I Erased an Entire Relationship

It’s gone and I can’t get it back.

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You’re never too old to learn the strength of your spirit. To have it tested and to falter and fall and climb back up. To take one on the chin.

If I’ve learned one thing it’s that life always has one more punch left in her. She is relentless. She is quick. And she is indiscriminate.

I’ve had three men walk away from me in my life. I was kind of known for the pre-emptive strike in my early dating years, a move I learned much later in life looks a lot like self sabotage. The last time it happened, it was the first relationship after my first divorce.

It was absolutely going nowhere. It was passing time with someone while wandering down a dead end road. Still, it stung like hell when I got the Dear Jane email on a humid September evening while out of town at a conference in Nashville. I thought being dumped via email was about the most painful way to be left. Of course, keep in mind that technology has advanced since 2007.

This time, I found out I was dumped when I came back from dinner on a business trip to find I had been blocked on all social media by the man…