I sat my stuff down and headed upstairs to shower before going to bed. I was just pulling off my shirt when my phone rang. I checked the caller ID and it was Sara. Ugh, I did not really want to talk to her. Sara was a girl I’d been dating for the past two months. She was beautiful, sweet, loving, and we had a great time together. But things were getting too serious. We were getting to that point where I felt we needed to kind of start pulling away from her. When we first started dating, I’d told Sara that I was not looking for anything long term. She agreed that was fine, but I had a feeling along the way she’d become more attached. The last thing I wanted to do was hurt her, but I had a feeling it would be better not to lead her on. I had to set her straight.
“Hey,” I answered.
“Hey, how’s it going?”
“Good. I just got in from work,” I said.
“Oh, were you going to bed?” she asked.
“I was, yeah. But I can talk a minute.”
“Ok, how was work?”
“Great. Nothing major happening. How was your day?” I asked.
“My day yesterday?”
I laughed. I forgot it was eight in the morning. “Yeah.”
“Well, it wasn’t bad. Kyle kept trying to sabotage me during the meeting. I swear that guy has it in for me.”
“That sucks.”
“Yeah, well when you get up today, do you want to have some dinner? Maybe go out somewhere fun?”
I sighed. “I can’t.”
“Oh, ok,” she said. “Maybe we can do something else?”
That was her polite way of asking if she could come over. That sounded like fun, but I had to put my foot down and be firm.
“No, I don’t think it’s a good idea,” I said. “Listen, this is hard to say. We’ve become pretty close the past few months, closer than I had intended, and I just want you to know that I would never want to hurt you in any way.”
“You’re dumping me…” she whispered.
I could practically hear the tears in her voice. It broke my heart. I felt like a jerk, but I knew it would be harder later if I didn’t do this now. I just wasn’t built for a long-term relationship.
“This isn’t going to work,” I said. “You’re looking for something serious, and I can’t give that to you. I told you that from the start.”
“I know. I know… it’s my fault. I thought you had changed. I thought that what we had was special enough… I guess I was wrong.”
I groaned. This was harder than I thought it was going to be. “I’m sorry. We are just on two different pages. It’s best if we just let things go now. I’m so sorry if you thought this was going somewhere that it wasn’t.”
“Ok, well… you have a nice life,” she said. “Take care of yourself.”
“You do the same,” I replied.
I ended the call and went to take my shower. A part of me always wondered if it was a mistake to break up with a woman this great. It was fun, but I knew in my heart that having a long-term thing would just make me miserable. How long would it be before my misery made her crazy too?
Yeah, I was doing the right thing. I knew I was…
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