The term that came into my head was "mother," and I made it "parent" to obscure my identity a bit more. "Scientist" too was an effort to be intentionally vague; I would more normally describe myself as a psychologist or a psychology researcher.
Other parts of my identity that I deliberately left out as potentially too revealing: that I am married to a man, that my children are very young, that I came to the UU church because my husband wasn't Christian but we still wanted to go to church together.
I should probably add that I live in the city and enjoy it. It's also part of my identity that I have a significant online presence and that online interactions are emotionally important to me, but it doesn't really seem relevant to this context.
It was actually pretty hard to think of how I could describe myself without revealing my identity, especially given that I don't know how well my mystery partner knows me. It could be someone I have conversations with at coffee hour, someone I've taught with or served on committees with, or it could be someone I don't even know.
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Other parts of my identity that I deliberately left out as potentially too revealing: that I am married to a man, that my children are very young, that I came to the UU church because my husband wasn't Christian but we still wanted to go to church together.
I should probably add that I live in the city and enjoy it. It's also part of my identity that I have a significant online presence and that online interactions are emotionally important to me, but it doesn't really seem relevant to this context.
It was actually pretty hard to think of how I could describe myself without revealing my identity, especially given that I don't know how well my mystery partner knows me. It could be someone I have conversations with at coffee hour, someone I've taught with or served on committees with, or it could be someone I don't even know.