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Date #37 & #38 - Looks vs. Personality: Why Can't I Just Have Both?
March 16, 2024 For this date I got invited to PlantHouse in Arlington, VA to a terrarium-making workshop. If you don’t know what that...
ebonijade
2 days ago6 min read


Date #35 & #36: From High Hopes to Hard Passes
February 17, 2024 I met #35 at Punch Bowl Social in Arlington, VA. By this time I’m already familiar with the place so although I like...
ebonijade
Mar 1017 min read


Date #34: New Year, Same Disappointments
January 21, 2024 I was turned off by #34 the minute I walked into the restaurant. I’m not saying he was a catfish, but it was obvious he...
ebonijade
Jan 207 min read


Date #33 (Part IV): Closure or Question Mark?
February - March 2024 Ivory knew I was looking for a job, so the day after we agreed to stop all communication, he sent me a position he...
ebonijade
Dec 13, 202415 min read


Date #33 (Part III): Beyond the 3-Month Facade
January 2024 A week after our New Year's conversation, he called me, and like we agreed… he updated me on a few things that had happened...
ebonijade
Dec 8, 202410 min read


Date #33 (Part II): Holiday Funk
Not a lot of time had passed before Ivory and I had spoken again, I’m talking a few days. Honestly, it was as if the conversation had...
ebonijade
Dec 2, 20248 min read


Date #33 (Part I) - Good Guy, Bad Fit: Reasons Why I Had to End It
October 14th, 2023 Date #33, we’ll call him Ivory being that he was from Ivory Coast, was the first guy I dated “seriously” after...
ebonijade
Nov 24, 20249 min read


Date #30, #31, and #32: The No-Name Bunch
Title explanation: These next three guys are the only ones from my whole dating series that I cannot recall their name off the top of my...
ebonijade
Nov 15, 202411 min read


Date #29: Faded Too Soon
April 27, 2023 Around this time is when I started therapy. There wasn’t a specific reason or event that led me to it, just needing...
ebonijade
Nov 8, 202415 min read


Date #28: Vanishing Acts
Fall/Winter 2022 #28 was my second heartbreak since moving, and took me the longest to get over (word on the street is I’m still trying...
ebonijade
Oct 25, 20248 min read


Date #26 & #27: Bitter Coffee and Bitter Opinions
August 6, 2022 Date #26 was my third first date in a row. But unlike the first two, this one ended right after the date… sort of. He was...
ebonijade
Oct 21, 20244 min read


Date #25: Just A Fun Time
August 5th, 2022 Cameron (Date #24) and Date #25 (nicknamed Rain) are two guys I dated at the exact same time which almost never...
ebonijade
Oct 7, 20249 min read


Date #24: The Fall of Something Special
August 4th, 2022 “Whoever gets there first shares their location,” Date #24 texted me. We agreed to meet up at the Washington Monument...
ebonijade
Sep 30, 20248 min read


Date #23: From Date to Detective
Author’s Note: In no way should Date #23 have his own post but the next two dates will have their own and I wanted to continue keeping...
ebonijade
Sep 25, 20245 min read


Date #22 (Part III): Tried Our Best
October 2023 I started dating someone else, again… and was more into him than I was Syre. Of course I’m posting him, us going out, what...
ebonijade
Sep 11, 202410 min read


Date #22 (Part II): Beating A Dead Horse
January - March 2023 Me and dude I was really feeling (Date #28) stopped dating. Yes I was real hurt over this one, but this forced me...
ebonijade
Sep 5, 20249 min read


Date #22 (Part I): The Ice Cream Incident
February 2022 Date #22 is probably the one who unlocked my want for a relationship. Imma tell yall this story, and you’re gonna ask...
ebonijade
Aug 29, 202410 min read


Date #20 & #21: Sloppy & Shady
April 2, 2022 This date is what made me realize why the hood dudes had the girlies in a chokehold. This man didn’t do anything...
ebonijade
Aug 22, 20245 min read


Date #18 & #19: From Charming to Chilling
February 26th, 2022 Date #18 lived far. The day of our date I was a good hour late because my cousin (who was out of town) had some...
ebonijade
Aug 15, 20246 min read


Date #16 & #17 - New Year, New Disappointments
January 30th, 2022 Date #16 was a very spur of the moment date. I was getting off work some time in the evening and I told myself I...
ebonijade
Aug 9, 20245 min read
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