"Here, this is for you. You said you liked to read them."
"Yeah, I do. But, we aren't dating and you've told me over and over that you don't really see us getting married, so why are you giving me all of our emails in a binder? "
"YOU SAID YOU LIKED TO READ THEM, GEEZ."
"Yeah, but we broke up..."
(I think he really knew all along we would end up together and that is why he made sure to print them out--before they were lost to stupid hotmail cemetery. He wanted them for posterity...but he tried to camouflage it.)
AND, while I was in London, Ryan wrote some of his best stuff to me. Let me include a paragraph here...
We dated a couple years ago because I was attracted to you and asked you out and we had a killer vibe and chemistry going for a few weeks until I got hung up on you acting weird about picking me up at the airport--and it ended badly. But somehow, maybe partly because of the bike path talk, we ended up back together in a bizarre romantic/friendship game and we've made it kind of work since then. The only times we fight are when you bark at me like a hen or get weird about what I'm supposed to say or think or do--and maybe if we were just flat out dating like normal people you wouldn't do that to me, and we'd be perfectly serene like birds...or salamanders who are f'ing oblivious to the fact that they live in a river. They just know there's a rushing going on around their rocks.
The rest is history. I hope he doesn't get mad at me for posting this. But, he sent me such great stuff and people should read it!
Anyway, I started this because I wanted to include this NYT article. It's awesome and so true.
R We D8ting?
"How had we managed to speed through all the stages of an actual relationship almost solely via text message? I'd gone from butterflies to doubt to anger at his name on the screen, before we even knew each other."
A Text Message Love Affair Gone Wrong
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