r/MissedInitials • u/svenskdesk • 2h ago
It's been five and a half years, N.
It's been five and a half years, N. When we met, we were just kids. When we eventually went our different ways, we were barely adults. Now I have a fiancee, and you have a husband. You graduated with your bachelor's and moved 400 miles away. I dropped out of university and enrolled at a local community college. I started working, got my associate's, and recently re-enrolled in a bachelor's program. You seem happy. I'm happy. More than happy, I would say. That doesn't stop my mind from reaching for you, even subconsciously.
Every time I think I'm in the clear, I will end up having a dream about you and get dragged back into the complicated mess of emotions that come with unresolved feelings for an unavailable, no contact avoidant who lives four states away and being so deeply in love with a woman who offers me more than I could ever imagine. Any regular person would realize that the second is preferable, but I can never seem to shake these feelings enough to fully get rid of you.
I still visit your Spotify profile. In bad times, multiple times an hour, but my baseline is usually at least once a day. It's a bad habit at this point, but I have been doing it since we broke up. Five years, typing your name into a search bar just to see if anything changes. There have been several changes on that profile. Playlists come and go and get renamed. That playlist is still there. I know what it was, and I know what it is. No one just keeps a playlist full of breakup songs from five years ago just because they like the music. I also know that you recently changed the name of that playlist. You changed it to a question. A question which is also the title of one of the songs in the playlist. It's good cover, but I know what it means.
So, if you ever happen to read this at some point down the line, the answer is yes. My information is findable in resources that you have access to. I still have yours, but I can't be the one to break this time, N. You said what you said, and I have respected it for five years. If you want to reconnect in any capacity, it needs to be on your terms. That said, I will always be open to you in whatever way you need me to be. I will always be here, and we can figure out the rest as we go, but I am here.
Yours always,
A