MONDAY'S QUOTE

MONDAY'S QUOTE:

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  
~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

The very beginning of dating can be like walking through a mine field.  
In the past I joked that I wanted my cousins back in KY to find me a nice partner and say "here marry this one!"  Lucky for me that isn't what I have to do.   
 

Being in the early stages of meeting someone you like is well....tricky.  
You want to bring your best foot forward, be on your best behavior and yet I find myself being myself.  I figure if a potential partner is going to stick around for a 2nd and 3rd date then he's going to see me as I am.  

What I have learned is that love takes time.  For me it's working on just getting to LIKE and then we can go from there.  But when the time comes I like tonight's quote.  It jokingly reminds me to walk carefully in the beginning of any "relationship."

Laughing at me later is actually a prerequisite for being in a relationship with me.  
And I hope that he will be there to pick me up if I fall. 

More importantly, learning to laugh at myself in a relationship is the one thing that I have to learn in order to make it work.

More will be revealed my friends.
GM