Road Kill: Husband Hunting in the 21st Century

Isobel wants a husband. No matter how blonde, how thin, hopeful, old, young or in-between, husband hunting in the 21st century requires resilience, humor, faith, time and energy. Internet dating provides many opportunities – for connection and disconnection. Isobel dated old men and young men, and men in the middle, fat men, thin men, and men in the middle. There were rich men with a sense of entitlement, young men with a sense of adventure, and some men needed a roof over their head, old and young. The candidates were belligerent, peaceful, short, tall, cheap and generous. Some brought flowers. Others were allergic to them. They liked animals and they hated animals or they were indifferent to them. Some were neat; others were sloppy. Some asked to get married even before meeting Isobel. Some liked kinky sex. Others tied women up. Many were impotent. Others tried to enact every unfulfilled fantasy they had during long marriages. There were men with boundaries like strictures and those with loose to nonexistent ones. The men were divorced, widowed, never married. There were men from other countries, alcoholics and ex-alcoholics, narcissists, men who committed, men who were afraid to commit, and those who should have been committed far from other human beings, men with undisclosed terminal illnesses, and healthy men. There were happy men and sad ones. Some were kind. Some were cruel. Sex and desire were everywhere. Isobel tried it all. There were lessons to learn, adventures to be had. There might just be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.