Forty minutes from anywhere anybody wants to meet, entirely on my own
Posted as caliche_road_quiet
- Looking for
- someone willing to make a long drive more than once
- Experience
- Nine years, all of it before I moved out here.
- Around
- the Clear Lake side, Houston
I moved into my father's house four years ago to look after him, and after he died I stayed, which surprises everybody including me.
It is a long street on the south east edge of the city, forty minutes from anywhere anybody would suggest meeting and ninety once the freeway fills. I have three neighbours, all of whom would know within a day if a strange car sat outside for an evening, so discretion here is not a preference. It is arithmetic. Thirty eight, submissive, nine years of experience, all of it from before I moved out here. I have not so much stopped as had nowhere to put it.
What I am asking is difficult and I know it. Somebody who would make a long drive, more than once, without expecting the first visit to settle anything. Somebody discreet by nature rather than by instruction, who understands that I will be careful about where we meet before I would ever have you out here. I can travel too. Not often, because of the dogs, but I can arrange a weekend with notice.
What I do not want is somebody who finds the isolation romantic. It is quiet and it is hard, and I have cried in the truck about it more than once. I also do not want somebody who thinks a woman living alone out here must be desperate enough to accept anything. Men say that in polite disguises and I hear it every time. What I want has not changed since I was thirty. Structure. Somebody who expects things of me and notices whether I did them.
I write well and at length and I have a great many empty evenings. If the distance is the only problem, write to me anyway and we will see.