So I'll try to keep this short. HELP!
I'm in a rather uncomfortable situation at the moment, and am not sure how to deal with it. After three years together, I broke up with my girlfriend due to irreconcilable differences (or so i thought). My job requires me to be gone for months at a time, and it put a huge amount of stress on our relationship, and we werent seeing eye to eye on anything. We broke up in the midst of a huge argument, and didn't seak much for a couple of months. In the meantime, I struck up a very close friendship with on old mutual friend. Things were leaning towards a new relationship, because we both feel really strongly about each other, but the time wasn't right. (The present distance doesn't help, either.) After the breakup with the first girl, I took the geographical heartbreak cure and moved to another state and started back to school for another degree, and found out later that I left a great potential relationship with the second girl behind. I couldnt see the potential because of my confusion and grief over the first. Now I'm in a new place, and don't have many friends, because I'm naturally shy and reserved, and the culture is totally different. I feel like a sore toe in the midst of a crowd of thumbs. I can't find anyone I really relate to, even though I'm on the departmental softball team and have joined 2 new clubs. I've met a great girl, but I feel really awkward about the situation, because I'm still talking to the second girl, and have been talking to my ex a lot lately, and we're thinking of getting together next weekend. I need help figuring out how to break the ice at this new school, how to deal with the issues in these 3 relationships, and how to find some new firends. I'm tired of watching movies and drinking by myself on the weekends. Now for the kicker: I'm going back to work in May, and will be going even further away, and all of the contacts and relationships that I make here may end up being stopgap measures at best.
I know this is really long and convoluted, so sorry about that, but i'm at my wits' end here. Thanks, y'all.
