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| In dating cyberspace with mom |
| In dating cyberspace with mom
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 7-October-2013
6:2:19 AM |
| When my mom started setting up her profile on a dating website called Ourtime.com, she was super pumped.
"I'm having so much fun," she told me over the phone. Taking a bunch of selfies, filling in boxes and overthinking her answers to questions, she asked me what options she had for religion.
"What's a Taoist?" she said, pronouncing it with a "t." I offered her the correct pronunciation.
"Well, then what's this yin and yang?" she asked.
"It's like a black and white cookie, Mom. Only for your whole life."
For my generation, getting truly excited about an Internet date is kind of gauche. Most of us in big cities like New York view Internet dating the same as paying for public transportation; we're not crazy about it, but what option do we have? For my mom, this was the future. I wondered if my weird paternal reaction was how she and my late father felt when teenage me began dating.
"He has no idea what's ahead," they must have thought, smiling outwardly, but internally shaking their heads.
Recently single myself, I was back on OkCupid, not just for me, but in solidarity with my mom. If the Britts were unfairly alone in love, then it made sense to try pooling our resources, comparing notes and figuring out what we were doing wrong.
While Brooklyn and East Village singles grab a whiskey at 11 p.m., the older crowd in the Chandler, Ariz., suburbs where my mom lives, tends to meet when the sun is out. My mom had a Starbucks date in which her guy talked only about his ex-wife. I had a stroll through the Guggenheim with a girl who claimed to "hate the sun." My mom saw a big summer blockbuster with a guy who hogged the popcorn and snorted. I saw "Francis Ha" with a girl who talked during the scene where Greta Gerwig runs and dances in the streets.
But one day, Mom had some news for me.
"There's a new man in my life," she said, "I think he might be the one."
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