September 3, 2008
I have continued to date The Butler I told you about last May.
It’s not like me to be so silent about my dating exploits, but this one seems like a keeper. I guess I was afraid I would jinx it if I wrote about him while we were still dating. To tell the truth, I started dating him long before May, I just found myself being uncharacteristically reserved about talking about him.
The Butler has continued to pursue me and seems to be perhaps even more impressed my by mind than my body. I like that about him. I like that he shows an interest in my business and my writing. I like that he wants to know my opinions and enjoys arguing about politics. I like that he reads to me in bed.
We are officially an item.
We have met friends and families.
We are exclusive.
We have both said “I love you.”
We have exchanged keys.
I am however doing the thing that I said I would not do. I am pursuing a long-distance relationship.
Living in separate cities has both pluses and minuses. On the plus side, you are always happy to see each other and it is very easy to continue being independent and make time for your friends. By the time you start to really get annoyed with each other, one of you has to go home to work. On the minus side, when you need to have a fight everything is compressed. Everything somehow becomes bigger and more important because you have to resolve it before a week passes without looking into each others eyes.
I wonder what it is that makes me so urgently want to have things be resolved. Is it the distance between us that is causing me to feel that we both need to make a commitment now?
Is it the distance between us or is it something deeper in me?
Comments
cathy (cathy) says...
Michelle, remind us... why do you call him The Butler? Can you say?
September 4, 2008 at 6:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
mchurchill (mchurchill) says...
That's his job..... he's actually a butler!
September 5, 2008 at 1:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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