It's been a long time since I was in love. Hell, it's been a long
time since I allowed myself to be in a position to fall in love. That
also means that it's been a long time since I have had my heart broken.
Until now.
Have you ever met someone and knew that they were the one? Well, I haven't. But I was intrigued by Adam. So intrigued that within weeks, I was head over heels for him. He was nothing like my ex, which meant everything in the world. The best part was that he obviously felt the same. We spent nearly every possible second away from work together. And we liked it and each other. We were in that whole beginning romance stage where sleep doesn't matter anymore, only the pleasure of seeing each other. All the time. Heaven.
Within a month, the sacred "l" word had already been used and I know I meant it with all my heart. At the time, he did too.
Things were going great until all of the sudden they weren't. He's a workaholic but that's fine because I'm a craftaholic. I have plenty of things to keep me busy while he was working both for his dad and in his wood shop on various projects. But then he went to Florida and all of the sudden things were different.
He came back and worked all the time in the wood shop. That first week I saw him once. I don't mind his work tenacity but to go from hot to cold so quickly was a shock. He claimed work but at the same time he seemed very distant. I'm not one to hold stress against anyone. I stress out probably more than anyone I know, so I let things go. What else was I supposed to do? I try not to be THAT nagging girlfriend who gets jealous of everything, including work.
Then things got okay again. He was still distant but making an effort.
Then back to weird.
This went on for over a month. After nearly a week of not seeing him and him being all distant and detached when I did see him, my heart broke down and called it quits. My brain told me to keep trying but my heart ached in pain. I cried a lot for a couple of days.
But then he let me help him in his shop with some wood work stuff and said we were bonding. It was a good couple of nights. That Thursday, I was going to help him for the third night in a row and was making our dinner when he called telling me he was going to watch tv with his brother. I think that's when I knew for sure. He hadn't taken time to just "hang out" with me in nearly two weeks and kept talking about how he really need to get his work done but then he goes and takes a break with his brother. Fine. I'm not invited. I understand. But it was sudden. We had spent a good couple of nights just talking and having a good time. Or so I thought.
I don't know why, maybe my heart knew something my brain didn't, but I cried myself to sleep again that night for the last time.
Friday afternoon he was apparently downtown visiting his art gallery friends and they weren't there so he called me. We went for a couple of beers at West Side Local and talked before he went out with some old guy friends of his. We talked about how some people, like him, aren't very open with their feelings. Then there's me, who can't keep a secret. At least I make it known. He said he would call me when he got home. He didn't. I wasn't surprised. The next day he worked all day. I went to nephew soccer games and Lisa's yard sale. That night there was a Hogs game on tv and I don't have cable. He came and picked me up around 8 pm and we went to Tower Tavern so I could see the game. I leaned over to kiss him at one point and he said I was very clingy that evening. He dropped me off around 11 pm claiming he was tired. He's never done that before. Sunday he went to a Chiefs game with some clients said he would call that afternoon. He never did. I knew then that it was definitely over. He called on Monday evening around 7 and wanted to stop by to talk. He hugged me when he walked in instead of his usual kiss.
He sat down on the couch and I sat back down on the floor where I was organizing Alicia's baby clothes. We made small talk for a couple of minutes before I said "So what's going on?" and he said something like "How do you know something is going on?" and I said "Well, you said you wanted to come over and talk. I'm not an idiot. I know that something is going on." Then he said "I just don't feel the way I think I should feel." Whatever the fuck that means. It's not like I was surprised and I told him that. He had been acting weird and minus my occasional paranoia, I am pretty good at reading people. I told him that he hadn't been fair to me because I knew that something was up and he did too and it took him that long to tell me. He sat there for a bit and said he felt awkward and left. As he was leaving, I told him that I didn't mean to be mean, I was just hurt. I'm sure he thought I didn't mean it because I only got a few tears in my eyes.
I knew it was coming. My tears were spent days before.
I had him stop back by the next Sunday to return some things I had left with him and told him I wasn't mad at him anymore and maybe some day we could be friends.
A PART OF THIS POST HAS BEEN CENSORED BY ME. I can't blame him for breaking up with me. You can't help how you feel. We've all been there. But to go from such hot to cold feelings in such a short time makes me wonder what was up. Did I say something or do something? Did someone else say something or do something? Did his ex have anything to do with this? Does she have a more powerful grasp on his feelings than he even knew?
Now I have all these negative, broken heart emotions that I'm dealing with. At one point, I get angry. The other end is the sadness. I can't stop thinking about it. I don't know if I'm still mending a broken heart or just trying to figure out what went wrong. The latter of which I shouldn't even try to deal with because I probably don't want to know. The problem is the endless hours of me alone with my thoughts. My stupid ping pong ball in a small room brain is going crazy.
Thursday night, I drove down to Mom's and all I could think about were the songs that expressed my broken heart and the stupidity of my soul wanting to make a "mixed tape" and leave it on his door even though my brain knows it's the stupidest idea I've had in 2009. So, in order to stop obsessing over it, I'll post my play list up here as I come up with it. Just because I don't give it to him, doesn't mean I can't still make it. Maybe it will help my heart mend?
I'll keep working on it until it doesn't keep being an obsession...
- Call It Off - Tegan and Sara
- Your Cloud - Tori Amos
- Black Hole - She & Him
- Don't Wanna Cry - Pete Yorn
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