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Should I risk it? Am I bonkers?

Hi guys,

I don't have the best common sense or grip on reality at the best of times so I'm just going to describe my situation in the hope that someone can tell me whether I'm being crazy or not ;)

As background, I haven't had a successful relationship that lasts longer than a month and don't really know much about how to have one at all. (for type-aware people, I am an ENFP) For the last year or so I have tended to spend a few weeks crushing on someone, go out a few times until one or the other of us cools off and it just stops.

At the moment, I have been 'dating' guy A for about 2 months. (messaging every day, meeting up, going to the cinema etc) but during this time I have been travelling around Europe a lot (coming back between flights) so we haven't seen each other much. He is really nice and kind - a decent guy - who really likes me, we are going to be in the same city this/next year and I get on well with him. However, I just don't feel a buzz, like it's special or passionate...

Unlike with guy B... I met him at a bar in Berlin. He is french, but our best language in common was spanish, so we spoke that. We walked to this romantic, secluded spot by the river lit up by streetlights and talked about everything, just getting to know each other and messing about, sweet-talking. I thought he seemed amazing and was sad to have to go back to find my friends and head back to our apartment. We exchanged facebooks, and the next day he asked if I would want to go out with him and his friends tomorrow. I was ecstatic but it was my last day in the city and I thought it would be bad form not to spend it with my friends, so I said I couldn't meet up with him and that I was sorry.
Since then, we have kept in touch regularly (long fb messages every few days) but mostly just small-talking. I don't think either of us wanted to admit we still thought about each other a lot. Until last night that is, when I admitted it, and he told me he missed me and would do whatever he could to make sure we see each other again.

So now I don't know what to do. I am on a gap year and could afford to go to Paris (where he is starting at art school) for a few days. I have a friend who invited me to crash at her flat in Paris anytime, so if it went wrong I wouldn't be lost. Has anyone had any experience with this kind of thing? Rationally it seems silly to risk so much on someone I technically barely know... but if I can't move on in England with the possibility there of seeing him again... and how would it work? Would I even be able to cope? I've half-planned to go to South America in February for 3 months. And am I stupid to be possibly throwing away a chance to have a functional relationship in my own town? Should I just go there and get these feelings out of my system at least?

I know ultimately it's my personal decision but it would be good to hear any opinions or from people with similar experiences! One of my friend's parents (she told me this story the last night in Berlin when she could see I was down) met only for a day in Pakistan before her Dad flew back to America, but they wrote each other letters often and got together when he went back to Pakistan months later, took her back to the US and got married. ^^ Anyone had something like this happen to them?

Thank you for reading :)
(plz be nice to me XD) :$




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