My record stay here in singlehood, (
we're going on years now people) has really forced me to take a look at myself. I think that's probably why I'm still single. I haven't figured my "stuff" out yet.
Why is it you can know what you want...but lack the ability to find it?
When I want a good running shoe, I try several on, jog around a bit, and instantly know if it is a good fit. I make the decision rather quickly, with no hard feelings about all those shoes left behind. I don't second guess my choice, I know it's the right shoe. I leave happily with my new shoes,
and life is good.
Why do we choose to try on relationships that we know don't fit?
I had a few boyfriends before I met the ex husband my junior year of high school. None of them were right for me. And I knew he wasn't right for me either.
But I still married him. At that time, youth made me believe he would change...
.for me. Well, that was a dumb idea.
I went from a bad marriage to a worse relationship. It was even more abusive, and yet, I had a really hard time leaving it. A dear friend
MADE me leave and put me up until I found an apartment. So, ummm..yea, that one didn't work out for me either.
The next one treated me like gold. I wasn't the least bit attracted to him, but I still moved in with him because he was the first man who was good to me. He seemed "normal". His parent's were still happily married. He seemed to have his "shit" together. But, inevitably, we grew apart, and
that didn't work.
The rest has been played out via my blog. I met another guy and by then.
I thought I had my shit together too. As in...I wasn't living with another guy until we were engaged. So he saved up enough money to get me a ring, propose, and move in to mooch off of me for a year, while I supported him. He worked and stole just enough to support his drug habit.
Fail.
Enter exmanfriend. The end all be all of my relationship highs and lows. I'd never felt the way I felt about him, about ANYONE and he made me feel cherished. I thought the world of that guy, and for the first time in 30+ years, I thought I'd found
the one. I was myself. Nothing was forced. I wasn't pretending, this is what it is suppose to feel like! Except, he just wasn't in the same place as me,
and we all know how that one ended.
It kinda messed me up for a long while. For the first time I not only knew what I wanted on paper, but I knew how I wanted to
feel when I was with someone.
And now, here we are. Dating, and thinking I've found one good one after another, only to not have any of the feelings I expect to have. I still haven't found "it". And it's hard for the guys to understand. You know, the
"feeling" part. We can get along, and have loads in common, but I am looking for
fireworks And I'm not into wasting my time if I don't feel them.
Sometimes I wonder if I am being irrational, and expecting too much, but I've grown enough since exmanfriend to not compare people to
"him" anymore. And simply hold the people I date to a higher standard.
And that's where the shoes come in. I have to believe, that just like I know what a good fitting shoe feels like, so will I know what a good fitting relationship feels like.
I'm tired of tight, pinchy shoes that give me blisters.
Just as I've grown as a runner to value my feet enough to put some effort into the perfect shoe...so do I value my heart enough to put some effort into finding the right partner for my life.
Accepting this scenerio, has made being single seem less like an affliction, and
more like a choice.
These two don't know they are not related....
