{"id":9307,"date":"2023-04-13T12:41:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2023-04-15T19:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:02:35","slug":"currently-im-handling-this-as-hes-keeping-his-promise-but-well-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2023\/04\/13\/currently-im-handling-this-as-hes-keeping-his-promise-but-well-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently, I&#8217;m handling this, as he&#8217;s keeping his promise. But we&#8217;ll see."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was pretty good. Even though we&#8217;re not &#8216;a thing&#8217; anymore.. it still feels we are. And maybe I was wrong for fearing the repercussions of this when it comes to his<br \/>\nfriends. Because after all, they really don&#8217;t need to know we&#8217;re just really close friends. As long as I don&#8217;t make a big deal about it, everything will be OK.<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t need to worry either that he&#8217;ll find another. He&#8217;ll decline them all. Though not<br \/>\nto &#8216;protect&#8217; me, but to protect himself from harming anyone. I&#8217;m still free, if I wanted to, to look for another. But, again, I don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s worth it. And that&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> a bad thing. Gives me time to learn from this, to not go for the first cute face I see and feel they&#8217;re boyfriend material. Aka, learn from what Atherian said about his experiences: take it slow. Don&#8217;t rush into it. Don&#8217;t feel desperate for love. But again, I still got Jero as a friend.<br \/>\nBefore (aka the first time I broke up), I never gave him a chance to prove to me &#8216;nothing will change&#8217;. This time I am. And also back then, Jero had no idea how I truly felt about him: the true, undying love I feel for him. This is why he is able to fully promise, he will never leave me.. that we don&#8217;t have to be a thing to still feel the same love.<br \/>\nAnd as I said, last night he definitely proved it. I hope he&#8217;ll continue to prove it, even standing infront of me if I feel I&#8217;m being silently judged (by the ones he hangs out with) for being single.<br \/>\nBut as you know (lord forbid) the unthinkable could happen at any time, where he would just stop coming on for days, weeks.. months. Even years. I still remember him asking me the night before, how I would react if that ever happened. And I told him, I would be<br \/>\nsad. I would be upset.<br \/>\n&#8230;But I would <strong>never<\/strong> end my life over it. And I promised him I wouldn&#8217;t. For my love for him is very deep, I wouldn&#8217;t be the kind of person that couldn&#8217;t live without him. He would never want me to do that. He would want me to move on. And that&#8217;s exactly what I would do if that ever happens, for I have good friends that&#8217;ll do whatever&#8217;s possible to help me cope with the loss. I know they would. They care for me so much. They wouldn&#8217;t want to see me sad. I would find a way to remember him, and grieve for him.<br \/>\n*I start to feel sad, then you hear the sound of a record skip and Jero blowing all of those thoughts away with a giant fan, and giving me a big hug and kiss*.. heh. \ud83e\udd70\ud83d\ude0c He&#8217;s still here. He&#8217;s still alive. And as long as he&#8217;s alive, he will always love me. \ud83d\ude0a I believe him. And that&#8217;s all I really ask. We don&#8217;t have to be more than just friends, as long as he keeps his promise.<\/p>\n<p>I, well.. always pictured the &#8216;boyfriend tag&#8217; to &#8220;protect my property&#8221; from others who would do him harm. And I got that from my RPing, of the way nature works. You find a partner, and you make sure they don&#8217;t mess around with others. But this was also a bad thing when your partner isn&#8217;t OK with being &#8216;controlled&#8217; by you. They want to have fun with others. So what can you do? Well, you either feel this isn&#8217;t going to work out, <em>or<\/em> you agree to make it into an open partnership.<br \/>\nExcept this <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">also<\/span><\/strong> has its drawbacks, in the form of your partner not really acting like a partner.. but a slut to many. That, and if your partnership is a virtual, distant one, your parter might not feel, or doesn&#8217;t know how to tell you, what&#8217;s happening in their life.<br \/>\n..And that&#8217;s where things fall apart, aka the recent end of my partnership. Yet I refuse to call it a &#8216;breakup&#8217;.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s the really funny thing. More like extremely shocking, but I pretty sure there&#8217;s a lot more to this than what I was told. So I saw Orion on and decided to join him, who was with Blender. I waited my time as they were with others. When Everyone but them left, I asked them &#8220;so what&#8217;s been keeping your relationship alive?&#8221;<br \/>\nOrion looked at me and spoke one word: &#8220;communication&#8221;. Immediately, red flags showed up in my mind. I looked at Blender then back at Orion and&#8230; well, I really wanted to<br \/>\nask &#8220;really? But Blender.. isn&#8217;t known for excelling at communication&#8221;, but I wanted to be respectful and <em>not<\/em> cause unnecessary drama. And I said in its place: &#8220;that&#8217;s great. I&#8217;m glad you two are happy&#8221;. Just to show I&#8217;m being supportive and, hoping I could get Blender alone one day and him telling me what&#8217;s really keeping them afloat.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m pretty sure I already know the answer: Orion&#8217;s patience. <em>*sighs*<\/em> He&#8217;s more patient than I am. ..Which is why I&#8217;m still surprised Jero was OK with it when we were dating, and it&#8217;s one of the ways I feel &#8216;he tolerates me for who I am&#8217;&#8230; as long as I don&#8217;t constantly bug him about a PC problem that he swears it&#8217;s fine.<br \/>\nOrion tolerates Blender. He doesn&#8217;t mind the lack of communication, and I&#8217;m happy<br \/>\nfor Blender in regards to that. He deserves to be loved. But I can almost hear Jero telling me that I also deserve to be loved.. why do I not feel like that right now? Oh yeah. I made myself depressed again that it couldn&#8217;t had been me in Orion&#8217;s shoes, being the one that was willing to tolerate. &#8230;Couldn&#8217;t even tolerate Mibit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least, I&#8217;m at a good place now. A place where I don&#8217;t &#8216;have to worry&#8217; about finding<br \/>\nanother, and having to make myself feel ashamed when they ask about &#8216;my job&#8217; and stuff.<br \/>\nJero is there to fill up that hole in my heart that he&#8230; caused. And my heart appreciates him mending it back up.<br \/>\nBut I look into the near future, where I&#8217;ve reminded myself that he&#8217;s still trying to find a job, and knowing I won&#8217;t be able to see him as much because of those long hours. It honestly would be no different than when we were dating.. including having to be<br \/>\npatient.<br \/>\nThe only thing that&#8217;s different is he won&#8217;t have to fear me saying &#8220;you&#8217;re not being communicative&#8221;. He&#8217;s literally just like my other close friends now. And I keep telling myself this.. as much as I really <em>don&#8217;t want to<\/em>. But, there is always other games if I don&#8217;t feel like coming on VRChat for weeks, or even months while waiting for him to get on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was pretty good. Even though we&#8217;re not &#8216;a thing&#8217; anymore.. it still feels we are. And maybe I was wrong for fearing the repercussions of this when it comes to his friends. Because after all, they really don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2023\/04\/13\/currently-im-handling-this-as-hes-keeping-his-promise-but-well-see\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}