THE MOODY MAVEN RECIEVES A PROPOSITION

Here We Go Again

One man with many names or many men with fake names and stories

Sneaky boy mining for information by playing the sympathy card! Photo by Łukasz Konieczka on Unsplash

Can it stop raining men for just a moment or two?

Funny thing is they all seem to use the same playbook, sharing their techniques of sweeping unsuspecting women off their feet with with some smooth talkin’.

But here, listen up. We are on to you.

Some of us, anyway.

You are the Nigerian Prince. You are the lonely rancher. You are the love-sick millionaire.

You are the man in Iraq —

The opening salvo is the same, it’s always the same. Screen shot of Corwin’s icebreaker

The last time a man “in Iraq” contacted me, it was to tell me that he had recently lost his wife and so had become a single dad to two small children. Two small children that needed a mom.

As sad and plucky against my maternal instincts that might have been, the sitch was just too weird and whack.

What kind of man wants to turn over his “young children” to a woman he knows practically nothing about? All he knows about me is that I like writing tongue-in-cheek and snarky things…