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under RelationshipsOver the past few months, I have been in communications of a romantic nature with a gentleman from my past. We have derived no implications from this contact and have imposed no terms on one another. Considering our present geography, which would make a functional relationship untenable, this is for the best. It feels nice though to experience mutual positive feelings again for a male person, with no scorn or apathy present. So positive and mutual are these feelings, I have gone so far as to inform my mother of the existence of this renewed contact.
Discussing any previous boyfriend figure with my mom in a present-tense manner, though, can be touchy. Not only is the assumption that if something ended once, there was likely good reason for it, she also has a terrific detailed memory of every displeasing action every person I have dated took against me. Her memory did not spare the gentleman in question. Luckily, I am a media professional, with the skill to highlight the humanity of the most brutal of neighborhood cat killers. This male more-than-friend of mine is not exactly a cat killer, so the conversation was simple and easy, and the conclusion from my mother was that he sounds “very nice.”