MatureDJ
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https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/dating-relationships-never-dumped-interview.html
Starting from the relationships from which her ancestors got married ...
Starting from the relationships from which her ancestors got married ...
The first was my high school boyfriend, but we kept dating into college. He was a nice guy ... I broke up with him in the car outside my dorm, and it was pretty rough.
... round and round goes the lass on the c0ck carousel ...I dated casually a bit after that, and then my next big relationship was my college boyfriend ... We had a very intense relationship that felt very “one true and eternal love.”
After that, I dated casually that summer, including a hot older bartender at the restaurant I was working at. Then I dated a waiter there more seriously and kept dating him when he started law school in the fall. He was really sweet and cute, but I had just always known we were not going to be together long-term. I think he cried.
... but as the Sexual Market Value turns ...In the city, I dated an older musician for a little over a year. It was “serious” in that we were exclusive, spent most of our nights together, traveled together, and so on. My parents were worried about it. But I was confident it was not going to last that long. I broke up with him in his extremely cool car, and he also cried.
... the beta in storage gets called up ...Almost immediately afterward, I started dating a guy I’d met through a friend ... We ended up dating for four years. In this case, I was eventually ready to get married ... I thought that was more than fair after four years of a really solid and happy relationship. My boyfriend wasn’t ready, but he really wanted to stay together even though he was getting ready to move to another state. I eventually became exhausted by that dynamic, and I broke up with him.
... since that was the plan all along ...I still thought about my old college boyfriend a lot over all these years, and we went through periods where we wrote each other letters and G-chatted a lot. To make a long story short, we eventually got married! So my dumping years are over now.
I am a total sucker for “staying friends”.
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