During the fourth year of my on-line dating grand adventure, I could have loved this frog if intimacy didn't terrify him. Just goes to show that lust and chemical attraction isn't enough. Read the whole messy tale in Cyber Frogs And Princes: A Sex Manual Of On-Line Dating After 50 by Suze Q, available on Amazon, Google Books, and Walmart. Woo-hoo!
Chapter 36: Paul
Silver Single Name: Paul
Frog Type: FOI/C, rhymes with fuck, Fear of Intimacy/Commitment
"Thoughts: Paul's comfort level was living as a roommate with his aging mother, passing his simple days on below minimum wage subsistence. Entertainment was watching documentaries of places he'd never been and would never go, experiences he'd never have, playing guitar to old songs written by someone else or himself decades before. He hadn't been with a woman in eight years and my touch sparked some pleasures that he'd forgotten. The cracks in his emotional shield scared him. Maybe he understood on some level that the bubbles in time we had spent together couldn't translate to the real world, and so he found that it was easier to superglue his armor back in place than to do the hard work of being emotionally open for a real commitment. Not only was I frustrated most of the time during the end of our relationship, but I felt like a stalker. I clung to his words that he'd never met anyone like me and that he wanted to spend time taking care of me. Primitive male possession of his woman was my interpretation of his strong feelings, but the more I sought emotional connection, the higher his anxiety became until the easiest solution for him was to end everything... I was again reminded that this quest was not for the faint of heart." -SQ