First Date .......Again!

After a 25 year marriage ends and you have lived on your own for quite some time you will suddenly realize that you are in fact single again yet so far removed from the "dating" scene, that you are reticent to plunge back in but you are well advised to gather your courage and jump, both feet forward. It could be as simple as two adults meeting in a health club and starting up a friendly conversation. If the conversation is pleasant enough and continues through several weeks of chance encounters you may wish to be brave and suggest an actual meeting in let's say the hot tub of the club on a Saturday afternoon. Several more weeks of good conversation in the calming waters of the hot tub, and you just might recoup your pre-dating voice. You surprise yourself by casually suggesting an after tub drink at your local pub and when she accepts, you realize that you have just successfully completed round one of the "getting back to dating" process that you had so been dreading. You congratulate yourself and settle in for "Happy Hour" where the conversation flows as easily as it did at the club and as your comfort level increases so does your daring.
You realize that you want to extend this mini date into a bona fide dating experience and somewhere you find the words to extend an invitation to dine at a local Nepalese Restaurant. Once again she accepts and you are now on an official DATE!!! The cool part is that dinner is highly enjoyable for both of you and after a fine meal that reluctance for the date to end, sets in and you extend yet another invitation, this one to you flat. You know that her acceptance confirms what you have strongly suspected earlier on in the evening; this is you, back in the dating saddle again. Once back at your place, your "date" may be surprised/disappointed that you choose to conduct yourself as a true gentleman but you are gratified to see yourself as an older but definitely wiser version of the dater you used to be thirty years ago. Wecome back!!!