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Singular: being out of the ordinary
Synonyms: curious, extraordinary, funny, odd, offbeat, peculiar, queer, rare, strange, uncommon, unique, weird
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Synonyms: novelties, odds and ends, sundries
Related Words: bauble(s), bric-a-brac, gewgaws, knickknacks, trinkets; hodgepodge, miscellany, variety

Ask me anything

10th February 2012

I think my rules may have gotten in my way, or the story of the one that got away.

There’s a guy at work that I’ve been talking to for about two weeks now.  I can’t even begin to explain on what level he and I click.  He even said the other day that I was the female version of him.  It didn’t take me any time to realize I REALLY like this guy.  Which posed a problem…..

I have this rule….

I’m less than 3 months out of a 7 year relationship.  My rule is no dating for at least a month for every year you were together.  So this time around that would be 7 months.  I took 2 years off when the 18 year relationship between my kids’ father and I went kaput.

I’ve been doing some serious arguing with myself over this guy.  To pursue him or not.  To say something or not.  Over and over and over again in my mind.  Then I had a conversation with him today that was like a punch in the stomach….

…someone just barely wormed her way in before I got a chance.  How do I know?  Because he was asking my advice on the matter.

Well I gave him as unbiased advice as I could give, then told him that very thing, but to take it with a grain of salt and do what HE felt he needed to do…. then told him why I said that.  So it came out that I was interested… which totally threw him for a loop.  I will probably post the conversation, but let me give some background.

The girl is just coming out of a 16 year marriage.  Granted the last few years were dead like a lot of marriages, but this guy decided to leave her while she was in the hospital having a hysterectomy.  The guy was a total dick, and I guess had been for YEARS.  Emotionally abusive to a degree.  But here she is HUNGRY for a man because she’s had one in her life for so long, and the thought of being alone is scaring the fuck out of her.  She already had a rebound affair with another coworker, and dropped him to pursue the guy I like… and he knows about it.  To make a long story short, it’s the classic damsel in distress causing the white knight syndrome.  *SIGH*

Conversations with the guy to follow….

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