Met up with her again last night on our usual Thursday evening schedule. Work first, as always, then a quick beer after. No dinner this time. Both of us had early starts this morning. At some point last night, I asked whether she has a boyfriend. It felt like a reasonable thing to finally put out there before suggesting a date or making any romantic advances. She does. Since high school, apparently. Close to ten years already, I guess, and by that time I was already around 40. Makes me feel old. He’s an engineer working on a construction project somewhere outside CM. They see each other a couple of times a month. She didn’t say much beyond that, just that things have felt different with him lately, not in a positive way, and that she’s been doing a lot of thinking. She mentioned something about trust without going into detail. I didn’t push. I just listened. She didn’t ask for my opinion, and I didn’t offer one. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot since.
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