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I told him I'd never wanted to have my own children, and he said that while he had vacillated on it, he did not want to be an "old dad," a territory he felt he was approaching...
I alternated between understanding how demanding his schedule was and feeling like I wasn't a priority.. My friends, family, therapist, and even my yoga instructor all told me the same thing: he would make time to see me if he really wanted to...
I obsessed over the situation, but as more time passed, I shifted from wondering what I had done to feeling deceived by this man I thought I knew..
And then he sent me a long text saying I had changed his life and made him believe in love again, but that he couldn't ask me to move to Canada when he couldn't give me what I deserved..
I spent that entire evening curled up in bed with a box of tissues thinking about the Canadian, cursing him for unearthing something in me I could not unknow and leaving me alone to sort all the feelings and emotions that came with it...
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