Posted by Roberta Lipp on January 12, 2008
There will probably be some small bites about this as I process.
This process shouldn’t be too hard or take too long, being as pretty much the last four months, or eleven, depending on how you view it, have been about me accepting, or preparing to accept, that Joe and I aren’t forever.
What are the ways in which it is important that you match, and what are the ways in which it is important that you fit?
I was always aware that Joe and I don’t match. We have some common ground and compatible opinions and preferences, but we are foundationally very, very different. However there was always something comfortable about us, whether alone together or around other people, as a ‘couple’, as it were. We fit so nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Roberta Lipp on January 12, 2008
I wish I could remember the details, but I dreamed last night that we (no idea who the we is) arrived at someone’s house (again with the no idea) and they had a huge dog (taller than me) that jumped up on me and I was trying not to freak out but as soon as I felt the fear inside me, the dog reacted by snapping at my face.
It was interesting how the physicality in the dream was completely accurate. I could feel the dog on me, feel me trying not to react, and then actually, viscerally feel the lurch of fear, and then I had the thought He’ll smell the fear, and then the snapping.
The dog did not bite me. I wish I could remember the rest; I partly remember not having a meltdown, and I partly remember a minor melt. I partly remember nobody reacting (coming to my rescue, or especially, whoever I was with, who knew me and knew I have a fear of big dogs, not coming to my defense), and I partly remember there was some activity around it all.
Feeling conflicted about being abandoned by Joe much?
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Posted by Roberta Lipp on January 12, 2008
We actually for real broke up last night.
I am actually for real okay.
We will actually for real go on as friends.
I will continue to miss him. I am not great at not pining. It’s like, my best subject.
But come the day of the groundhog, it becomes time to sweep away the pine needles.
Right now is the right time for this in my life.
(But as a wise woman once said, dumped is dumped.)
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Posted by Roberta Lipp on January 12, 2008
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