Confession: I’ve been horribly cliche with my New Year’s resolution this year.
Following a slightly disastrous 12 months of dating in 2023 I’ve decided to actively turn things around.
I’m even going so far as accepting some responsibility for last year’s bad dating antics. It would appear, thanks to a lot of brutal but fair feedback from friends, that my body language didn’t exactly scream APPROACH ME when I was out and about.
I much preferred to just be laser focused on my friends, or my phone, or the cocktail menu. Each night I would say to the girls “ooh, I hope I pick up tonight” before inevitably ignoring every bloke in sight and waking up the next day wondering why the heck the other side of the bed was empty.
Now sure, I could have swiped left and right on the apps, and don’t get me wrong – I did! But I will admit I left many of them on read. Yep, I was that annoying person who would match with someone and then completely forget about them.
Safe to say, despite thinking I was ready to date again, my actions said otherwise.
But this year I feel different. I’ve finally kicked the two guys I was in distracting situationships with to the kerb (hold your applause, stop it, now you’re just embarrassing me) and I’m open to dating someone who is emotionally available.
So with...
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