Big surprise that it's not working well for me.
Here's Example A of how well things are going:
I meet Joe Schmo at a frat party. He's pretty cute, tall, awkward, and one-hundred and twenty percent into me. We talk, we badly dance, I give him a chaste kiss and my phone number (lalalalalalalalalalalala).
Then we hung out the next day...for six hours. We strolled around campus, looked at a few sights, held hands. It was all very cheesy and 1950's. I took him to one of my good friend's house, mistake #249,904. The awkwardness clung to the air around me, I felt so forced into even the simple intimacy of sitting next to him. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I asked the poor kid to leave.
Have you ever had to do that? Is there a polite way to ask someone to get the fuck out before you use your North Face to hang yourself from the ceiling fan? Personally I couldn't think of one and I was in panic mode.
I think I did an okay job though, by saying, "I'd really like to just hang out with my friends now." then I kissed him and said "can that be a goodnight kiss?" (damn smooth for panic mode, am I right?)
And I have not talked to him since. If the guilt is killing me, then the anger I feel at myself for being such a complicated bitch has already bought my headstone.
I realized just how much I do not, repeat DO NOT, want a relationship. I don't want to share my friends or my time with anyone else. I can't be bothered by the strange "I like you," and "I like you too" but "how much?" parts of a budding
So yeah, I'm not really okay. But I am. Like, I'm functional and happy, just occasionally confused. Also, I'm on the brink of making stupid decisions, like texting the guy I'm still in love with for his birthday so when I'm out for the summer we can have lunch and catch up. I keep asking people whether they think it's a good idea or not, and they all say the same thing. I'm not sure why I keep asking, I know what I 'm going to end up doing.
And so continues the denial train, choo-choo-motherfucker!
I haven't been on my blog or read any of my favorite blogs in a lonnng ass time but, as I checked my dashboard this post caught my eye. First.....good read. Second...Im glad Im not the only fucked individual emotionally and relationship wise (totally not meant to be offensive). As we speak I did not catch up on the rest of your blog or any of my other favs from the past just yet so you might have posted something recently but, I wanted to mark this moment as I relate to it very much.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'm one of your favorite blogs? If I spell things wrong in this reply, it's because my eyes might be a little teary...
DeleteSecond, I'm so glad that I could write something you relate to. The most interesting things that happen in my life are usually related to how fucked up I am, so at least I know my situations are relevant to others, haha
And thanks so much for commenting! It always means a lot to me :)