His broad shoulders and bright T-shirt were immediately familiar.
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During a neighborhood ‘block party,’ welcoming the unofficial start of summer, I spotted Matt from a distance, sipping a smoothie and swaying to live music. Recently, for the first time in years, I saw Matt, by surprise, in-person. So to compare present relationships to past, to hold onto less fully-formed versions of ourselves, perhaps as a means to justify immature behavior or old habits, is not only dangerous but also damaging, to present partners and ourselves. We’re far from mature adults, but we’re getting there. For us, love means compromise, informed support, and advice in the dark times, as well as the light-hearted, childish adventures. We strive for balanced partnership and long-passed the honeymoon phase. We have jobs, rent and consequential deadlines beyond late homework. I can’t expect him to jump at my every need, or soliloquize our romance, nor can he. With Ian I am not that googly-eyed, self-centered sixteen-year-old. While we meant it, we said “I love you” ad nauseam, as if playing out a scripted high-school romance-our relationship, in retrospect, more performative than deep. Matt treated me like a princess, and allowed me to get whatever I wanted. Things were simpler when Matt and I dated our biggest concern was which Starbucks to go to or if I’d finish my homework in time to make a movie. Perhaps scarier is the reality that I too have moved on-that Matt is more a ghost than a participant in my present, and his absence requires I let go, not only of our relationship, but also of myself with him. Matt is more a ghost than a participant in my present, and his absence requires I let go, not only of our relationship, but myself with him. For years, I feared the reality that after such an intimate connection, Matt truly moved on and feels nothing beyond fond memories for me. While snapping Matt was as normal as snapping anyone else, the jolt of adrenaline I felt each time his name popped up proved our communication fed a deep-rooted insecurity. I had even invited him to my going away party via snap message, and though he replied, he didn’t come.Īs I tried to materialize our supposedly budding friendship, he kept his limits.
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I realized Matt rarely started our serial snaps, and often didn’t reply to my more personal reach-outs. Through social media, I developed a false sense of intimacy with Matt that, in truth, proved as transient as our five-second snaps. This immature behavior demanded I snap back to reality. Anxious about these dreams, but unwilling to discuss them with Ian, I’d pick fights, projecting the frustration I thought he’d feel if he found out. Yes, it’s normal to have some sex dreams about your exes, but the frequency of these dreams, coupled with the regularity of our snapping illuminated a seriously unsettling cause and effect. Minutes later, I’d feel disgusted and ashamed. First, there were love dreams his arms wrapped around me as I leaned against him, sitting in a grassy field.īut love dreams quickly became sex dreams, and I’d wake up exhausted, confused and turned on.
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For a full week, I dreamt about him every night. Gradually, he took on more central roles. He’d be at a party I attended or in a store when I walked in. However, my subconscious chose a different route.Īt first Matt randomly appeared in my dreams.
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Our snap exchanges remained completely PG, even fizzling off for a few weeks. Our secret engagements were inconsequential or so I thought.Īfter a few months of snapping, things escalated. It was too public a gesture.īut Snapchat was free-game, an open testing ground for communication I wasn’t sure I should, or wanted to be having. I wouldn’t even “Like” Facebook photos of his recent trip. Sending Matt an iMessage felt too permanent or forward. When my friends saw a snap from Matt come through, they’d raise their brows, but couldn’t ask to read our exchange it didn’t exist. Yet however “advanced” our snap “texting” became, the fleeting nature of Snapchat was crucial to our connection-unlike iMessage there was no record of our interaction, which is what I wanted. We’d use Snapchat’s “messaging” feature, engaging in what felt like real conversation. I’d snap a show I was into, and he’d send recommendations. But soon the snaps became more personalized.įirst it was a photo of his new kitten, and I’d reply reminiscing on my hate for his dad’s cat, who’d always creep behind my shoulders when we watched movies. They were depersonalized, I reminded myself - he’s letting me in as he does every “best friend” on his most recently snapped list. but soon they became much more personalized.Īt first, I’d see the snaps he sent me posted on his public “story” as well. At first, I’d see the snaps he sent me posted on his public “story”.