Whoa, just out of curiosity, did you really?
It's been so long, it took me a minute to figure out how to log in. But, I'm doing fantastic. Like, really fantastic, to the point I can't...
Thanks tart - again, I think you've hit the nail on the head. And thanks to the rest of you. It seems pretty obvious that not seeing her is the...
Watery - very well said. That's pretty much exactly how it went down, at least in my mind. But I've been thinking about it the past couple days...
Like I said Cadet, I was very dense. I recognize that. But I'd spent months planning to fly in her best friend. It was not easy or cheap, and I...
I broached. She gently but firmly (is that possible?) said that's not in the cards at this time. Which was actually helpful.
We'll see, Xan. I don't think she would've packed up all her shit, left me and the cat and gotten her own place if she wasn't pretty damn sure of...
Xan - the thing is, people would always warn me that she wasn't going to wait around forever, and I knew it. My response was always, "I understand...
Why would I make that specific part up? I don't know how interesting the specifics of this are, but it wasn't an all the sudden thing. Basically,...
Ouch. Like I said, I know it sounds odd - that's why I didn't get into the specifics of it in the initial post.
Yeah - basically she'd resigned herself to the idea that we were never going to get married, and started mentally distancing herself from the...
Xan - A bunch of personal baggage. The funny thing is, I'd worked though that shit and was planning to propose right around now. She figured that...
I'm a man, she's a woman. The "Thanks Abby" was because it started feeling a hell of a lot like a Dear Abby letter by the time I was done. She...
This is my third "big" breakup (those of relationships lasting more than a few months). It's amazing that you can forget exactly how much it fucks...
Just out of curiosity Buck, is this something you learned the hard way?
Separate names with a comma.
