Tuesday, August 22, 2006

And they're apart again

I can't believe the last time I posted was when they got back together. Now of course they're broken up again, and I'm pretty sure this time it's gonna stick. Both of them are seeing other people. And have been since about five minutes after they announced that they'd broken up, so that's...interesting.
Well, not really, seeing as she was pretty much dating her new guy even before they broke up. They just called themselves "friends." But we all knew what was going on. For as long as I've known her, she's hardly been without a boyfriend for more than a week. She sets the new one up before breaking up with the old one. Though this time he broke up with her.
I thought it was great. Okay, so maybe that makes me a bad person, but I was really kinda happy that it was her heart that would be broken this time. Turns out, it didn't so much work that way. Apparently she was "really broken up about it" and she "grieved for her relationship" for a while, but are we honestly fooling ourselves into believing that she was that upset about it? Are we really playing that game?
Well, are they, anyway. I'm not. I'm not good at that game. That pretending to believe that people feel something they don't feel when I know that they are feeling something completely different from what they're pretending to feel game and I have never worked well together.
He really was upset about it, and I'm reasonably sure he agonized over the decision to break it off for a long time before deciding that it really was best for both of them. And if not, then it really was best for him, and that was the only thing he really had to worry about. It is his responsibility ONLY to look after himself. She's a big girl. She can handle it. Especially with her little "friend" to comfort her.
I really am obnoxiously cynical. I should work on that.