Boyfriend No. 3

Meet Boyfriend No. 3. Weirdly, before we actually met in person I remember believing -- because I'd heard it on some drunken clown-car-like ride through the Arby's drive through for roast beef sandwiches at 2 in the morning -- that Jon did not like me. Was this ridiculous? Since we'd never met, probably. But it did make for interesting conversation the night we did finally meet, out for a drink with a mutual friend who was visiting Murray and thus on limited time. We were sharing him.

After we got past this dirty rumor, we hit it off pretty much immediately. Other than my decision to drink three ice cream-based alcoholic beverages that evening and thus be constipated AND hungover the next day, it was a great first meeting. We started seeing each other shortly after that, and our relationship took off in a fairly insane manner because we were both working at The Murray State News. Making things a little more Awkward Town, population two, was the fact that I was his boss.

Nonetheless, dating him was fun. Because of that great thing about time passing where you can gloss over the bad stuff, I pretty much remember just that -- having a LOT of fun. We drank beer, we ate (his) amazing hot wing pizza and we made impromptu trips to Kentucky Lake in the middle of the night. It was another shortlived affair, with us only being "official" from September through around the end of November of 2006. But again, enough from me. He can tell you the rest.


1. Do you remember your first impression of me?
dinner with chris hodes at applebees. I thought you were quite witty and quick with it too. Immediately we had quite a bit to talk about , probably still do. and obviously I found you attractive, can i say you have a nice rack on here?

2. Describe our relationship in three words.
Both gave tremendously.

3. Did we have "a song"? What was it?
I don't think we had a song. If we did I was never told it was "our song"

4. Why do you think our relationship ended?
We were strained by being in the same employment. We had our time apart but it wasn't enough. The immediate merging of our relationship and workplace was the downfall before it had a chance. I was a needy asshole who wanted more attention.

5. What was the best thing about our relationship?
Conversations about music, disagreements about music, good food, singing in cars. It was a good time for sure.

6. What was the most annoying thing I did within the context of our relationship?
Most annoying thing during our relationship: umm.. really i remember good things but if i think of something that severely annoyed me during the relationship ill tell you.
Thing i found out about after it was all over: the fake orgasms. but that was kind of funny too since it wasn't just me.

7. Did I hurt you?
Yes. But not in an "I'll never forgive you, you bitch." way. It was initially but thinking about the way our lives were situated and all the stresses on the relationship I can see now it was a right place wrong time kind of relationship.

8. Do you think I waited the appropriate amount of time to burp and/or fart in front of you?
Yeah. You have to be comfortable around somebody you're in a relationship with. I mean I have crohns disease, i was probably in the bathroom for a good third of our relationship. Bodily functions are something I have to be comfortable with.

9. Did you ever entertain the idea of marrying me?
Yes. It was definitely a thought. It may not have been 100% serious thought but I think everyone at some point and time looks at who they're with and examines whether or not they could be a suitable spouse. It came across my thoughts more than once though.

10. What did you learn from our relationship? How did the things you took with you influence your dating philosophy, if at all?
It matured my approach to a relationship quite a bit. I learned alot about myself from the standpoint of what I needed and what i wanted out of a girlfriend. I was completely infatuated with you to the point that I was greedy about your attention and tried to catch myself when I started to exert to much energy to impose myself into your daily life. I'm alot more honest with myself about relationships now.