My genius cat ate a chunk of the dogs rubber ball and had to be hospilized this weekend for emergency surgery. Will be picking him up in about an hour hopefully. Luckily I recently quit smoking so I can justify the exorbitant cost of this in an intellectual way rather then admit I'm just a giant softy and would have…

I watched the Notebook because a girl I had a thing for was going through a breakup and that was her heartbreak movie. We don't speak now.

Fell in love with a girl who lived with a woman who was in love with the girl I loved. Over the course of several months which included shenanigans like getting drunk with girl and falling asleep with her on this woman's couch, getting in bar fights to defend her honor, loaning girl hundreds of dollars to help her get…

I have an aunt who in her mid-30s began seeing a young man in his early 20s. When he started coming around they dodged the question of age and never really directly answered the question of his birth date. They have now been together for nearly 2 decades. Several years into the relationship I was able to ascertain…

When the ex and I met he was slightly weirded out as I had the same first initial and same last name as his last longterm girlfriend. The last name part was weird as I had never met anyone unrelated to me, with my last name though I know it is more common where he is from back east.

Nope. Alberta unfortunately. Only I would be genius enough to move to this province during an economic downturn. So many of my sisters friends and aquaintances have lost their jobs or are in shaky employment situations.

Thanks for the Yasmine suggestion. I love that soundtrack.

Thanks guys. Reading everyone's comments has really helped me think a bit. To everyone who's noted that I should probably take a step back from communication with the ex, I'll take it into consideration. I realize that was kind of a blind spot and I hadn't really thought about how that may be holding me back.

Oh trust me, he is far from my first love. He is the longest of my relations but if he were to find some one else I would deal. It was the woman before him who ruined me forever.

Yeah fair enough. I get that but honestly I can't at this point. There is still a lot of love there and I can't abandon him yet. We have talked about one of us meeting someone else and have both come to terms about it but I love him too much to just cut off ties just yet.

My ex introduced me to hallucinogens. I was a pretty straight edge teenager, a kind of drunk young adult but I never considered other drugs as they seemed harder or scarier. We went to a Thanksgiving dinner with friends where he brought a bunch of mushrooms.

That was a big part of my ex's issue. He is 11 years older then me and spent much of his 30s ill or in other distress. He is concerned I wasted my 20s with him and thinks we both need to embrace our next decade which wasn't going to happen the way we were going.

So been lurking SL here for months. Reading the conversations has been really cathartic yet soothing. A few months ago I left a 7 year relationship and moved to another province to clear my head. I am still friends with my ex. Very good friends, we text each other multiple times a week and talk on the phone a couple…