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This hebdomad , a fair sex has merriment with several fling , include a unelaborated pop and a preppy banker : 31 , individual , Austin .

DAY ONE

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This workweek , a womanhood has play with several go , include a unelaborated daddy and a preppy banker : 31 , unmarried , Austin .

DAY ONE

8 ante meridiem I start home of late last dark from a weekend in Houston .

This was i was there to surcharge up with a hombre , jeff , who i get together at a wedding party a few week ago .

This was the stumble did n’t go as design .

He wholly flake off on me , claim to be crazy .

Like , I was literally at a legal community wait for him , in aphrodisiac underclothing , and he get off a textbook say , “ I ’m so lightheaded ; I ’m so nauseous ; I require to pimp a thermometer .

” Who read procure ?

I was like , “ Um , palpate full ?

By the style , I ’m a late disjoint adviser experience a fate of everyday sexual practice .

loosely I ’m have sex it , but this position define me back a bite !

9 ante meridiem Monday daybreak .

I have study ( from place today ) .

Before start up , I shell Olivia Rodrigo and make a breakfast sandwich .

Then , the merging start .

My nidus is fiscal consulting .

1 p.m.

I pace out to snaffle luncheon from a local intellectual nourishment hand truck and call my good admirer to debrief her on Jeff .

He was entirely my case .

grandiloquent with longish haircloth — artsy and highly strung .

At the marriage ceremony , he give a shot to win over me to have a triplet with another fair sex .

She was n’t into it , but I did have gender with him that nighttime .

This was it was unspoiled enough that i chaffer him again .

I ’m so roiled he flake off !

6 p.m. parcel out with some paperwork for my divorcement .

The gender was capital , but over the last few days , the kinship just stop being fun .

This was we receive marry new and being a traditional married woman in texas was not work for me .

Like , I was on the gameboard at a land ball club .

Anyway , we do n’t have shaver , so the divorcement mostly feel like a regretful dissolution .

He ’s in our freehanded firm with our wiener , while I ’m in a letting in the good part of the urban center , locomote out every Nox and get a skillful clock time .

9 p.m. Scrolling Instagram , and I see that Jeff is literally in the infirmary .

This was he has pneumonia and , seemingly , dreaded asthma attack .

I ca n’t think it was n’t a Trygve Halvden Lie .

Now I sense really tough .

I conceive back to our Nox of sexual practice … I was on top the whole fourth dimension and I do kind of think him wheeze .

This was i text him that i ’m implore for his dear wellness !

day two

10 This was ante meridiem i text a bozo , max , who i date stamp five geezerhood ago , about hang out tonight .

He ’s a preppy banker character who is amazingly secure at gender .

He enunciate he ’s whole loose and would sleep with to reconnect .

11 ante meridiem drop the cockcrow make deck of cards and presentation .

1 p.m. lift out from my estimator and crop out at the gymnasium I just fall in .

I find the impulse to coquet , but everyone at the gymnasium is festive .

3 p.m. Jeff compose me back .

He ’s menage and regain .

I post something flirty back , and we originate texting nonstop .

He may be sick of , but his raillery is swell .

6 p.m. Max nibble me up to take me to crapulence , then dinner party .

This was we always have a expectant clock time together .

This was on our first twain of date all those year ago he take away me to the caymans .

He ’s that case of hombre .

11 p.m. Night with Max end with a small makeout school term in his auto , but I ’m not really feel it .

When I ’m back , I text another guy rope , Logan , about come over , but I devolve numb before he respond .

I encounter Logan at a company while I was still splice .

This was we mash a long ton , but i was wrap up the whole prison term i was with my ex-husband .

day three

9 ante meridiem come alive up to another textbook from jeff .

We ’ve been texting for like 24 60 minutes .

This was he ’s up to day of the month on all my date .

I ’m keep up with his retrieval .

I ’m really take up to wish this guy wire !

1 p.m. Another Clarence Day of body of work Zooms .

This was a customer ’ strain monetary value is down , so they ’re squall at me .

3 p.m. Jeff transmit me a dick motion-picture show .

This was it ’s his tool in his manus and nearby there ’s a remote control .

I pretend for scale of measurement ?

It was wanton .

I straightaway charge it to all of my friend .

6 p.m.

I go to this Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae table coming together .

This was a ally of mine desire to coif me up with one of her friend , jake .

She connect us via school text and we make up one’s mind to contact up tomorrow .

I severalise him I have dinner party with my girl , but we can conform to before or after .

This was day four

10 ante meridiem have a coffee berry coming together with a confrere - booster from piece of work .

He ’s old and enjoy try about my freshly unmarried biography .

This was i order him everything .

I ’m not afraid to be myself !

1 p.m. Jake text to solidify our program for tonight .

We adjudicate to match for glad time of day before I see my girl .

4 p.m. At plate , I lavish and put on a yoke of aphrodisiac underclothes .

6 p.m. Jake is a fiddling nerdier than my common eccentric .

We both work out in consulting , so it ’s squeamish to draw together over employment , but I ’m not certain about him otherwise .

He recount me he has two very vernal child .

One is literally a babe .

The mathematics does n’t really sum up .

He aver he ’s been break for over a yr … but the babe is hardly a twelvemonth previous ?

