Stonegypsy

I am completely smitten, guys. But my existing partner is having a really rough time with it and I’m not really sure how to help him feel better. I’m doing my best to reassure him and continue to give him enough time and energy, and be present when we’re together (basically everything that I wished he’d done when he started seeing his other partner), and I’m not sure what else I can do.

@K Tacos are my favorite food group

@ktfran He came over straight from the airport on Saturday night, we watched a movie and got thai food. The intention was to go out and actually do things on Sunday (we’d planned to go ice skating and then go to the arcade bar), but I think it may have been too ambitious to think we’d leave the house. We made a really nice brunch, he brought me a big bouquet of roses, and we spent the rest of the day cuddling, kissing, and getting to know each other better. We stayed up until 2 talking, and then the next day after we’d parted ways, he came back down to meet me for lunch.
We ended up having another 24 hour date when we got together on Tuesday. We went out for tacos and played pool, and then again stayed up waaay too late talking (3am) so I worked from home yesterday, and he spent the day sitting next to me on the couch studying.
Everything is so exciting and so comfortable at the same time. It feels like we’ve known each other forever, instead of just 3 weeks.

@Ver that sounds amazing!

@Kare yeah. I suppose some exertion of self control is called for. I can at least report that that whole 36 questions/staring into each others eyes for 2 minutes really does work! (When we spent a night/day together, that’s what we ended up doing to get to know each other better)

@Ver I was going to throw my vote in for the brown dress – it’s so pretty! But the gold is gorgeous too. I’m not good with nail polish colors. I chew my nails off and so rarely paint them, and when I do it is always the same deep red color.

@ktfran I’m a little late on this but that is such a cute story! I’m so excited for you

I will be spending NYE at my house, with a bunch of my friends, drinking and playing CAH and Resistance and other games. The adorable physicist was talking about maybe possibly hypothetically getting his flight changed to come back early and be here, but he hasn’t mentioned it since then so I am going to have to wait until Saturday to see him again.

@LadyE That’s so exciting!! And it’s about time you got to have some fun after the last two guys. Congrats!

So I didn’t mention it here before, but about a month after my partner and I broke up we got together to talk and decided to give it another go, with the condition that if it wasn’t more fun than work by the new year, we’d part on good terms. Obviously there were some issues from before that needed to be worked out, as well as what we were each looking for from each other going forward, but it’s been going really well. There was one sticking point which was his other partner (me not liking her, him wanting us to be able to communicate, her wanting to be able to communicate with me), but on Saturday she came over for breakfast and we cleared the air, and kinda talked about boundaries going forward (cause that was a major issue I’d had with her), and things finally feel solid all around there. The communication between him and me has been great in the last few months, he’s trying to be more considerate of our time together.

And the extremely cute/talented/smart physicist is coming back from California in less than a week and I’m really excited. He actually changed his flight to come back a day earlier so we could spend more time together.