In the past year or so, I’ve discovered that there are numerous upsides and possibly even more downsides to writing a blog (or, in my case, two blogs—this one and one for ELLE). When it comes to dating, a downside is that the guy inevitably knows much more about me than I know about him right off the bat. Sometimes it works to my advantage (i.e. he knows I hate guys who don’t open doors for women, so he’ll be conscientious of gentlemanly behavior) and sometimes it doesn’t (i.e. he gets freaked out by my thoughts on dating and men from the past). I’ve come to accept that this is the way things are, and there are men who can deal with it and men who can’t. Never have the tables been turned, until now.
I have a drinks date with Glamour magazine’s new dating blogger for next week, and it’s been interesting to read his posts and get to know him before ever even hanging out with him. It’ll be fun to get his perspective on writing so personally on such a public platform. And since we have some very good mutual friends, I figure it can’t go too badly ;)
