Just wanted to update and vent to myself a little here. I have been "seeing" this nice woman off and on but it's long distance - really long distance at least for me. It's an 8 hour drive there and I only made one trip. I'm glad I did, as it helped to open up my eyes to the situation better. The thing is I am disappointed in how it turned out. I made some mistakes myself that I won't repeat again, but overall I could see this potential relationship as a disaster ready to happen! I am glad that I had the opportunity to visit her in her own "environment", to see if something would develop. After leaving, I find it really hard to see anything like a normal relationship if it did continue, (meaning ending the distance and being together). So the trip there wasn't a lost cause.
She's a very nice girl, but she's actually juggling too many things at once, and I really don't need that kind of relationship at this point. We met online, used email, phone, IM, text, and met a few times before as well (she visited my area). So I am closing the chapter with this one and keeping things simple for me by dating locally. I can't do long distance relationships, they are hard enough as it is, they exhaust me, but I am open to them IF the lady I see is so exceptional for me to attempt this again, so it will be a rare thing. 1 in 10 actually make it in long distance commitments.
I just came back from visiting this person last night, so I feel a little let down by it. I'm glad I had the experience, its a big life lesson for me, and I am just licking my wounds of sorts. To put it bluntly as I told a friend earlier today "Long distance relationships suck."
~Sol
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Single Dad, and luvin it! ~ Happiness is a state of mind ~
