Goodbyes are never easy, I know

Broke up with someone else yesterday.

This time it was my girlfriend from Friday night. I've known her probably 5 months and she's been a lot of pain. She's one of those girls who relies on men to pay for everything, buy her drinks when we go out, pay for her parking, pay for her dinner, etc. In other words, she hustles men, pure and simple. I detest that type of attitude. I am too much of a feminist to let that happen. Cut a long story short I had to share my thoughts on her hustling and trifling with her via email and she didn't take it very well, so we said our goodbyes. If Atlanta was not so small I wouldn't fear bumping into her in the same social circles, but it is, and it's a shame because I hate awkward runins.

So far this year within the past 6 months alone, I have broken up with quite a lot of people. Some (actually one) I miss more than others. There was:

1. SC guy, very adorable and wealthy young man but I had to ask him to act like a gentleman;
2. Cheap guy, who, thankfully, broke my 4 year itch, but was a terrible cheapskate that had a thing for tiny women and his soon-to-be married ex;
3. Crazy stalker guy, who texted me and called me incessantly;
4. Facebook, which turned out to be a bad idea on all levels;
5. Yelp-ers, who turned out to be a clique and not a fun website as I thought;
6. The infamous "attorney" guy, who I miss the most out of all the breakups, and I am now settling into the fact that I may never see or hear from him again; and
7. Finally, my girlfriend, who turned out to be a trifling, cheapskate.

I am not saying I don't have my faults. I am:

• negative - whatever that means
• a cynic - this one I agree with, and
• I am pessimistic, because, really how many times do I announce good news on here.

But these relationships just sort of turned out that way, sour. Maybe there were things I could have done differently that would have saved them, one being not let people that know me in real life know about this blog, being nicer to "attorney" guy while I knew him and not nagged so much, or not bother letting my girlfriend know that I despised her cheapskate attitude, or not given out my number to strange men I meet on the road causing them to think I am interested. Or maybe it was just in the cards and these people were just not feeling life the way I do, and our planetary alignments were just off. Who knows with these things? The people that really care about you and make an impact in your life, stick around, negative, cynical, bitchy, crazy as you may be. They stick around and just plow through it bringing into your relationship their own faults and you form an amazing unity. I still have friends who are aware of these issues but still want to be my friend, I still have exes who still want to occasionally ask how I am doing. That's just the way life is, we are all disjointed parts that try to compliment each other. It's always sad when we break up but in the end, that initial hurt is awful, but we get over it and look forward to another relationship I suppose.

But it just seems like a lot of goodbyes for one summer.