It’s over. Done. No chance of reconciliation. Hasta la vista baby. Fuck. Angry. Sad. Overwhelmed. Stressed. Hurt. Debilitated. Without. Empty. Frustrated. Surprised. Crushed.
I don’t know where to start or how to put my thoughts into words. At this point I’m just going to leave this post as is and come back to it another day when I can think….
Here I am, days later, after what feels like a lifetime.
This woman. My best friend, my confidante, my laughs, my fun, my love, my life, my wife, my soulmate; is leaving me. Not for another man, not because I have some inherent flaw that she can’t live with, not even to pursue ambitious dreams, I was down for that ride; nothing as tangible as that. She has been soul searching; and in her soul searching she has realized that she is missing a certain kind of love in her life; a love I cannot give her; a love I have never given her. An intimate, deeper, fuller, romantic and sexual love. Not just lust, but more. She loves me, but not in the way I just described; she has realized she never has. Now, after 7 years, 3 of them married, she has realized that she cannot settle for our love and she cannot find the love she is looking for here. I love her more than life itself. I have since I met her in Junior High School, I am so consumed by her, she is the most gorgeous woman I know, inside and out. She’s not just the kind of woman I physically want to be with she’s the embodiment of the very essence of what I want with me in my life. Before I met this woman, I didn’t have aspirations of being married and having children. I didn’t want that. It was to the point where I questioned my sexual orientation, it was only the fact that I’m blatantly attracted to women that made up my mind. Then I met her and it all changed. I loved this woman for more than a third of my life and I’ve been with her for almost as long. “Inseparable” as my mother would say, “exactly what I want in a relationship” my friends would say. When we talk women and what we want and my friends are trying to find words for what they want in a woman they say “You know, like yours…” and I couldn’t agree more. Intelligence, beautiful, sexy, humour, patience, charm, charisma, joyful, vivacious, logical, reasonable, approachable, gorgeous… I don’t have a large enough thesaurus to explain to you how wonderful she is. Now here I am.
I can’t help but wonder; what could I have done differently? Is there something undesirable about me? Did she find someone else? This mindset has plagued me for weeks now; and when the inevitable defeat of my thinking comes it makes room for the very darkest of thoughts. I find my self stuck in this horrible state of inaction because with exactly one half of my body and soul I want to fight for her; change everything, never let her go, and have her by my side for the rest of my life. Just like I’ve been told all my life by the media and everyone “If you want something, go get it, period.”. The other half looks farther into the future and thinks “could I live with myself knowing that she will never be as happy as she could be while with me?”. The answer is no, I think it would be worse than letting her go., knowing I am the very obstacle keeping her from what she needs. So with 51% of my heart and soul I hold myself together everyday, battling this incessant back and forth inside with hopes that someday in the future I will know that she is the happiest and most fulfilled she’s ever been. It is this very hope that keeps me strong; for within the 51% of me I have left I am divided yet again. What if she does not find what she is looking for? What if maybe what she is seeking is right here, within me, right in front of her? I hope she can find what she needs. I will remain less than half, as she has taken with her most of me and what is left is broken; divided and at war. I truly, truly, wish that she finds exactly what she is seeking; until then I will remain at war within myself; it’s when I know that all hope is lost for our reunion that I can gather up the remains of myself and move on. A shell of a man with a broken soul, patched and pieced together, but with half missing; this is what I hope for. I plan nor expect to love again; at this point I don’t know if I want to; half of what is left leaves little to none.
I’ve never regretted anything in my whole life, and I am being completely honest I have not one regret, but I do now. I will regret losing you for the rest of my life, I will regret not spending the little time we had so much differently. We shared so many great memories, but I experienced what I had with you like I had the rest of my life to experience with you; it was ok to go slow and plan things for the future. Had I known I only had these seven years, I would have truly experienced life with you, in the moment, taking every opportunity I could do do the things we love and wanted to do together as much as possible. Explored, lived, loved, laughed. I hope someone else does not make the same mistake I have; I hope he lives everyday like it was his last with you, instead of living to the last of his days remembering you…
I love you, with my whole heart and soul. I hope you find what you are looking for.You are an incredible woman, I’ll miss you, take care of yourself.
I’ll be fine.
Forever yours,
XO