{"id":45653,"date":"2012-08-07T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45653"},"modified":"2012-08-07T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:43:35","slug":"tales-from-jewish-dating-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45653","title":{"rendered":"Tales From Jewish Dating Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dating is the one thing you get worse at the more you do of it.<\/p>\n<p>I came to Los Angeles at age 27. I went to 20-something evenings at Aish Ha Torah. Then I started going to 30-somethings. What a difference! The youngies were filled with hope and life while the oldies were bitter and cynical and stuck in their ways.<\/p>\n<p>A big reason that men like me prefer younger women is that they are generally less bitter, less sure of themselves, more flexible, and more open to admiring their man. <\/p>\n<p>The more you date, the more bitter you tend to become. The rage becomes rigid.<\/p>\n<p>As for that shanda that Jewish women are sexually cold, that has not been my experience.  <\/p>\n<p>In my first 18 months in LA, I got with about 20 women, most of whom were Jewish. They were very generous with me. One even lent me $500 when I needed to fix the car I was going to live out of (once I&#8217;d moved out from her pad because her family, friends and therapist said I was using her).<\/p>\n<p>I had a reputation at Stephen S. Wise temple. They used to say that I was a whore. <\/p>\n<p>A common thing I used to tell myself about my women, my homely women, was, &#8220;She&#8217;s the best I can do right now.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t want to be alone in my grief. I wanted to lose it inside of a woman. I wanted the hottest, smartest, finest woman I could get but I was more than happy much of the time to settle for fives. As long as they weren&#8217;t high maintenance. <\/p>\n<p>I was a womanizer, but a very lazy womanizer, as Cathy Seipp put it in my memoir. I could never be bothered to put much effort into it.<\/p>\n<p>I like a plain-spoken unpretentious woman. As long as she&#8217;s not too big or too musty, I&#8217;m quite happy with plain so long as she has a nice personality and likes to take care of her man, to cook and to clean, and to read books so that I always have stimulating company. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating is the one thing you get worse at the more you do of it. I came to Los Angeles at age 27. I went to 20-something evenings at Aish Ha Torah. Then I started going to 30-somethings. What a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,21],"tags":[1877,29556,1397,1337,29981,29555],"class_list":["post-45653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-personal","tag-aish","tag-family-friends","tag-jewish-women","tag-shanda","tag-torah","tag-younger-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45656,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653\/revisions\/45656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}