Dating myself

Ariel Meadow Stallings
9 min readFeb 5

This is the story of how I stole my ex’s hobby, and started dating me.

Years ago, I had a lover who joked that their hobby was taking me to beautiful places and telling me that they loved me.

…Except for it wasn’t a joke. They would plan these elaborate, customized date days. I’d get in their car and find a pre-rolled joint of my favorite Indica blend waiting for me…

Ariel Meadow Stallings

Director of Publisher Growth @ Medium, but also an author, publisher of offbeatempire.com, and devotional dancer - because I contain multitudes, and so do you!