if you can't beat 'em, forfeit? the dating game edition
dating in this day and age doesn't seem to have the same appeal as the Netflix produced rom-coms suggest, and coming from someone who hasn't been on a first date in nearly 4 years - the odds of that number refreshing are as slim as the chance that i'll be walking down the centre of a room to wedding bells any time soon. long-winded for an opening line, but the sentiment is as full and overcomplicated as the sentence itself. when i was 5 years old my parents would ship myself and my sister on the road with them to visit the distant relatives and even at that young age there were three things i could rely on occurring before the days end zia would get emotional, hysterically crying as she insisted on one or ten more hugs before we stepped foot outside her home on the return to our abode there would be enough food to feed a battalion and leftovers to spare i'd be questioned about the whereabouts of my boyfriend, a dating profile and a save a date for the wedding seems a...