Putt King, hopefully you're significantly younger than me, but a massive
amount of time will pass with not a lot happening and it will shock you.
I can't go back and tell my younger self that his apparent experiments
were the beginnings of exhausting and unnecessary patterns but I can say
something here. You say you're not bothered about this woman but you
are, this thread being the evidence. You're rightly enough telling
yourself otherwise, it's a sort of self-hypnosis and might help in time,
but you're still ruled by hope, by hopes. You will never get this time
back, and two years will be ten and then twenty before you know it. You
don't need to be unfriendly to the woman or make a big thing of it, but
each messed-up or cancelled meeting with this person will eat further
into you and have some role in how appealing you can be at a later date
or at least how healthily you can deal with later opportunities.
There is strength even in, if it comes to it, telling this person why
you've decided to stop meeting up. She might in the moment be angry or
verbally abusive, or may cry or just frown or walk away, but in your
head and hers it will be plain that you've done something that shows
self-awareness, and a wish to develop. You might be tempted to wish then
that the show of strength will affect this woman positively, that she'll
see you differently, but with a population of over 6 billion, why see
the world of possibilities as revolving around what can happen in the
situation you're currently focused on?
If she suggests a meet, can't you sort of smile and say, "Oh you know,
better not eh!" She says why, you say, "You're lovely and all that, but
this ain't doing me any good, I've got to get myself a future haven't
I." If you can see the merit in that, and if she's got a working mind
then you can have your quick hello in the corridor etc, if need be, but
both of you will be at peace with the change. You don't have to make up
something about being busy. Even if you're not and are open about it,
that you are not willing to indulge further pain and frustration to fill
some time is a show of strength, and is strength.
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