Next Phase

[learnteach]

She gave me the ring back today. I told her to keep it as a friendship ring. She told me that this was the third time we've tried, and she tried so hard it felt like it was breaking her. I feel...relieved. She's right. We are too different on many values to marry; when we look at what we want, we see different things. I feel sad, she's really neat and I want her in my life...but my life is big and complicated and she never really wanted to be in it anyway. I feel mad; she didn't make the effort to get to know my friends...but it's been a difficult set of years for her. Not too easy for me, in retrospect.

So now, like WingedCorset, I need to look at myself outside of a relationship and see how to improve.

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I' ve been there

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But like the Maestra, I'm glad you didn't get caught (twice) and take 22 years to figure it out. I've been introiting and extroiting deeply the last five years, and am glad I am.

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