ExposedNYC

Yep, it’s official, my Boy Toy has been recalled.

Just a few weeks ago I was trying to define what I wanted from our relationship, and deal with him asking me to meet his parents on my next trip home. I didn’t worry much when our communication became less frequent as the holidays approached, because everyone is busy. I even bought him a silly Christmas gift, after wavering back and forth, and had it shipped to my parent’s house for when I arrived home.

All of a sudden, it was the day after Christmas and I was standing at baggage claim waiting for my suitcases to be spat out onto the moving carousel when he called. I answered immediately, chatted briefly about Christmas, and asked what he was doing the following evening. That’s when the silence on the other end of the phone line told me all I needed to know.

“Well…..” he began, “there’s something I have to tell you.”

Then he launched into the news that he had been seeing someone else, that this had nothing to do with me, that if we lived in the same town things would definitely be different, and that as much as he wanted to see me this week that probably wasn’t a good idea.

Being completely unprepared for this news, my first instincts responded by trying to ease his discomfort. I told him I wasn’t upset, that I knew this could happen, and thanked him for being honest with me. Then I told him that I needed a minute to process what he had just told me, but may call him later on in the week if that was okay.

As I hung up the phone wave of emotions washed over my body. There was the sadness of losing someone I was really starting to like. There was confusion and anger about how and when he chose to tell me because I was now standing alone and upset in an airport. And finally, there was a smidge of relief at the time and freedom I would now have with my girlfriends to take my mind off of everything.

There is just one thing- does anyone know where I can ethically dispose of a Rage Against the Machine t-shirt?

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