I invite someone to challenge my thinking here with an unexpected outcome of my nearly one year off. I thought I'd be "ready" after all this time, but it turns out that I have little (to no) interest in having a boyfriend, and barely see any use in having a one, except as someone:

- to put my feet under when they're cold
- to update my computer
- to check the house when I get spooked.

At this point, these are the few attractive features I can see a boyfriend contributing to my life, which could easily and respectively be fulfilled by a dog-geek-robot. Of course, "usefulness" is not the way to evaluate people, but that's a topic for another post. In the meantime, I hope someone will prove me wrong!