…or at least I did. I was in a relationship for a year. It was the longest relationship I had held down, and I kind of had the impression that because it was going so well (at least the first half of it) that I had finally ‘figured things out’. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped, and ended recently.
One fear I briefly held was that the whole thing was just a fluke, that I happened to get really lucky and was now at square one. But I quickly realized that taking the whole thing positively was the best way to get over it, and I found out something rather funny in the process- that when I got back into the whole dating scene, things were a lot easier than I had originally thought. All the mundane aspects of conversation, getting to know someone, taking the initiative about asking questions, etc just seemed so natural and seamless. So while I thought I had gone in a big unproductive circle through 2005, I guess I learned a lot more than I realized 
