{"id":416,"date":"2002-06-30T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2002-06-30T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-01T05:55:00","slug":"down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/30\/down\/","title":{"rendered":"Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but not out  (A work in progress)<\/p>\n<p><!--more Cut so all do not need to read the analy-rant--><\/p>\n<p>So, I haven&#8217;t really talked about it&#8230;. I&#8217;ve kind of been keeping it to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, i got dumped on the last day of &#8220;our&#8221; vacation. I believe the official charge was, &#8220;Not good enough&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to linger on concerning the nature of the relationship or what happened any more than I&#8217;d want someone else&#8217;s opinions of me littering their journal either. So the rest will be concerning me.<\/p>\n<p>It hurt, it sucks. I&#8217;m trying to move on.  I&#8217;m going to be okay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back to the proverbial square one on relationships. <\/p>\n<p>As always, in trying to make the relationship strong, I focused on making the bonding elements stronger and the breaking elements weaker in me. This time around it was pro-communication (always big) and anti-poly. And it was really easy for me to do both.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of being afraid of expressing how I feel. I&#8217;ve come to the point that I will tell you exactly how I feel. Yeah, I will hope to all hell that you don&#8217;t get all offended by it. Yeah, I&#8217;ll hope to all hell that you&#8217;ll understand my feelings&#8230; But, I&#8217;ve pretty well given up that I will get these things. I have two very dear, very trusted friends who have stuck by me even at my worst. Even when we&#8217;ve fought, we&#8217;ve fought evn harder to right what has come between us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiannaharpar.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">fiannaharpar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/schnookiemuffin.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">schnookiemuffin<\/a> (yeah, it does look silly when typed out) are both two of the more important people in my life and this typically translates to &#8216;take a bullet&#8217; level. Both have been haranguing me to be open for years. Odd thing was that in general I thought I was. Only, in relationships I wasn&#8217;t. In my last one..I was.<\/p>\n<p>As for the anti-poly? That was easy. I recently came to the conclusion that I haven&#8217;t gotten any relationships completely stable. If I can&#8217;t stabilize one&#8230;how can I cover many? Also with the constant onslaught of being told how I was really poly; the combatant aries in me was willing to seethingly challenge the attack every time.<\/p>\n<p>So, now I ask myself, &#8220;What is <i>being<\/i> <u>Poly<\/u>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s not &#8216;just because you support it.&#8217; I support Homosexuality, and as of yet am quite definitely only attracted to people not of my physical gender. So support is not sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>It might be a question of &#8220;would you do it, if the situation was right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dunno. Maybe&#8230;Maybe not. The other issue that came up for me was jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had that whole &#8220;Compersion&#8221; thing down. But concerning the recent, I was viciously jealous.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmn, and now I&#8217;m getting sleepy trying to reason this out. I&#8217;m going to take people&#8217;s advice; try to crash. 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