I told her that I don’t intend to divorce my wife right away, as I wasn’t sure that doing so was worth it. When he met “Hannah,” who was “sophisticated” and “confident,” on a dating site, he felt he’d “hit the oil.” He wrote, “This is when I made a mistake, perhaps the cardinal mistake, of not administering the truth in small doses. It was just like I was interviewing him for Dating Diaries!” Zoe suspected that Grady needed someone to be a “sounding board,” but she knew it wasn’t going to be her.Īfter separating from his wife, “Vish” felt ready to date but not ready to get divorced. What!?” Tanya wrote, “I asked him how he met her, what she looked like, how the date went and why it ended. They had broken up because of distance and he was now making an effort to date other people.
Our diarist “Tanya” wrote that she “felt right at home” on a coffee date with “Grady” and that she found him “endearing.” However, “he told me that he was in love with someone else. (If you have a story to tell, we want to hear it - details on how you, too, can become a dating diarist at the bottom of the piece.) Dating comes with a lot of unknowns, among them a romantic prospect’s actual “relationship status.” Sometimes it turns out that a date isn’t exactly as “single” as advertised: they might just be dating around or they might be involved with (as in, in love with, living with or even married to) someone else, all of which have come up in dates shared in the Toronto Star’s popular relationships column, the Dating Diaries.