25 Dating Tips From Mr. K

1. Talk to her all though class. Write silly notes back and forth and make up names and stories for all the people in the room.

2. Be utterly charming and stand out in the freezing January cold for 2 hours just to talk to her a little longer.

3. Find out her number and txt her about how you bought the book she mentioned in your last conversation, and how you're really excited to read it.

4. Tell your mutual friends that you are really excited to be hanging out with her lately.

5. Have conversations with her that seem to last for days. Never without a dull moment, and always full of happy feelings afterwords.

6. Understand each other's bruised hearts because you've both been engaged to people you weren't fully in love with, and you both have had your hearts completely broken by the people you did love.

7. Every time you see each other, laugh together. Genuinely and whole heartedly.

8. Three words: Zombie. Movie. Night. (Complete with disgusting treats!)

9. Tell her how happy she makes you. How different she is. How glad you are that she exists.

10. Console her when her brother's cancer returns; worse than ever and requiring surgery and chemo.

11. Tell her you think you're falling for her harder than the girl that you loved more than anyone (but who married someone else).

12. When you're happiest, start getting a little distant.

13. Reassure her that you have just been busy when she tries to give you space.

14. Plan a special date, and tell her you'll meet her right after she gets done visiting her brother in the hospital. But then tell her it's been a hard day for you and you'd rather just keep it low-key by getting fast food and watching a movie together.

15. Tell the girl that you want to make up having to cancel your awesome date for a low-key night in (she didn't mind), and that you're going to blow her mind with what you have planned. Tell her you're going to pick her up at 6:00pm.

16. Never pick her up and never call her as to why, leaving her completely heartbroken and confused.

17. Eventually txt her late the next day, begging for forgiveness. When the girl gives you a free pass out of the date, and tries to understand that this relationship is probably too stressful at the moment for you, you promise another date... one that would be even better than the last.

18. Break those plans last minute.

19. She tells you that you probably need to figure yourself out, but you tell her you truly care about her and want to prove it.

20. You never call again.

21. And then you stop going to class.

22. And then you become strangers once again.

23. And then after months of absence in each other's lives: show up with your new beautiful arm candy, and treat her like a old acquaintance you once knew in a vague sort of way. You joke without skipping a beat, and she laughs out of courtesy.

24. She actually laughed because your humor is still compatible as it always was. And you laughed back. She wishes you could just be friends again, but she's sort of scared to trust you.

25. After all, she isn't, and will never be, worth a simple apology.


peace,
k.