Amber dear, you're still slyly looking at this thread.
Please examine this photograph; you snapped it yourself and posted it yourself, about the time your ex-boyfriend was showing signs of unhappiness being with you.
Now Amber dear, you were in a "relationship" with this guy for
ten years, which was plenty of time to drag him to the altar. If you'd made it legal, you'd have him by the balls right now, entitled to all he has.
But no....."real love doesn't need a piece of paper."
Yeah, right. Being a male, I know how we are. You should've made it legal, Amber dear, and you had plenty of time to do that, and if you'd only done that, you'd be in clover right now, instead of lost on the streets of a strange city. Whether Dreamboat Dave wanted to or not, he'd have to cater to your every whim.
But no....."real love doesn't need a piece of paper."
That was probably the biggest damned mistake you ever made in your life Amber dear, trusting a guy to "love" you without civil and legal recognition to back it up.
Okay now Amber dear, look at the expression on Dreamboat Dave's face.
Remember, when that photograph was taken, he was looking right at you.
And remember, franksolich is deaf, having to depend nearly wholly upon interpretation of body-language.
Body-language, unlike words that come from lips, doesn't lie.
What Dreamboat Dave's body-language betrays is mostly contempt, with a little bit of fear, for the person he's looking at. He's not being humanly grouchy or just out of sorts; that expression of disgust is intense.
This is the
real reason, Amber dear, you went back to Tucson; you entertain fantasies of getting back together again, and him taking care of you.
Give it up, Amber dear; it's not going to happen.
It's not the end of one's world, being rejected. In fact, it'd be highly unusual to run into anybody who's ever
not been rejected.
Rejection hurts, but time heals all.
If I had someone looking at me the same way Dreamboat Dave was looking at you that day, I'd take a deep breath, "hooooo-kay," and then move on.
Ask any psychiatrist, Amber dear; this is
good advice, the best advice possible for someone in your situation.