mrmuffins
Jul 15, 2007, 08:28 PM
It's a doozy... strap in...
I met this girl at work about a year and a half ago. She was an intern so our time was limited. Without going into too much detail, we seemed to really hit it off. She really helps me find myself. I would use the word soulmate if I believed in such things. However she has a wildly promiscuous past, an alcoholic, and on the verge of being addicted to drugs.
Oh and she was engaged.
Which really sucked.
So we were just "friends." We discussed everything. Told each other things. We just understood each other. We discussed constantly how our "friendship" was wrong. Men and women just can't be friends. Sorry to disappoint you, but nothing happened. At least nothing physical. This relationship continued for about 6 months. She gave me many opportunities to take advantage of the situation, but I couldn't risk losing her to sex. As sex would clearly cause too much controversy in her life to warrant continued contact with me. Finally she went off and got married. And I waited to hear from her again...
Some months pass. And we begin to talk again. Luckily she had moved away so we were simply friends. Only talking every now and then. About a year later she drops the bombshell that she is separating from her husband... because she cheated on him...
My initial reaction was probably the most immature possible... "mostly-contained jubilation..." this feeling was quickly followed by the inevitable... "Why wasn't it me? I thought I was important to you?"
A couple weeks pass... and she needs to come to town and wants to stay at my place... Of course I oblidge... So I finally get to see her again... and its like she never left. One Friday night on the town with her... again nothing really happens in a physical sense because I feel that I need to respect her marriage until its officially over. So she leaves the next day but will be passing back through on Sunday... and we set up one more meeting...
Well... Saturday is complete and total agony for me. It was easy to avoid having a relationship with her before... but now... she infests my mind like never before. So I make a pact with myself to talk about it when she comes back through on Sunday.
One of the first things she tells me when she returns is how she slept with this douche bag last night. Unknowingly this twists the knife and I ask if we were ever going to go to that level. To which she says no because neither of us would ever make the move to take it there. So I explain that I can't make a move because she is technically still married. And she is surprised. But explains that friends can't have sex... of which I agree... and explain that's not what I am looking for... I want a relationship... She says anything is possible but she doesn't want to say that it could happen... She also adds that what we have is probably more of a relationship than anyone she has ever met...
So I say that I am not sure I can continue to be friends with her if that is the answer because I can not control my feelings for her. I go on to explain that I can't bring myself to stop talking to her however so the only thing I can do is get her to understand the agony and ecstacy that she puts me through when I am with her... She apologizes... And we talk for a few more hours... Then off she goes back home...
Will we meet again, who knows?
There are many questions that arise here...
Why do I have this uncontrollable urge to be with this woman so much more than any other?
How do I move on when over the year that we hadn't seen each other no other woman could possibly live up to her?
Why doesn't the drug addiction, promiscuous tendencies, and alcoholism scare me away?
Honestly, I just don't know where to go from here...
How can I destroy one of my best "friendships" simply because I can't stop wanting a relationship with her?
If we have such a great relationship, why doesn't she want to be with me?
Perhaps I have already solved my own problem... time will tell...
Sorry its so long... I think this was more theraputic than anything...
I met this girl at work about a year and a half ago. She was an intern so our time was limited. Without going into too much detail, we seemed to really hit it off. She really helps me find myself. I would use the word soulmate if I believed in such things. However she has a wildly promiscuous past, an alcoholic, and on the verge of being addicted to drugs.
Oh and she was engaged.
Which really sucked.
So we were just "friends." We discussed everything. Told each other things. We just understood each other. We discussed constantly how our "friendship" was wrong. Men and women just can't be friends. Sorry to disappoint you, but nothing happened. At least nothing physical. This relationship continued for about 6 months. She gave me many opportunities to take advantage of the situation, but I couldn't risk losing her to sex. As sex would clearly cause too much controversy in her life to warrant continued contact with me. Finally she went off and got married. And I waited to hear from her again...
Some months pass. And we begin to talk again. Luckily she had moved away so we were simply friends. Only talking every now and then. About a year later she drops the bombshell that she is separating from her husband... because she cheated on him...
My initial reaction was probably the most immature possible... "mostly-contained jubilation..." this feeling was quickly followed by the inevitable... "Why wasn't it me? I thought I was important to you?"
A couple weeks pass... and she needs to come to town and wants to stay at my place... Of course I oblidge... So I finally get to see her again... and its like she never left. One Friday night on the town with her... again nothing really happens in a physical sense because I feel that I need to respect her marriage until its officially over. So she leaves the next day but will be passing back through on Sunday... and we set up one more meeting...
Well... Saturday is complete and total agony for me. It was easy to avoid having a relationship with her before... but now... she infests my mind like never before. So I make a pact with myself to talk about it when she comes back through on Sunday.
One of the first things she tells me when she returns is how she slept with this douche bag last night. Unknowingly this twists the knife and I ask if we were ever going to go to that level. To which she says no because neither of us would ever make the move to take it there. So I explain that I can't make a move because she is technically still married. And she is surprised. But explains that friends can't have sex... of which I agree... and explain that's not what I am looking for... I want a relationship... She says anything is possible but she doesn't want to say that it could happen... She also adds that what we have is probably more of a relationship than anyone she has ever met...
So I say that I am not sure I can continue to be friends with her if that is the answer because I can not control my feelings for her. I go on to explain that I can't bring myself to stop talking to her however so the only thing I can do is get her to understand the agony and ecstacy that she puts me through when I am with her... She apologizes... And we talk for a few more hours... Then off she goes back home...
Will we meet again, who knows?
There are many questions that arise here...
Why do I have this uncontrollable urge to be with this woman so much more than any other?
How do I move on when over the year that we hadn't seen each other no other woman could possibly live up to her?
Why doesn't the drug addiction, promiscuous tendencies, and alcoholism scare me away?
Honestly, I just don't know where to go from here...
How can I destroy one of my best "friendships" simply because I can't stop wanting a relationship with her?
If we have such a great relationship, why doesn't she want to be with me?
Perhaps I have already solved my own problem... time will tell...
Sorry its so long... I think this was more theraputic than anything...