Relationship Record

Six months ago my girlfriend of four years tells me she was cheating on me.

I was at a new years eve party at her cousins house, with tons of people. We all got insanely drunk, and a bunch of us crashed in the living room. Around 5am, I wake up to to hear my girlfriend balling her eyes out. I ask her whats wrong, thinking that some horrible thing happened to her in the past couple of hours while I was out, and she tells me she was cheating on me with her boss (Who’s 30 years her senior) for the past three months.

Happy New Year.

We talked a few times for the past few months, but I’m pretty sure the door shut on us ever ‘getting back together’ when she tried to explain that her boss was more mature than me, to which I started laughing saying ‘well I should hope so! He’s 30 years older than me!!’

So now I figure I better move on. I haven’t really ever ‘dated’, I’ve always moved from one long term relationship to the next quite quickly. However, my best friend Rachel met her fiancee Rob through online dating last year. So I figure I’d give it a shot.

I picked a dating site, signed up, and quickly whipped up some boring profile that seemed to say ‘Hi, I like you, do you want to be friends?’, rather than ‘My name is Encrio…the Spanish lover, women coo and faint at the mere mention of my name!’ But heck it’s a start. Besides, I’ve gained so much weight over the past six months that I think I would have a greater chance of being mistaken for a Goodyear blimp rather than a charming Latin lover.

In any case, I filled out some stuff about what I like, my hobbies, then I put up a few pictures that tried to make me look skinnier, but that’s like an elephant trying to hide behind a tree. It just ain’t gonna happen.

If it worked for my friend, and countless others, the dating thing could work for me.

Let’s see how it goes…