handy just read the thread since 17.30 and I felt your stress ! So nice to be able to vomit up all our crazy here and then be cool calm and collected later. (Now I see that H was pure stress with ten good dates scattered between the stress) but Twix was just with his son!? The phone call is telling. He was glad you called! I'm glad you had your twix fix. Somebody said (was it Oprah, or somebody's therapist) that uncertainty at the beginning of a relationship is unavoidable!
Yes, waving I like your epiphany "I've realised what a selfish messed up arse he was actually. How dare he make me leave in the middle of the night!" 
[croissant] I have pining envy too!
AnnaChronism good call binning arse farce, and I'm glad that captain pugwash was a good date!
alaugh I think I'm a lot longer out of my abusive relationship than some here. This year it will be 9 years since I left him. A few short relationships, all so meaningless now, H the most meaningless of them all in fact. I'm taking a break right now but it matters to me so much also that I'll have to get back out there.
I'm out with mrcanceller later. Our sober date. I don't have that pre-date feeling. Nervous perhaps more because it will be a sober date. We're meeting early to go for a meal and to see a film, so it should be ok despite no alcohol
This is a thing now isn't it? the no alcohol date? I've enjoyed his company when I'm been on that scale of merry to hammered.
Today I want to tidy up like my house is going to be on that channel four programme, four in a bed. When I come back to it, from the airport, with a tall bearded man in tow, it has to be like a shrine.