Rebuilding Rob

I’ve wined and dined with Kings and Queens and I’ve slept in the alley eating pork and beans.

Dusty Rhodes

Two years (and a few days) ago, I had dinner at Jessica’s brother’s house – probably the most luxurious, expense house I’ve ever sat in. I wrote about that experience in the embedded post below…

Kid 2 was asking me about Jessica – and her daughter – yesterday. I haven’t really given them a whole lot of thought lately. But it will be two years ago this fall that we split up. The break-up is still rather distinctive for me as I was the one who initiated and went through with it. Whenever you break up with someone, you inevitably ask yourself “What if” from time -to-time.

Jessica and I were serious. Granted, in hindsight, we both weren’t in the same headspace, but we were getting serious. We are starting to talk about future living arrangements. it wasn’t something I was actively looking into at that point, but she was already trying to warm me up to the idea of getting a job closer to where she lives.

I don’t regret my decision to break up with her, but I still think about her a lot. We’re Facebook friends still. That is to say that we don’t communicate, but neither of us has the guts to push the “unfriend” out of fear of looking like the jerk.

As I’m getting older, I’m realizing more and more that relationships don’t always end because of a lack of compatibility. Often times, they end because of bad timing.

I stumbled across this TikTok video just now when it seemed kind of appropriate…

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