So, I’d realized it wasn’t going to work, but didn’t want to break up with her. I didn’t want to hurt her and wasn’t sure how to stay friends. We only got to talk a few nights a week because she worked late, I had to be up very early, and there were 1,000 miles between us. Monday, she kind of broached the subject just as I was getting off the phone. We wouldn’t have talked again until the next weekend. A girl she liked at work had asked her out for Wednesday, so she knew she had to work fast. I believe I was dumped via LiveJournal if I recall correctly. She went out that Wednesday, they had a great time. I started dating a guy I really liked about a month later.
I’m still with my guy—I love him. She’s with another girl who I think is probably great for her. (The first one was a mess.) I still talk to her all the time and we’re great friends.
I also got a text today from my first long-term boyfriend. We’ve kept in touch on and off. He’s getting married in four months and looking for a house and a job. (He has a job now, he just doesn’t love it.) Wished me good luck on my relationship and told me to feel free to gripe to him during grad school because he’s been there and it’s not a walk in the park. He also used to text me during college when something big went down—I was always in the middle of crazy bad weather and he just wanted to make sure I was okay. He’s really a sweet guy and our break up was half distance, half my starting college, and maybe half it being our second try at a relationship (yes, it was 3 halves).