "Hello, we're in a relationship" type.

With the singular exception of the one man I actually married. He was already married and I vowed never to get involved, blah, blah, blah.

Through a weird series of events, his first marriage was officially dissolved 23 hours before we wed. He'd been separated for a long time though.

Yesh. When I think back on some of the decisions I've made, I can't express how glad I am to be me now.

Of the two girls I could have gone out with, one I regret because it would have been been a interesting emotional roller coaster until she broke up with me, but wouldn't have been life altering. The other, thank god I didn't, because that could have been life altering in a bad way.

I consider myself lucky. I had one serious relationship in high school, one in college, then my first marriage and now, Jason. In between, however, lots of Teh Sex with various friends, workmates and other lucky LUCKY fellows.