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Smoke signals and other forms of communication

I really like technology. In a lot of ways it makes my job and my daily life easier. It seems that most of the focus of technology these days is towards better communication.

"There's this girl" I used to date who keeps in contact with me by text messaging my phone. Every once in a while she'll message me and I'll respond as positively as I can. Whenever I try and ask about how her life is going I'll get responses like:

  • "I've been really busy"
  • "There's a lot going on"
  • "It's a long story"
  • "You don't want to know"
  • "My life has been crazy"
  • etc.
It drives me crazy. I think in a lot of ways she brings this drama on herself -- at least the part of it that is real. A lot of it is also 'oh, poor pitiful me' kind of stuff. I get my usual response from her and then wait a month or so before she messages me again.

'DubDub' and I dated about 3 years and I never met her family. I barely met her kids. I was over at her house less than 6 times in those three years... we'd generally hang out at my place -- and by hang out I mean: have sex. That's really all we did. Sometimes we'd go out to eat (after sex) but we never once saw a movie in the theater together. Isn't that strange?

I got 'stood up' more times than I care to remember and she didn't like to celebrate Valentines Day (trauma-and-drama from a previous relationship). Most people who knew her say I'm better off but I don't know. As previously noted, I could really use a woman's touch. And the sex was good with 'DubDub'... but I guess that's all it was.

Hmmm... how sad.

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