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Mom of Three: Out of the Sandbox and Into the Dating Pool

I wanted to fast forward 5 years and find myself in a happy place. In Happy Place, I would be in love with a wonderful man. I wouldn’t have to go through the awkwardness or struggle with the unknown. Well, I wasn’t in Happy Place. I was here and fear had me seeking the rock where I could stay for the rest of eternity. Online dating was not my Happy Place.

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Online Dating: Do You Try Your Jeans Online? How About Your Men?

I wanted to fast forward 5 years and find myself in a happy place. In Happy Place, I would be in love with a wonderful man. I wouldn’t have to go through the awkwardness or struggle with the unknown. Well, I wasn’t in Happy Place. I was here and fear had me seeking the rock where I could stay for the rest of eternity. Online dating was not my Happy Place.

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Online Dating Has Its Place in Life

I wanted to fast forward 5 years and find myself in a happy place. In Happy Place, I would be in love with a wonderful man. I wouldn’t have to go through the awkwardness or struggle with the unknown. Well, I wasn’t in Happy Place. I was here and fear had me seeking the rock where I could stay for the rest of eternity. Online dating was not my Happy Place.

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Online Dating: More Waves from Rhode Island

I wanted to fast forward 5 years and find myself in a happy place. In Happy Place, I would be in love with a wonderful man. I wouldn’t have to go through the awkwardness or struggle with the unknown. Well, I wasn’t in Happy Place. I was here and fear had me seeking the rock where I could stay for the rest of eternity. Online dating was not my Happy Place.

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Online Dating: Rhode Island Makes Waves

I wanted to fast forward 5 years and find myself in a happy place. In Happy Place, I would be in love with a wonderful man. I wouldn’t have to go through the awkwardness or struggle with the unknown. Well, I wasn’t in Happy Place. I was here and fear had me seeking the rock where I could stay for the rest of eternity. Online dating was not my Happy Place.

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Online dating: Rhode Island

Anita Bugan shares her post divorce journal. This is the second of two episodes about online dating, in which she discovers a man who was “wearing a small knit cap (hiding a bald head perhaps?) and black rimmed glasses. And, I kid you not; behind those glasses were the gentlest, bluest eyes”

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Online Dating Tips – Take Two

It was the beginning of November and two weeks had passed since my return from the trip to Cozumel and Key West. I was back, a new person, revived, and ready to jump into online dating again. (Note how quickly I recovered!!)

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Online Dating: Yay or Nay?

Anita’s post divorce adventures continue…

My ex-husband found his next partner the real way, well (cough, cough) when I say,”real” I imply that he met her in a three-dimensional manner, none of this two-dimensional stuff. I, however, explored online dating, a two dimensional experience, at first.

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Midlife dating - a new beginning

Midlife Dating: For Those Not Yet Dated

How did I, a happily (or so I foolishly thought), married woman of almost eighteen years, devoted mother of three, and dedicated career woman, get to be a forty-year-old divorced single parent? How did I end up at midlife dating? Installment two of Anita’s Adventures or her post divorce life where she is Losing Him Finding Me

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