The marriage trick attempt

It hasn’t worked since Valentina. Nothing, nada, never. Since then, only Laura has failed. By the way, she comes to our house every now and then, apparently it wasn’t a one-time occurrence with my roommate, so it’s not like it’s more serious, I don’t think so after all. There are other women coming out of his room too, which I admit, it’s impressive, well, the guy looks good, but not in a Brad Pitt kind of way, well, not so much that I really understand why he has so much choice has, more than normal good, so just good, not very trained or big or anything, nothing, but it has wear and tear, I tell you… Yeah, maybe I’m a little jealous. But what do you expect from me? Like I said, nothing has happened since Valentina.

With a woman I matched with on Tinder a while ago, I found myself having a very confident conversation, not too much, not so tense. I’m-just-hanging-on-the-phone-and-thinking-about-it – that’s a nice thing, but in such a way that you can also have a life next to it, but also in such a way that it conversation never dies. She looked great, at least on profile, was funny, interested and knew the such-that rule. She said several times that she wanted to go for a drink, but then wrote last week that she had just had enough of online dating and was ready for a break. She didn’t say why.

I don’t meet anyone in bars or clubs or anywhere else, but that’s nothing special in Switzerland. It’s always been that way.

Whatever the reasons for my silence. The fact is: it’s been a while. And if “it’s been a while,” I’ll admit that sometimes I come up with some pretty good ideas. In any case, I didn’t contact Sina, Valentina or the woman we won’t mention here again, which I guess can be seen as progress and success.

A week ago I met a friend from school, we see each other once a year at most, he lives in the Agglo, where we grew up, and lives a completely different life than me. He’s one of those guys you’ve only seen as a duo since he had a girlfriend, and he’s had a girlfriend since he was 22 years old. Always the same. Yes indeed. Irr. He has different hobbies – he plays cricket, yes, he plays serious cricket – and a different circle of friends than I do. There’s a simple reason why I’m seeing him for the third time this year, the first time was for his hen weekend – I hate hen weekends per se, but that’s another story – the second time was at his wedding. I don’t necessarily hate weddings, but I attended a total of seven weddings this year, which was definitely overkill. There is a lot to say about these weddings, but I run the risk of being recognized, so we will have to let some time pass. The third time we saw each other it was just the two of us – that was last week.

The evening was very relaxed and good, perhaps because he showed up alone for once. Nothing against the girlfriend/wife, she’s doing well, but I’m friends with him and not her. I asked if anything had changed since the wedding, the get-together. He said no. But, he said, pointing to his wedding ring, this was a new experience. “Since I started wearing a ring, women look at me and treat me very differently. It’s like suddenly I’m more interesting because I’m officially off the market.” He’s flirted aggressively, complimented, and women are more interested and nicer. If he were still single, he’d be very successful now, he said. ‘If I had known the effect that would have,’ he said, ‘I would have worn a ring as a single.’ “I definitely have to try this out,” he continued. “Absolutely. It will work wonders.”

Now I actually have a problem with wedding rings. What kind of outdated and somewhat absurd idea is this that you should mark another person with a ring, a public declaration that this person has a connection with another person? What is it good for? I will never get married, but if I did, I would certainly never wear a ring.

But I found, worth trying, because, like I said, it’s been a while.

My conclusion after a week with a ring on my ring finger – although I must admit that I only wore the ring on three nights when I went out. At work everyone would have looked at me stupidly and it doesn’t help much at home either. That means he might have Laura… No, he wouldn’t.

So the conclusion.

I’ve had sex a total of 0 times.

I have been contacted a total of 0 times.

I received a total of 0 mobile phone numbers.

One evening a distant friend of Hanna’s spoke to me for a very long time, which I almost wanted to call a success. At one point she said she would like it if there were still men with traditional values. So without obligation problems. Hanna heard this and started laughing, but then didn’t say why she was laughing because she “wanted to protect me” as she told me later, but the whole situation was so weird that her colleague got up, went to the toilet and then turned back on sit on the other side of the table.

So guys, if you ever get a tip about the ring, don’t do it. Just don’t do it.

The glimmer of hope: yesterday I matched a woman on Bumble. Yes, I use all apps. ALL. We have an appointment for next Thursday. She is looking for “something relaxing”, is 1.87 m tall and her hobby is CrossFit.

Wish me luck.

So long,

Ben