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Jenn Price does not proclaim to be an expert on dating…but her years of practice (and willingness to share stories) will certainly get people talking. Join in the dialogue each week as Jenn tackles matters of the heart.
We always knew it would happen. We didn’t know whom it would happen to first, or how the other would feel. Would the runner-up feel left behind? Envious even? Well, the day has come and now we know.
My BFF got engaged this summer and recently celebrated with a beautiful party for family and friends, with class and style and in a way that showcased the blissful, fun-loving couple.
For years, our dating habits mimicked each other’s. She would meet someone and become a ‘we’ and then it would happen to me. She would have a heart-wrenching break-up and months later, so would I. We used to laugh because it was like her dating life was foreshadowing my own. Sometimes (but very rarely), it was the other way around. We assumed that once one of us found our Mr. Right, the other would soon thereafter.
And so it happened, that when my bestie finally joined paths with her now fiancé, our courses separated and to outsiders, it seemed that I was left behind. At their recent engagement party, it didn’t even hit me that it had truly happened until her mom and sister asked if it was hard for me. I really thought about it, and I came to this conclusion.
For years, I assumed that if it happened to her before me, that I would feel a sense of loss, and that it might be unbearable. As it turns out, to my liking, the opposite is true.
Above all else, I feel that I’m gaining a special person in my life, one that I can form a bond with, because I know he’s around for the long haul. And, seeing how happy and relaxed my bestie is, warms my heart and fills me with more joy than a loss of her singlehood could ever take away.
As soon as I saw them getting serious, rather than get scared or envious, I consciously focused my energy on creating and nurturing a full circle of girlfriends. Single, attached, married; I’ve got them all. And while emotions come over me now and then that such a major change has occurred, I know that the paths we are both on are the best ones for us right now. Seeing her so happy, and seeing how devoted her fiancé is to her, and how he encourages her to keep me as an integral part of her and their lives, is inspirational.
Left behind? Au contraire. I feel like I’m along for the ride and I’m loving it.
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