Hating Early Dating

Susan Kelley
4 min readSep 9, 2021

Doesn’t Everyone? You Ought To.

Photo by Alvin Mahmudov on Unsplash

There’s the movie screen variation: the meet-cute, the romantic dates, the charming, funny stuff that happens, and then the resolution in a culminating long-term relationship. It’s steadfast.

I get stuck somewhere around the meet-cute and the dates part.

It’s nearly paralyzing, actually.

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Susan Kelley

Susan is a runner, a mom of 3 grown children, and an avid traveler. She writes about humans, and wrote a book about false accusations of sexual assault.