Ok, you guys are not going to believe this one.
I started dating this guy on Saturday, October 27th a couple days after my birthday. He seemed really nice and we clicked really well. He gave me full body massages every night and cooked me gourmet meals. Let me tell you, I was completely swept off my feet. He told me he was falling in love with me and to be honest with you, excitement is a drug, and I thought I was falling in love with him too.
I had a birthday party on Saturday, November 3, one week after we met and I had about 15 people over. I had my mom and my sister and friends that had known me for 10 – 20 years and a very important man in my life, my good friend, surrogate father and spiritual teacher Bill Burns. Now Bill is psychic and I wanted him to meet my new guy and give me his psychic blessing (or not). I always value his impressions because he has great insights and he can see things that I cannot always see. But I was sure that he would think that this guy was just great.
Much to my surprise the next day, he tells me that he doesn't like this guy for me and I am totally shocked. But I'm getting ready to leave for London and I still think this guy is somewhat ok and well he and I will probably go out for a little while, I mean he gives great massages and is a great cook and is so nurturing and we have great sex, how bad could he be. I'll just go out with him for a couple of months.
But while I'm here in London it starts to eat at me so I e-mail Bill and I ask, what is it you don't like about him and he says, "He is self satisfied, smug, insensitive though he knows how to get people to like him if he feels there is an advantage (massage, cooking, etc.). His arrogance turns people off and his know-it-all attitude is a bore...
So I ask Bill if I should break up with him sooner rather than later and Bill tells me, "Well, Honey, if it is working for you it could last for a while but you were never one to continue what you know could be better.... might as well have a clean start for a new year!
So then I know that I need to break up with him right away, but do I break up with him while I'm in London, or do I break up with him once I get home. I write about it, I pray about it, I check my gut feeling about it. My gut says to call him up right now and break up with him.
It is 1:45am Los Angeles time. I call and he has just gotten home. Not to his home, to my house. I forgot to mention that he was house sitting at my house. I have 8 cats and I asked him to house sit even though I have other people taking care of them as well. I just thought the cats could use the extra love.
Anyway, I just blurt it out straight up, "I have to break up with you" and he says, "what, but I've already given up my apartment". And I say, "What, I never asked you to move in with me" and he says, "I know, but I was so sure about us". And I said, "you've only known me a week!!!!"
At this time I am so freaked out I just want him out of my house now. And then he says, "I'm just going to throw my life away; I don't even want to go on living." So I said, "If you are going to threaten to commit suicide, then fuck you!" and then I hung up on him. I was not going to put up with his sniveling self-pity, I put up with enough of that with my ex-husband.
So I called my ex-boyfriend and told him to go over to my house and collect my key from this guy and get him out of my house. Luckily my ex-boyfriend and I are still good friends and he went over there and got this guy out of my house. I did call him and let him know that "my brother" was coming over and that he should gather all his stuff and that he was going to have to leave the house that night.
The next day I called my mom and I told her the story and I told her that I had her "picker" and that mine was broken like hers was. EEK! But at least I have my good friend Bill Burns to give me a heads up and let me know when a guy I date is not the right guy for me. I think I'll run the name of any guy I date before I go out on the date instead of a week later.
Ok. Lesson learned.