I guess you gotta just take life as it comes. I was engaged for four years and she cheated on me with a guy she met that we both played EverQuest II with. He apparently flew down here and now shes planning on moving to where he is. Go figure. We broke up in late December/Early January. Ironically I've learned she's already cheated on him with some other clown.
It took a long while to get over and I hadn't really so much as had a date since then, until recently anyway. Yep, nearly 8 months. I finally met a girl a few weeks ago that I'd been talking to. We'd made out and all that good stuff, so there was defenitely an attraction. I was genuine with my feelings for this girl though, don't get me wrong - I liked her, but I was at a huge disadvantage from the get go so I well prepared myself to not take it too fast. She was Bi, but much preferred women normally. We connected on some level though. I slept over at her house at her request quite a few times. We never actually slept together though, partially my fault. I didn't make any effort to, simply because the one time it seemed like it was going to happen there was a little bit of alcohol involved and I didn't want it to go down quite like that so I guess I stopped it. I don't think I quite get girls well enough to know if that's a turn off for girls or what, so I have no idea if that has any influence on the rest of this whatsoever. I didn't stop in some horrible way or anything and she didn't seem to mind. The hanging out continued for a while. We wern't officially dating, but we did spend alot of time together and obviously some things DID happen between us.
I could tell though it's going to be rough, again due to the sexual preference thing =P. That's always a killer, hehe. The other night after I snagged my Machinae tattoo actually, I went back to her place and hung out a while. Watched some of the L Word with her (are we seeing the signs here?) and about the time that we'd normally go to bed, she asked me if I would get home okay. Instantly it was a like a soft little slap in the face and I snapped back into my good ol' reality. I knew what it meant, I gave her a hug and smiled and said "Of course" and excused myself.
Sure enough, when I got home I got a text saying "Sorry if I was acting funny tonight". I responded "No problem, is everything okay?". She responded "I have alot on my mind and I dont want to hurt you". I responded back with "Not sure what to say but I think I get you. It's okay, thank you for being honest ^.^" (Yes, I included the super-smiley!)
I was expecting that to be it, but there were a few other texts "Always. Im sorry, I'm just a mess right now". I responded "Well if there is anything I can do to help let me know, and I mean that". She said "Thank you sweetheart", I said good night and that was that.
Whatever the case may be, I wasn't particularly crushed. I think the four year engagement thing kind of made a bit more prepared and just overall protective of myself. It really didn't bother me at all, I refuse to let myself get that close unless I know we're BOTH serious. And besides, we were making pretty good friends when we met and it's cool that it seems that our friendship was spared some terrible mess.
Like I said, at this point on that front I'm taking life as it comes. A while there I shut myself out from it, now I'm just cruising the whole dating/relationship scene kinda slow. I'm very open to it, but I'm gunna let just happen and not worry about it beyond that.
