I woke up feeling okay today despite being hungover, with a rotten gut & stale alcohol seeping out of my pores.
I was supposed to get more xanax today, but have changed my mind.
I am never happy with them, anyways. What’s the point?
I haven’t heard from Matthew or Joe.
Joe, in his own mysterious way, seems to have some kind of pattern of his own. He seems to know me better than I know myself somehow. Which makes zero sense.
He said there’s nothing he is afraid to ask me. I wouldn’t lie to Joe. And I am firm in my belief that I do not owe a new love interest my life story. Nor does a new love interest need to hear about my pathetic, agonizing, very recent breakup with an avoidant man.
That’s not lying. I suppose the worst thing I am doing is playing the game the way I perceive myself to be played.
Joe also wants to make sure that we are on the same page physically, not just romantically. Overall I did feel a pressure.
I canceled our date to be with family instead.
It’s a good thing, there has been a lot of growth in me. You see, I am a recovering sex addict. Like, not just a horny lady but a full blown addict – kinda like what you might read about in a Chuck Palahniuk book. (He is a shock author.)
Joe has been one of the only men I’ve felt comfortable and safe getting to know without feeling this odd need to provide “duty sex,” which is undoubtedly part of my sex addiction ritual.
He seems, on a vibrational level (meaning I am assuming. My therapist used to repeatedly ask me not to do it but-) unhappy about that.
He seems generally eager to get the ball rolling. He offered me a great life, 100% love, and all I have to do in return is love him and be fully 100% honest and his.
Now how the fuck did he guess I am neither his nor honest? Plus it’s just too early for him to ask that of me. Unless he’s ready to open up a sour can of worms – and watch me cry over another man.
Does Joe have a pattern too? Just like I have a pattern of falling madly in love with avoidant men. He may have a habit of pursuing emotionally unavailable women, and he already assumes I come with some old, dead barnacles that need to be shived off.
Maybe he has proposed this beautiful arrangement to women before me, and is growing impatient with all of them. He has great taste though, clearly.
But a friend of mine, a very dear friend and someone close to me, reminded me that I don’t need to give in to the pressure. I am grateful that he took the time to strengthen that within me. It led me to following my heart and canceling the date.
Joe, Matthew, anyone who may know me that is reading. I really am an open book.
I’m just an alien that appeared here one day, with zero clue of what is going on.
To my friend, who will read this, I love you very much. Thank you for being the hero and the real man I needed in a sea of algae, weeds, and flounders.