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!