Current mood:	relaxed
Entry tags:	francine, girls

Francine & I are no longer dating
So, why? Because we just don't have the chemistry we both want.

We're still friends, and we're both doing pretty well. It was definitely the best breakup either of us have ever had. We talked on the phone (and then on Skype when her cell phone died). Laughing, and crying together over the phone. The best part was when we were acknowledging each other different for things.

Within the context of Landmark Education, "acknowledging" someone actually means more than normal. So it was really touching and fun to get to acknowledge her, and to be acknowledged.

And the training that both of us have gotten at Landmark helped make that easy/gentle breakup possible. Every time one of us would get on it, we could realize that we were feeling like "I'm a jerk for breaking up with her", and that wasn't actually true. And so we could let it go, and not be controlled by that feeling any longer.

So, the relationship was [april 22 - october 9] = about 25 weeks, nearly 6 months.

Oh, and I'll be hanging out with her when I come down for Thanksgiving, so have no fear about inviting both of us to events.