So far so good, I think, on dating front

IHAVE been seeing someone for almost a month now and I’ll tell you what I’m telling anyone else who asks: ‘So far, so good’.

Actually, most of my friends don’t ask about my love life anymore. They have their own boyfriends, husbands and kids to think about and it’s hard to keep track of all my short-lived dalliances. “Which one is this again?”, they’ll say. “Is he the one with a cocaine problem, or the guy who told you he didn’t like sleeping with ‘new people’?” To be clear, this one is the one I met on Bumble. Our first date involved narrowly avoiding a run-in with his ex in a beer garden, bumping into my boss and some Class A flirting. Our last date involved me going on a motorbike for the first time, a trip to Kent, a swim in a river and some Class A kissing. “What is the world coming to?”, is the response of one permanently single friend when I tell him about my current relationship status (which I would classify as ‘single, but getting some’). He also advises me “not to overthink it” but overthinking has never been my problem, to be fair. The thing is there’s nothing to overthink about really: he’s funny, smart, sexy, easy to talk to and has a motorbike. And he seems to really like me, which as I have slowly come to realise, is vital.

All I’ve got to do is show up (preferably with clean hair) and occasionally shut up (I talk too much). The thing is, I get why people who have been single for long periods of time might be freaked out when they eventually meet someone they like, because when it’s good, it’s so easy — no drama, no fights, no sub text. So every time I think ‘Wait, is this too easy?’ I just tell myself to shut up and repeat ‘So far, so good’.