About a decade ago, I had just broken up with my girlfriend of two and a half years. It was my decision. It felt like we had been going in different directions for a while, and I didn’t see a future for us. She took it pretty hard, but I was already checked out of the relationship long before then, so I moved on pretty quickly.
Enter Lauren. We worked together for about a year before I moved on to a different company (right around the time of my break up), and although we didn’t interact very often, I could always tell she had a crush on me. At my going away party, she suggested we keep in touch, and shortly after my break up, I reached out to her. For your visual purposes, I’m 6’0”, skinny, but in shape, with dark hair and blue eyes. Lauren was about 5’5”, thin, blonde hair, very pale skin. I think we were both 25 at the time.