Getting involved with unavailable men was my specialty. I hated the heartbreak, but there was an unhealthy familiarity to these inevitable endings.
The truth was, I was drawn to Michael, but not in the usual surface ways I was initially pulled in by men. Already, I knew we had a lot in common. Both of us hated small talk, yet our conversations together lasted for hours. Michael was a movie trailer editor in Hollywood. I was an actor and writer trying to make it in Hollywood. We were both spiritual, not religious. He had a therapist and an acupuncturist. I had a therapist and more than one type of healer.
Later that night, as Michael drove me home, I flung open the passenger door before he’d even stopped the car outside my apartment in the Fairfax District. “Thank you!” I waved awkwardly before fleeing. If only I’d sprinted away this fast instead of dating that still-recovering sex addict, or wasting my time being sad over the guy who warned me immediately after hooking up that I shouldn’t expect anything from him because he was a clinically diagnosed narcissist.
Michael wasn’t triggering any red flags. He was doing the opposite. Around him, I felt safe, relaxed and free to be fully me. What if we ended up in a loving, committed relationship? NowExcept that maybe it wasn’t. Maybe I just had to be brave enough to break my relationship pattern and risk opening myself up for once to the possibility of healthy, lasting love.
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