Dating a creative person

Creative significant others have done things like written and recorded songs for me and made clever greeting cards. Similarly, inventive friends have apartments that look like eclectic coffee shops, the walls adorned with cool art they created from curbside window panes. Still others make one-of-a-kind gifts for people, like necklaces using the metal polar bear from a can of Coca-Cola. Back in November, residents of Buffalo, New York got creative, too , when their first snowstorm hit, making beer coolers from snow and snowmen dressed in safari-wear, complete with a tree branch arm sticking out, hitchhiking to Florida.

Like all weddings do, it made me think about myself and about what kind of wedding I might have. Which made me think about who I might be marrying and what kinds of thinks he should be aware of. Which led to this post. I am a creative person. As a creative person, there are certain things that a potential partner must be aware of before entering a relationship with me.

She may leave the dishes piled up in the sink. It really doesn't bother her to let them sit there overnight or for a few days while she's obsessed with more interesting projects. If you can't go to bed knowing there are dirty dishes in the kitchen, it's not going to work out unless you don't mind doing them yourself.

When it comes to loving and dating creative people, the reality usually lives up to the expectation — for better or for worse. We creative people whether that means someone who is creative for a living, like me, or just identifies that way by nature are at the apex of romantic human types. We invented the damn game. We're intuitive and aesthetically aware; we're mindful and soft. We can write poetry about our coffee in the morning even if we're too cool for something that cheesy, which I am not.