A Rundown

1. His summer girlfriend breakup did not go well.

2. He's never been friends with any of his exes--it's an established pattern.

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I told him he's the common denominator then, by disengaging with the problems that need to be resolved head-on (and sometimes messily) and letting them fester until his past romances blew up at him.

In short, I dodged a big fucking bullet, and in the end, I didn't buy his bullshit attempts to seduce me into feeling sorry for him and compromising my own interpersonal principles to make him feel better. The onus is on him to continue a friendship with me. If he wants to, he'll resume contact again. If more than a month passes, I told him not to bother at all.

I'm stronger than what I want(ed).

And I'm less fucked in the head than he is.

Hah, a 22 year old girl is more mentally adjusted than a 27 year old man. What does that say about him?

What does it say about me?

In the future, I'll give myself more credit. I did, after all, avoid repeating the destructive pattern in high school.