I cried a little on Sunday after learning that Nebraska got throttled by the Tigers. I was expecting a loss, we were due, but I wasn't expecting that we wouldn't show up at all. I am now very glad that I didn't watch the game.
So why Lindsey didn't you watch the game (because I know that is the question running through your minds)? Because I had a date of sorts. For reference, I suck at dating. I have never been good at it. I make all of the wrong mistakes, every single time. When I look back on my dating life, save for one semi-normal relationship, I can see every single wrong choice I made. And that fact overwhelms me. It causes me to be over
analytical when it comes to
pursuing new relationships.
One of the things I pay the most attention to is equal playing fields. I don't like to go into anything knowing that one person is more interested then the other. If it is me that is more interested I feel like I am setting myself up for disappointment. If it is the other person I am often left feeling obligated. It is silly and there is no rhyme or reason for it, it is just part of me.
In this case he is very ahead of me on the playing field. I have known him for going on eight years so there is history there. And I think part of me has known that he has always been interested. And I never was before.
So why am I know? I don't know. I actually can't say for sure that I am. I am treading down a very
slippery slope, preparing myself for the fact that I might be doing something that I am going to regret.
Am I settling? Is it because I am so sure of what I want that I am making an exception? Because what I want is so far from my reach that the possibility of it ever happening is so slim.
I don't know yet. That is the complicated answer.
I need to have a conversation with him, sooner rather then later. I have a complicated history. I have major commitment issues, I have intimacy issues... the list goes on and on. Normally when things happen I just do the exact thing that will end any chance for it to move forward.
But I am lonely. I am tired of being a single. I think it is because of the changing weather. I want someone to cuddle with and watch movies. And he is by and far one of the sweetest men I have met in a long while. But there is a line when sweetness can become
suffocating and he is entering that
territory.
Or maybe it is me that has the issue. Maybe the way he is acting is normal and I just can't handle it. I haven't been in a even mildly healthy relationship since I was twenty. So did I lose my chance? Have I fucked up so much that I am destined to be alone?
My neighbors had their baby this weekend. A tiny perfect little child brought into the world with all of the opportunities still ahead of her. I would give to be there again. How wonderful it would be to have a clear slate, no
issues, not past
trauma. But then again those issues and
trauma make me what I am, give me the personality and the strength that I use each and every day. Would I give that up? Probably not.
Well I think I went on long enough about that. But it did get me thinking, which is good. Now comes the deciding, which isn't half as easy.