So....
Steve and I have broken up.
In reality, I broke up with him. But the outcome is the same. After four years, two spent long distance, two schools and god knows how many miles... it's over. The reasons are a little abstract, but I guess the easiest explanation is that it had become more habit than attraction, and even though he was my best friend (still is), it wasn't really anything more than that.
And I met someone else.
That wasn't the reason for the breakup, but it was certainly the motivation to finally act on it. I apologize for 1) keeping you all in the dark, and 2) writing those damned abstract entries, but now you know what was going on. Basically, Carolyn and I went out for drinks the Saturday before last, like we usually do, and ended up in a conversation with 2 American guys, as we usually end up doing. Spent a few hours bar hopping with them, and by the fourth bar or so, one of them, Michael, and I had developed some chemistry. Spent the rest of the evening with them (got home at 6:30 the next morning), and he ended up calling me Sunday night, and we met up Monday at 10am for some touring. Spent the entire day together... he ended up not moving on Tuesday, and we spent that entire day together... dinner and a very long evening on Wednesday... then he left, but we've been exchanging emails and he's been calling me. It's kind of serious. He'll probably be in Geneva, Switzerland, when I'm there this weekend. He's coming to Boston for a weekend or so in June; I'm probably going to Colorado (where he lives) in July for a bit. It's completely and utterly illogical, but chemistry is chemistry, attraction is attraction, and I'd never really understood the term "driven to distraction" before.
So that's what's been going on. Hope things are going well with you all.
In reality, I broke up with him. But the outcome is the same. After four years, two spent long distance, two schools and god knows how many miles... it's over. The reasons are a little abstract, but I guess the easiest explanation is that it had become more habit than attraction, and even though he was my best friend (still is), it wasn't really anything more than that.
And I met someone else.
That wasn't the reason for the breakup, but it was certainly the motivation to finally act on it. I apologize for 1) keeping you all in the dark, and 2) writing those damned abstract entries, but now you know what was going on. Basically, Carolyn and I went out for drinks the Saturday before last, like we usually do, and ended up in a conversation with 2 American guys, as we usually end up doing. Spent a few hours bar hopping with them, and by the fourth bar or so, one of them, Michael, and I had developed some chemistry. Spent the rest of the evening with them (got home at 6:30 the next morning), and he ended up calling me Sunday night, and we met up Monday at 10am for some touring. Spent the entire day together... he ended up not moving on Tuesday, and we spent that entire day together... dinner and a very long evening on Wednesday... then he left, but we've been exchanging emails and he's been calling me. It's kind of serious. He'll probably be in Geneva, Switzerland, when I'm there this weekend. He's coming to Boston for a weekend or so in June; I'm probably going to Colorado (where he lives) in July for a bit. It's completely and utterly illogical, but chemistry is chemistry, attraction is attraction, and I'd never really understood the term "driven to distraction" before.
So that's what's been going on. Hope things are going well with you all.