The following is excerpted from Rose’s new book, “The Ugly Woman’s Guide to Internet Dating.”
“Good Christian Man Seeks Good Christian Woman for Friday Night Booty Call.”
That’s what his profile should have said.
I found him on a well-known Christian dating site. The relationship started off so good and happy and full of hope, and it ended on a very sour note when he told me that he didn’t feel any “chemistry.”
“No chemistry between us?” I asked him. “What are you talking about? Are you certifiable?”
Date #32 and I had had so much in common on so many levels, not to mention our long talks about God and spirituality. We’d had so many interesting chats about our faith and our study of the Bible and what it meant to be a Christian. We’d had several dates and he thought I was a “the funniest woman he’d ever met.” According to him, I’d scored high marks with him in the categories of intellect, wit and good companionship.
Too many men had dumped me unceremoniously with this “no chemistry” garbage, but this guy? It was not believable. It seemed disingenuous at best, and an outright lie at worst.
Throughout his home, pictures of his beautiful ex-wife adorned the walls. She was petite. She was short and slim and had enormous attributes and could have been a model. He’d had that once. I guess he wanted the same thing again. He wanted a girl just like the girl that he’d married once before.
But those were just the meanderings of my overtaxed and overtired brain. What I did know, beyond any doubt, was that he did not want me.
Before we parted forever, he made one last suggestion for a “special” relationship: We’ll never have a romantic relationship, he told me one night on the phone, but could we get together from time to time and just have hot sex?
Every time I see television commercials for this dating site, I want to send them my testimonial.
“Thanks to Blankety-blank.com, I got me a regular Friday night booty call!”
No thanks, was my response to Mr. Christian-in-name-only. It was a truly crummy ending to what should have been a decent relationship between two Christians. Because of this man and his abhorrent behavior, I revised my mission statement that night and removed the statement, “He must be a Christian.”
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