Personal, Relationships - Friday, August 28, 2009 10:15 - 13 Comments

‘Cause Breaking Up’s Hard to Do

Some of you guys noticed in my post earlier this week that I mentioned my girlfriend is moving to Africa this Sunday. The answer is yes; we’re breaking up. And it sucks. We’ve both known it was coming… she got this job back in January, but we decided to stick together because we both still enjoyed being together.

Well, D-Day is just two days away, and it’s rough. The slow, dull feeling of depression is starting to set in. And that feeling of a knife twisting in your chest every time you think about has begun. It’s a feeling that’s starting to become a little familiar at this point. But it doesn’t make it any easier.

Breaking up is never easy, regardless of the circumstance or who does the dumping (cue Beavis and Butthead laugh… he said “dumping.”)

But what’s hard to remember sometimes when you’re in the midst of an awful break up, especially if you’re the dumped… and ESPECIALLY if it was a first love type deal… is that it passes. Shit’s going to be OK. One day you’re going to feel great again and happy with somebody else, and probably much sooner than you imagine.

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