so the breaking up thing is over but the healing and recovering is not.
i have, as previously mentioned, never broken up in such a friendly manner so my experience of this and the resulting emotional response is nil. actually that isn’t entirely true, my ex tr and i split friendly but we were stuck living together for basically a month and things just went from bad to worse.
here we split up and did NOT see each other which has made the healing process significantly more… well, healing.
it’s interesting because i miss him but i don’t miss him enough. in fact the missing is quietly fading into the background without my really noticing. i suspect that it helps that we took a break for a month before meeting to decide what to do.
i suspect further that the fact that we were BOTH ready to end things makes it uch easier because neither of us needs to recover from the ache of hurting someone you love. and let’s be clear, we did love each other and still do but not the way you need to to make it work long term.
it was too easy to take a break, too easy to split up, too easy to heal. i don’t mean that these things WERE easy only that they weren’t hard *enough* after all was said and done.
i’ve gone on a date since then… but he was a schmuck.
then this week i stopped in at one of my favourite lunch joints and stepped up to the bar and the gentleman sitting there with money on his bill promptly ordered another cappuccino. much chatting ensued and we now have a date to meet for lunch next week.
this is a milestone for two reasons, not the least of which is that i FINALLY got asked out after a five year drought. seriously, in five years not one man asked me out that i didn’t somehow approach first. feels good.
furthermore this is a nice man and i look forward to knowing him better whether we end up friends or dating. this is NICE.
what’s weird is this strange feeling of impending dating. i seem to have come into my personal power such that people are interested in me now and so even if this guy doesn’t work out i feel like someone else will come along pretty quickly.
this requires some odd thinking for me because although i didn’t know if mr. big and i would stay together forever like i certainly felt that we would be together for several years. it NEVER occured to me that i might have sex or become intimate with someone else anytime soon.
there was the possibility that after a few years we might have opened our relationship but still he was to have been my ‘main man’ so to speak.
now i have to think about this journey of discovery with someone else.
someone new and unexpected and different.
i have to let go of what i knew and what i expected and find a new path…
and it feels damn strange. not wrong… exactly. but strange for certain.
it’s probably akin to the feeling of letting a new cat into your life after the previous one dies. you’re used to your old cat and it’s habits and needs and this new cat, while still a cat, doesn’t quite act like you might expect.
it doesn’t like your old cats favourite treats or toys and in fact isn’t that fond of this kind of food either. not to mention that it does NOT like it’s tummy rubbed but loves being picked up. it’s like a little record scratch in your brain that just keeps happening.
of course, after a while your new pussy gets used to your ways and you get used to the way it likes to be scratched and all things sort themselves out.
but it’s still weird for a while.


