Nursing makes you appreciate your mortality and value the time you have. Wasting one moment of your life seems silly when you see so many people suffering from a variety of illnesses. Two years into my program I was inspired to end a relationship that was making me unhappy.
For approximately 1 year, or half way through my longest long distance relationship ever, I wanted out. Everyone wants what they can’t have right? Well perhaps it doesn’t take the majority a total of 12 months to say something as simple as, ITS OVER. It all ended with a fateful conversation where many f bombs were dropped culminating in a cheesy line like: “I just don’t think we bring out the best in each other anymore.” As I pressed the little red phone icon on my blackberry I breathed a sigh of relief. A huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders… Or had it?
The breakup between my panprovincial, long-term boyfriend and I was probably the highlight of my early twenties. The following day--which most respectable young women would spend mourning the loss of their torrid love affair—I ventured to a friend’s birthday party. Not just any friend, but an acquaintance friend. And we all know what that means— the potential to meet new people, more importantly, new men. That night I met what would be the first in a series of exhilarating and very short-term relationships…
For someone who was finally breaking free from an addiction to serial monogamy I had a lot to learn. The first “relationship” after a breakup, better known as the rebound, can take many forms. For me it took the shape of a charming environmentalist with a Quebecois accent serenading me with an acoustic version of Tom Wait’s Ice Cream Man. There I was at my acquaintance’s birthday party, standing in the kitchen, drinking punch from a measuring cup (classy) and giggled, so unaware of what lay ahead for me.
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