Comments on: Preachy keen

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:42:32 +0000

“Or Keebler elves shaving the inside of your eyelids while singing Richard Marx songs. In falsetto”

Haha. Great post.

By: brookem

brookem — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:00:02 +0000

well there you go again, hitting the nail right on the head. these posts are (one of) the reaons i love this here blog.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:00:44 +0000

Kris!

Do you know what you did just there? You totally called me out. That is exactly what I’m doing… All of that? Above? Yeah, hi, currently that’s me. (I saaaay I’m excited about the silence and the just me [especially in the new apartment!], but really I just lay in my bed and try to sleep and maybe try not to cry.)

But it’s part of the process. You say pr-ah-cess, I say pr-oh-cess. Let’s call the whole thing “Merlot.”

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:15:49 +0000

wow- just when I thought I was done crying

guess not

By: The Glamorous Life

The Glamorous Life — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:33:38 +0000

Um, why did this post make me WANT to be single again? To have a break up can be truely thrilling actually. You can allow yourself to think all those rotten things about the boy you once loved…you can be angry and sad and you are ALLOWED to what you want. Heck your breakup things to keep you busy sound like heaven to me right now!

By: Ryane

Ryane — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:06:22 +0000

Kris, I don’t know how you do it, but again you’ve managed to capture exactly what it feels like to be that woman, in that position, who is soo terribly afraid to be alone with her thoughts. I want to print this post and tape it to my vanity mirror for my next time. And that is not to say that I am expecting my next time to necessarily implode and leave me sad, blue or alone, but that there will be a next time, and it will be alright.

By: TrappedInColorado

TrappedInColorado — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:45:01 +0000

Wait! You took up bocce ball?!
If there was a way to get you a bottle of wine I have in my rack to you without divulging your address I would so do it. Sure it is very expensive but it will go very well with your cheese spray. Have the eye scrapping elves join you. I am many a lady’s best male friend. I have this curse where I listen and do not try to solve their problems. Non judgemental. I think we would like each other like that.

Peace

By: Jurgen Nation

Jurgen Nation — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:38:47 +0000

I have nothing to say except for the fact that you have lovely ORBS.

Meh.

By: MereCat

MereCat — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:53:56 +0000

Gawd I feel every word of that post.

By: m

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:16:33 +0000

so are you saying that you almost have to re-learn being comfortable alone after having grown accustomed to being part of a couple? (obviously assuming you were cool with being alone in the first place, which i always was) if so, that’s interesting. and it makes a ton of sense. because that lonely feeling post-break-up is oh, so unique.

if not, what do you mean?

By: wildbillthePirate

wildbillthePirate — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:02:49 +0000

O.K., so I admit that while I regularly shower and change underwear, I have worn pairs of socks longer than a day. Especially when I’m working back-to-back double shifts (sleep is infinitely more important) Does this Really qualify me as a schlep? I think that men (on the whole-NOT the womanizers) are even less able to cope with a break/breakup than women

An Attractive woman gets So much more interest then an Attractive man that Women have a much greater advantage in moving on then men do.

Now can I get out of the man-pit?

By: kitkat

kitkat — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:39:35 +0000

You’re not missing anything about roller coasters.

Reading posts like this, I suspect that I’ve never loved anyone as much as other people do because I’ve never been this upset by rejection. This haunts me a lot more than any sense of rejection I’ve felt in the past.

By: KB

KB — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:28:13 +0000

Yeah, well, to end it, mine told me that he doesn’t care about me and never did.

I have to say, that makes it easier to think that he’s a shithead. But, it doesn’t make the silence here any less oppressive.

By: stepping over the ju

stepping over the ju — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:25:28 +0000

YUP. That’s me. “no contact” has saved me. I finally learned my lesson. “contact” meant going back into an unhealthy situation (we break up once FOR A REASON, PEOPLE!) with regrets in going back into it. Of course, to each his/her own.

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:43:31 +0000

So well put! And so true!

I bought a house to get away from the memories of having someone to be home with.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:32:48 +0000

I hear you! This is a great post!

By: sizzle

sizzle — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:15:59 +0000

“Life only begins again when you do.”

SO TRUE.

By: elise

elise — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:54:29 +0000

I am bookmarking this one.

By: freckledk

freckledk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:41:56 +0000

In retrospect, breaks are more painful than breakups. That hope, it’s a real killer. But no one really wants to hear that at the time (myself included).

Thank Jehovah for drinking buddies…and random, semi-kissable young men. They may not cure what ails you, but they temporarily help you in forgetting your illness.

By: t2ed

t2ed — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:39:32 +0000

Can Future Kris send me the lotto numbers?

Oh, and a beer as big as my head too, please.

By: Paige Jennifer

Paige Jennifer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:20:40 +0000

Yup. And once you get there (I’m still en route), you know you can overcome anything.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:40:33 +0000

Amen sistah. Regarding sitting silently with yourself, if you’re so inclined, hope you’ll visit me. : )

By: Food Rockz Man

Food Rockz Man — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:14:31 +0000

I promise I’ll go on a roller coaster with you and hold your hand and you’ll enjoy it . . . if you’ll let me out of your man pit.

By: Amyella

Amyella — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:49:30 +0000

Yeah, I’m still waiting for the “be able to sit alone with myself” moment.

In the meantime, there sure is an endless supply of beer out there!

And Dean Koontz books.