Before you can really understand where I’m going with this blog, you have to understand where I’ve been.  I grew up an only child in a small but affluent town in Texas. Its next to a big city so we weren’t lacking for anything but apparently the great schools are one of the things that drew my parents to that location. I hadn’t really dated in high school so I just knew college was going to be my window to find the perfect guy and maybe find a degree along the way. I went to a conservative college in another…