The Downer

No wonder relationships feel like such a roller-coaster. You meet someone new. You really like them. You're on top of the world. You have sex, have your fun, can't wait to see them again. You call them the next day, or wait three days if you're following "the rules." You leave a voicemail and never hear back from them. Or worse, you do speak but you get the "blow off." Or worse, you do form a relationship, see each other for a few months, several months, or a few years. The relationship lasts with its ups and downs until one person suddenly finds someone else to love or simply doesn't want the relationship anymore for one reason or another. You're devasted, no matter how it happens or what your role in the break-up. You wasted so much precious time of your life on this person. And for what? Where did it get you? You're back at the bottom until the next love of your life elevates you to the peak, the crest from which you will plummet the next time, hands up in the air, screaming the whole way down again.