How Do You Know?

Let me set up a hypothetical for you...You have been single for quite a while. And in the midst of trying to heal a broken heart, you are trying to adjust to new surroundings, advance in your career, and take care of your children to the best of your ability. It has been quite some time since you've dated, because now, due to the nature of your heartbreak and poor choices you've made in the past, you are very skeptical about every man you meet, and tend to look at each and every thing about them under a microscope. At times, when things look like they can go a little further than friends, you completely shut down, and whatever good vibes any man sends off are immediately ricocheted by that tough shield that you have built around your heart.

After a couple months of your children asking questions (which probably is not their business at their ages), things looking better in your professional life, and as the healing process becomes easier and easier, you meet someone who is not as easy to brush off. A great guy who is charming, smart, ambitious, with an honest 60 hour per week job, no children, new to the area, with good wholesome values, who has asked YOU about a church in the area. You stand him up for the first potential date, but he is relentless, not to mention, you are really beginning to like him. Do you proceed, or do you not?