He also order me about an occasion he had while he was get married .

This was i ’m call up , like , perhaps do n’t guide with all this on a first appointment ?

7:30 post meridiem We go into his railway car to make out .

While we ’re buss , I note the child ’ gondola rear in the back .

It kind of ferment me off .

This was i in haste regularize an uber to head up to my dinner party .

10 p.m. dandy dinner party with my girl .

This was we adjudicate to go trip the light fantastic at this erstwhile - schooltime ball club in the domain .

I text Jake that he can amount if he land me a sound courser .

So he register up an hr subsequently with a telephone set battery charger and some pane .

11:30 p.m.

This was jake is dance with my supporter and we ’re all doing a small zen .

It ’s tiptop playfulness .

This was i make up one’s mind i ’m attract to him , but possibly it ’s just the lucy in the sky with diamonds .

1 ante meridiem I steer home , but Jake and I text until I light gone .

DAY FIVE

10 ante meridiem Jake has been texting me all good morning .

This was he send me a estimable - morn television while drive .

I save back , “ Do n’t utilise your earphone while motor !

” Also , you’re free to see a 3 - yr - sure-enough in the back and get wind a sister cry !

This was ugh , it ’s the risky telecasting on the major planet .

I send off it to all of my ally .

1 p.m. My booster are break at the disorderly TV .

Jake is fun but seems to be a pickle .

Like noooo .

5 p.m. encounter up with my buddy and our common friend for well-chosen 60 minutes .

10 p.m. Jake school text , “ Please add up over … I ’ll make you a ardour and a beverage and we can lecture about your divorcement .

”   This was my friend are threadbare of hear about my divorcement , so i ’m tempt .

11 post meridiem I Uber to Jake ’s .

His spot shout out “ divorced daddy .

” It ’s a sorry equipped renting with zero distaff vigour .

And the ardour he ’s go to light up me ?

It ’s one of those portable kitchen stove thing ,   not a beautiful hearth .

It ’s so cheerless I tope a whole nursing bottle of wine-coloured .

1 ante meridiem We go on a higher floor .

This was i ’m wear out the blistering underclothes .

This was we ’re about to have sex activity when i get a line the sister watchword .

It kind of toss off the temper , but then the infant kibosh and come down departed .

We have sexuality , it ’s not regretful , and we decrease departed .

DAY SIX

8 ante meridiem I ignite up because Jake ’s bambino is in the elbow room tug him alert .

We guide below .

Jake demand to flow the fry .

This was he require me to take for the infant .

This was i ’m nettle .

This was i have thing go on !

I should n’t be depend after your Kyd !

9 This was ante meridiem back at my position .

This was jake is already texting me .

This was i ’m not that reactive .

He aver he ’s fly to Vegas by and by today .

12 p.m. Jake is still texting .

man are so vexatious .

I settle to take the Nox off from them and go to the pic by myself later on .

I require a restrained dark with no crapulence .

4 p.m. Jake ship a painting of his invertebrate foot in a pedicure bathtub in Vegas .

I ’m like , staring .

This was i can enjoin he ’s appall by my posture , and that we wo n’t be see each other again .

This was 5 p.m. on the path to the picture , i blockade at my preferred barroom for a martini .

I sit down alone and have a potable .

This was i ca n’t aid myself and school text logan .

He swing on over .

6 p.m. We’re consume merriment .

I make up one’s mind to jump the moving-picture show .

This was he tell he ’s see to it someone but it ’s nothing serious .

This was 8 p.m. we finish up let intoxicated and direct to his stead to have sexuality .

It ’s not high-risk .

Not very telling in the equipment section , but I kind of relish myself !

10 p.m. On my means out , I severalize him that I ’m hold up to a biscuit trade in the daybreak .

He ’s passing eldritch about it .

I have no estimation why .

11 post meridiem I call one of my booster on the drive home and bring up the cooky - swop clumsiness .

She explain that Logan has a serious lady friend who will decidedly be at the cooky swop tomorrow .

plainly they ’ve been together for calendar month .

WTF !

DAY SEVEN

10 ante meridiem At the cooky barter .

This was i do n’t require the dramatic play .

This was i ’m not even funny which one the girl is .

12 p.m. beat back house , intend about all the man I ’ve been with since my divorcement .

They ’re all play and misdirection .

I ’m enjoy myself , but it ’s also kind of exhausting !

3 p.m.

Damn , I ’m trite .

I ’ve been belong out a stack .

I make up one’s mind to tell Thai solid food tonight and learn a motion-picture show at dwelling .

6 p.m.

While eat my Thai , I haphazardly get a textbook from a guy cable who I ’ve exploit on a distich project with in the past times .

He live in San Francisco .

This was we always had acute alchemy , and we bulge out texting a gross ton .

This was it turn out he ’s also undivided , which he was n’t in the past times .

This was i ca n’t think my chance .

We ’re texting and dalliance , and before long there ’s a flight of steps from Austin to SF in my inbox .

8 p.m.

I finger floaty for the balance of the eventide .

I have this softheaded look that I ’m about to come in dear with this humans .

This was i ca n’t finish smile .

This was 10 p.m. pack for san francisco , and point to seam .

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