I have a new favourite TV show: First Dates Australia (or UK, doesn’t matter to me).
Of course as luck would have it, the final episode in the latest series aired last week. Which is why I’m able to write this post tonight because I can’t watch it like I’d planned. Humph!
In case you missed it, each episode features about a dozen hopeful singles being set up with a blind date, at the First Dates restaurant. Yep, a whole restaurant devoted to first dates!
Some couples hit it off and agree to a second date; others get friend-zoned; others seem like they might just manage their happily ever after … but do they?!
I think the reason I get such a kick out of it, is that I’m in love with love 
Proof that I’m in love with love!
This isn’t the first time I’ve fallen for a TV show dedicated to helping people to find love.
I was hooked by the last season of Married at First Sight too. At first I resisted – because I was concerned that it devalued the whole concept of marriage.
But I still found myself watching, hoping against hope that the couples would indeed find true love and their own happy ending! (Just did a quick check – Sharon and Nick are the only couple still together from the last series, and in fact she has just moved from Perth to Melbourne so they can be together!)
It occurs to me that perhaps I’m just a little bit, in love with love.
Take my favourite reading matter for example – chick lit, or historical novels – preferably with a bit of romance thrown into the mix.
And for movie watching, I reckon you just can’t go past a good chick flick!
Why am I so in love with love?
- Is it because I have found so much happiness in the love I share with the hubster, that I want others to know this joy?
- Would I still be as keen if I didn’t have a Bear of my own?
- Or am I just a complete sap?!
Then I got to thinking about how couples meet and fall in love these days – more and more, they meet online or via social media.
How does falling in love online work?!
I’m glad I met the hubster the old fashioned way – at work 😉 . (You can read our love story, here.)
It was a wonderful experience, and I’m pretty sure that falling in love online just wouldn’t measure up.
Think of all the things we would have missed out on:
- Being able to remember the exact moment of the first meeting, and feeling a spark even then.
- Those moments when your eyes meet and linger just a little too long.
- The flirtation at the photocopier.
- Looking forward to going to work (and hating weekends) because then you would get to see your crush!
All the build up … the anticipation …
How *do* people fall in love online? Or is it not til they actually meet in real life that the sparks fly?
Can somebody tell this true romantic, how exactly it works?!