We now interrupt our regularly scheduled Fun in the Sun Week

I'm going to do something I don't normally do and comment on a comment. Largely because I've gotten a lot of feedback from people that have run across it in the past couple of days and have asked me, "What's up with that comment?"

So clearly, if it's on other people's minds, it should be discussed on the blog. I'm all for an open forum here.

For those that don't check the comment area regularly, I'll save you the trouble of tracking it down.

ummmmm . . . a SERIOUS relationship??

you've met ONCE.

this is kind of scary - like a schoolgirl's first crush.

no offense is met - i'm just scared for you . . . you are all of a sudden sounding like this guy (WHO YOU'VE MET ONCE!!!) is your whole life.

like i said -it sounds like a schoolgirl wioth her first boyfriend.

be careful with your heart!

I love that someone out there is concerned for my well-being. I love that they know how horrendous and traumatic heartbreak can be and that they want to save me from that. That's amazing. I am incredibly thankful for all of you that have been reading this blog for the past several months and that have both cheered-- and prayed-- me on. I am incredibly thankful that I have so many great people to share this exciting adventure with.

The purpose and mission of this blog is to write about my adventures in the online Catholic dating world-- in hopefully an entertaining and for the most part, lighthearted way. Sure sometimes it may seem a bit exaggerated and far fetched, but that's my personality. My goal is to make you giggle.

Because it's an online dating blog, you won't be hearing about my family, or my friends, my faith, my career, what I'm doing with my free time, what's keeping me up at night, or anything else about me, unless I can somehow tie it back to dating. What direction this blog will take after the online project is over, I'm not sure yet. It may delve into those other areas. But for now, I'm doing what the great MyFaith editor Cheri sent me to do-- write about my life in the online dating world. And it just so happens, that my life in the online dating world is Seth. So I can understand where it would seem like he's my life, because he's all I talk about here. But that's the job I'm getting paid to do.

Out of respect to both Seth and I, there are a lot of things in our relationship that don't get discussed in this blog and that simply don't belong in this blog. It's private. Not to mention it would probably bore you to tears if I rehashed our entire daily evening phone calls, which run from 1 to 3 hours on any given night. If I threw in our lunch phone calls and daily emails and text messages you might all stage a riot. I can guarantee you, we have our struggles, our joys and our sorrows that we work through together. It's an entirely new and different dimension to what you hear on the blog, and unless you're on my Besties email list or part of the Guckeen family, you don't hear about it.

It's what makes this at times rather public relationship private.