Our Way
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“Why? Didn’t you end up getting back with your girlfriend?”
“No.” He rolls his eyes. “I really fucked things up there.”
“What happened?”
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?God.” He sighs, “Where do I start? When I got back from the conference, she wanted to talk.” He shovels some more sushi into his mouth.
I frown as I listen. “And?”
“So….” he shakes his head as if disgusted with himself. “Of course, we end up in bed and now I don’t want anything…” He rolls his eyes and makes the blah, blah, blah sign with his hand.
“You used your ex-girlfriend for a booty-call?”
He pinches the bridge of his nose. “Sounds bad when you say it like that.”
“Did you?”
“It wasn’t my fault. She looked hot, and my dick accidentally fell out of my pants.”
“I hate it when that happens.” I fake a smile. For fuck’s sake, are all men completely clueless?
“Right?” He scoffs. “Me, too.” He continues eating. “Anyway, now I’m the worst in the world and she’s messaging me ten times a day to tell me so.”
I smile sadly. It feels good that everyone has shit to deal with.
“How’s your guard dog going?” he asks as he chews.
“Not so great, but that’s another story.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.” I sigh. “We were best friends for a long time before we went out.”
“How long?”
“Ten years.”
His eyebrows rise in surprise. “Wow.”
“And we only recently connected, and then we moved in together like two weeks later.”
He winces. “Well, that was fucking dumb.”
“But we practically lived together, anyway, so…”
“Yeah, but it’s completely different when you’re sleeping together. You should have waited at least six months before you moved in together. You’re too familiar. No wonder you’re fighting all the time. There’s all this added pressure. You would never move in with a new boyfriend after two weeks. This is no different.”
“That’s exactly what it is,” I reply. “It’s like we’re in a pressure cooker, you know? We are fighting over things I would never have imagined.”
“If things don’t get better, you should move into your own place for a while. Then, date again. Get some space from each other. Remember why you’re in love.”
I chew as I listen. “You think?”
“I know. Everyone has issues when they first move in with a partner. There’s no such thing as a smooth transition, but add in the long-term friendship to the mix and it would be a nightmare. You already know each other so well, there would be no boundaries.”
That makes so much sense. “So true.”