Droplet vs Flame
I realized something with my most recent lover – I didn’t feel very poetic, or creative at all with him. I never noticed it until we were over but I always, ALWAYS write poetry every day when I’m in love and I didn’t with him. For my lover usually, but being in love? Normally opens me up creatively in general. I can make more products faster and get ideas at a pace it’s hard for my hands or lips to keep up with. You don’t understand how close this new guy was to being the love of my life. We were great friends before it ever came to romance, although I’d say the attraction was immediate and electric upon our initial encounter. By rights, of all the men I’ve ever loved, if we’d gotten our actual relationship underway he’d be closest to earning the title of soulmate. I’ve had that whole soulmate experience in about half the relationships I’ve been in, all the serious ones. There’s just some kind of thing I know how to do, in building this empathic two-way bridge between me and another person. When I’m truly in love, we sync up as a couple, mentally we have a link where we’re on the same wavelength and sometimes, full conversations without words. It goes beyond thinking the same thing at the same time to feeling each other’s emotions, to feeling a near-physical presence of the other person when they’re away. It took me a while to realize