We Both Have A Lot Of Growing-up

Anxiety Was Not An Emotion I Could Ever Remember Feeling When I Went Out In New York, And I Wondered Why Tonight Felt So Different. Maybe It Was Because I No Longer Had A Boyfriend Or Fiance. I Suddenly Recognized That There Was Safety In Having Someone, As Well As A Lack Of Pressure To Shine. Ironically, This Had Cultivated A Certain Free-spiritedness That Had, In Turn, Allowed Me To Be The Life Of The Party And Hoard The Affection Of Additional Men....but That Had All Changed. I Didn't Have A Boyfriend, A Perfect Figure, Or Alcohol-induced Outrageousness To Fall Back On.

Love As A Verb. Love As A Commitment.

And Like A Favorite Old Movie, Sometimes The Sameness In A Friend Is What You Like The Most About Her.

It Always Takes Two. For Relationships To Work, For Them To Break Apart, For Them To Be Fixed.

I Do Not Expect To Get What I Want, So I Don't. And I Don't Even Try.