I tried, I changed, but still am getting divorced!

[newmama]

Gatsby, no zoobrew hasn't initiated any contact since I texted him on Mon evening. At least I got the impression he is still interested in me! I am 99.9% positive I will hear from him in time to go out with him next week! Here is what my gut tells me about him, though:

He is interested, curious, but cautious.

Here are some clues, taken from our conversation here and there, that I am using to make that inference (so I am not accused of blindly mind reading, lol!):

He told me I was the first person he dated since he broke up with his ex girlfriend in April. He had asked me a lot about how I was responding to the divorce and told me that I was in the grieving process. He shared his experience of hitting it off with someone after his divorce but then he pushed her away because it was too soon.

He said things like "it took me a long time to get over my exW. A long time. But now it's fine! I don't want her back. I spent the first year trying to get her back, and then I spent time mourning and I dated too soon.....here's a test to see when you are over your ex...when you are first dating, you will be comparing others to your ex. When you stop doing that, you'll know you are over him."

"you're putting your ex on a pedestal, that's normal to do at first" and "how do you feel about the idea of your ex having children with her or someone else"


But I just went back to my posts and re-read my description of the date and the communication we had afterward. Yes, he likes me! I am acting like Rugby "DOWN Girl!" so I am going to pull off ANOTHER academy award performance (DBing with stbxh was my last one...am up for a different role now with zoobrew....) and be calm, cool, collected IRL.

So please forgive my silly immature gushing here on the thread...if I don't express it all here it might leak out with zoobrew and I could push him away!