Being Single

The other night I was up pretty late bitching about being the third wheel to one of my friends. He had been broken up in a similar way to me; been with a girl for 2 and a half years, thought they were in love, thought things would work out, but then girl dumps him. Both of our ex-girlfriends began sleeping with other people practically right away. Well, I don't know that mine did, but she started seeing someone not long after, and it's not like I'm going to pretend she didn't like sex.

Anyways, he and I talked a while and he said something that kinda hit me. Instead of thinking about the negatives (holy crap there are a lot. Even the other night, when I watched "Up" I thought "Who the hell am I going to go see Pixar movies with??" If I show up at a Disney movie now by myself, the cops will be called) I have to think about the positives of being single. I laughed for a second, but he listed off a few things and I was like, "You know, I won't have to deal with her when she's on her period anymore."

And Bam, they started flowing out. This is the start of "Why Being Single is Awesome" my attempt to trick myself into actually believing who I am now is better than who I was before.

1) No more periods.
Now, I know I'll run into periods again. Every woman has them. My ex's though were pretty bad. She didn't get pissy, she didn't get mad. She got sad. This may seem like a stupid thing to complain about, but let me tell you, when she was on her period, suddenly everything was a catastrophy. Last semester, every one of our relationship "fights" occurred when she was bleeding. It was like a dementor hovered around her when she was on her period. Even before last semester though, that's always when she'd ask "What if we don't make it?" "Why haven't you proposed to me?" "I don't want to go back to school 3 months from now." Being the amazing boyfriend I was, I bit my lip and tried to be comforting. I accepted these were her periods, and as the significant other I had to put up with that shit. When she broke up with me she was on her period.
Let me tell you though, her periods were particularly bad the last year though. She was an amazing girlfriend, and being so, she went and got an IUD put in while at UVM. We talked about it alot, and I wanted it to be her choice; it was free, part of a survey. The side effect though was that her period suddenly became twice to three times as long. She didn't bleed the whole time; she spotted for a few days, and she always would be "one day away" from the big flow. During the summer, our potential sex days were suddenly cut in half. During the school year, our already limited sexual windows became near nonexistent, with only one weekend a month turning into a sex crazed fuck-fest. To be honest, I didn't mind. I thought I had my entire life to have sex with her (the sex was great). Again, I was wrong.

So, periods not only gut into my emotional happiness by turning her into a walking tear-machine, but they also cut into the potential sex time. Unfortunately I'm not sure where that leaves me now; I love not having to deal with an emotional wreck, but I'm not having sex at all. And, I'm still getting over this break up, so I'm still emotionally stressed anyways. But, it's almost like an investment. Sure, it's tough right now to look on the brightside of having no periods, but once I don't care anymore, I'm sure I'll love their absence.

I had a few other ones, and I'll be sure to post them as they come up.