A Dating Curse Revival

I guess I've been single long enough that my old dating curses are kicking back into gear. Before my long term relationship with my ex, I had two major curses in the dating arena:
a) Guys I date have a tendency to part ways with me in order to get back together with their old flames.
b) Guys I date have a tendency to drop off the face of the earth for a period of time and then I either bump into them in a random place (ie: when I'm out running and looking sweaty and awful) or they just creep out of the woodwork with an email. Either way, they often act as if nothing awkward has happened and things are just fantastic.

I'm not so worried about Curse A (although that could be a curse that rears its ugly head with Seattle Crush) but Curse B has already come to fruition.

This week while I was vacationing in Florida, I got an email from EP. His brief email expressed "disappointment" that we hadn't talked in the last few weeks but if I still wanted us to "be a part of each other's lives" that I should feel free to contact him. Hmmmmmm, interesting. So you can only imagine the temptation to scrutinize this 4 line email down to his word choice to create some type of interpretation of his feelings and motivation to contact me. (Why do we, as women, feel so compelled to waste our energy in such ways?) Instead, I read it a few times...took a day to think about it...and then just wrote a simple email back and tried tactfully to put the ball back in his court. I'm not sure what I'm thinking after hitting send on that one. But I have to confess, he was a really good smoocher and I could benefit from a little smoochage. It must be from hearing my downstairs neighbor going at it (even during the day on a Friday; and YES, at first I thought it was the pigeons again) all the time.

And now for more on Curse A. Seattle Crush is going with me to Israel. (gasp!) I'm really excited -- he'll be fun to travel with. But trust me, I'm not letting myself fall into the "What does this MEAN?" tailspin -- we'll leave that to my mom. Just like my visit in November, we're just friends. And as Curse A has proven in the past, knowing my luck he'll have gotten back together with his ex-girlfriend by the time I see him in April. So note to self: no expectations.

Oh yeah, check out this book my friend told me about. Sounds like a good companion to this blog.