The article reflects on the author’s experience with online dating, sparked by a Bob Dylan song that articulates the joys and pains of love. Initially drawn to her match's compelling profile, the author navigates emotional highs and lows during their relationship, characterized as a cat-and-mouse dynamic. While she hopes for a lasting connection, his sporadic communication and eventual confession of uncertainty about their future raise questions about compatibility, illustrating the difficulties and uncertainties that often accompany modern romance.
I liked both parts - love's rising and falling. Maybe because even at 30, I had felt love's sorrow. The lyrics reminded me of how much I longed to be in love, to have my own someone to sing to.
I was new to online dating, but his profile seemed great. His picture showed a blond-haired man with his eyes half closed, his long fingers strumming a tuxedo guitar.
Our romance was cat-and-mouse. I was the cat; he the mouse. We would have a great date and then I wouldn't hear from him.
It wasn't a big surprise when at the end of three months he revealed that he couldn't see himself with me long term.
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