How we met
The strange thing about beginnings is that they rarely are a
simple point in time. They are a bunch of random happenstances that converge on
a single point. In some ways we were like that.
At the time of our meeting one was living in a long term
lesbian relationship. We were the golden couple, the ones that had it all. The
house, the mortgage, the fur kids, her kids... in some strange way one had
ended up with everything one never wanted... one just didn't know it yet.
He came into our lives via one of her kids and at the time
of our meeting one looked at him and thought what on earth is she doing with
him. It wasn't the usual feeling of he isn't good enough... it was more of a
flick of recognition... one deviant to another if you will. It's like when
gaydar goes off... you can always spot your own kind.
Now as it turned out he wasn't with her exactly... he was
with the online persona she had generated based on one's characteristics as she
perceived them. Needless to say that relationship didn't last very long...
great little actress though she was, she wasn't that good. They broke up and we
kept him... much to her chagrin.
And we were very good friends, a merry little threesome who
hung out and had a good time.
Meanwhile a cat that one was very much attached to died and
it became something of a catalyst in one's life. Actually it triggered a terrible
bout of reactive depression. One would wake up in the morning almost OK and by
mid afternoon one would be so blue that life was almost pointless. It was a
very bad time that made one re-evaluate everything... particularly the life one
had acquired.
By this stage the soon to be ex and oneself had reached an impasse.
We had problems... communication issues ironically. They had always been there,
but until the degree, with its heavy emphasis on counselling communication, one
had never really noticed before. We were always too busy doing the lesbian
party lifestyle.
After the cat though...
We did try to fix them, but it is very hard when one partner
doesn't have the skills or the desire to change and ultimately chooses not to,
opting instead to make promises and not act upon them. We couldn't negotiate a
compromise and we spiralled further and further apart. Living in the same
house, sleeping in the same bed, not having sex with each other, it was such a
fucking cliché in some ways.
Meanwhile he was on about his third attempt at a relationship
and we were good friends who flirted outrageously with each other, but we spoke
the same language having been to the same university and loved the same sorts
of movies and books and... and... and...
We flirted and went out to movies...
There was an unwholesome attraction under all of this. We
just didn't do anything about it... too damned complicated and add to that he
was a man cub of about 26. Way too young to be taken seriously...
Until that damn
movie that changed everything. The one that lost a girl her
lesbian card
So that gentle readers is how we met. It doesn't present the
full facts nor does it give both sides of the story, but it is the bare bones.
Otherwise this would end up the size of a Tolstoy novel. Consider this the
first instalment... of a serialised version of our past... actually "Anna
Karenina" was published in a serialised form originally... let that be a
warning to you J
Here endeth the first part. Stay tuned for how we ended up
in this type of relationship and he became He...