The Six Exes
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So I was talking about the Twilight-Zone moment I had lately when six ex-boyfriends got in touch - over quite a short space of time. Some were way out of the box, so I thought I'd give you a run-down.
Number one was Andrew - who I dated in high school and hadn't seen for 17 years. My first serious BF and he's the one I talk about in my previous article Link. He's scary-smart and I always felt vaguely intimidated by him. His GF before me was a year older than us, so he had a bit of a reputation with the ladies, if you know what I mean.
Then Kevin said he'd be coming to Sydney over Christmas, and would like to catch up. These days he lives in beautiful Broome in Western Australia, thousands of kilometres away. We lived together abut 10 years ago and his GF since then has always been mad jealous of the fact that we're still friends. As we were for about 2 years before we started dating! But she's in Germany with her family at the moment, so he came over for dinner, enjoyed the balcony, spent the night in the spare room. Yes, I have a wonderful husband who understands that friendship can transcend the boundaries of a relationship. His ex is also a good friend to both of us and visits with her new partner regularly.
After that Bill told me he and his wife would be here for Brendan's bone marrow transplant - which I've also written about. Link Actually that's kind of fallen through because the match they had wasn't as good as they'd hoped but it will happen soon I'm sure.
Then Patrick rang up. He's a mad Scot I had a fling with when I travelled to Europe in '92 who always calls late at night when he's had a few too many. Fortunately as I live on the other side of the world I get to talk to him at a reasonable hour of the afternoon and am frequently amused by his babbling. But at one stage he got so stalker-like I had to get tough with him and threaten legal action! At least this time he's called just the once.
Tim tracked me down at work and fortunately I wasn't there - I had two days off - and Cathy who was working was smart enough not to give him my cell phone number. She gave me his number - which I promptly lost. He's the creep I was involved with just before Mark and I became involved, who seemed nice at the outset but turned into a gibbering drug-addled bipolar weirdo, who of course I tried to "save". Mother Theresa syndrome, anyone?
And finally Dominic emailed me out of the blue, which was lovely. We'd dated only briefly before deciding we were wrong for each other, but stayed friends for ages. Then he got married and his Brazilian bride apparently decided I was persona non grata. He says that's all changed, but he hasn't been in touch since I responded to that note, so we'll see.
Anyhoo - that's the series of events, which took about 8 weeks total. I'm still looking over my shoulder for more to pop up...
(Cue the Twilight Zone theme music)
Number one was Andrew - who I dated in high school and hadn't seen for 17 years. My first serious BF and he's the one I talk about in my previous article Link. He's scary-smart and I always felt vaguely intimidated by him. His GF before me was a year older than us, so he had a bit of a reputation with the ladies, if you know what I mean.
Then Kevin said he'd be coming to Sydney over Christmas, and would like to catch up. These days he lives in beautiful Broome in Western Australia, thousands of kilometres away. We lived together abut 10 years ago and his GF since then has always been mad jealous of the fact that we're still friends. As we were for about 2 years before we started dating! But she's in Germany with her family at the moment, so he came over for dinner, enjoyed the balcony, spent the night in the spare room. Yes, I have a wonderful husband who understands that friendship can transcend the boundaries of a relationship. His ex is also a good friend to both of us and visits with her new partner regularly.
After that Bill told me he and his wife would be here for Brendan's bone marrow transplant - which I've also written about. Link Actually that's kind of fallen through because the match they had wasn't as good as they'd hoped but it will happen soon I'm sure.
Then Patrick rang up. He's a mad Scot I had a fling with when I travelled to Europe in '92 who always calls late at night when he's had a few too many. Fortunately as I live on the other side of the world I get to talk to him at a reasonable hour of the afternoon and am frequently amused by his babbling. But at one stage he got so stalker-like I had to get tough with him and threaten legal action! At least this time he's called just the once.
Tim tracked me down at work and fortunately I wasn't there - I had two days off - and Cathy who was working was smart enough not to give him my cell phone number. She gave me his number - which I promptly lost. He's the creep I was involved with just before Mark and I became involved, who seemed nice at the outset but turned into a gibbering drug-addled bipolar weirdo, who of course I tried to "save". Mother Theresa syndrome, anyone?
And finally Dominic emailed me out of the blue, which was lovely. We'd dated only briefly before deciding we were wrong for each other, but stayed friends for ages. Then he got married and his Brazilian bride apparently decided I was persona non grata. He says that's all changed, but he hasn't been in touch since I responded to that note, so we'll see.
Anyhoo - that's the series of events, which took about 8 weeks total. I'm still looking over my shoulder for more to pop up...
(Cue the Twilight Zone theme music)
