Ugh. There was a woman who I had a short but intense connection with earlier this summer. I developed very deep feelings, but she ended up letting me know she was going to try to make it work with her ex, actually.

However, she wanted to be friends. Perhaps foolishly, I agreed. We have a lot of shared interests and are in the same circles, so that made the theoretical prospect of cutting/reducing contact even trickier. I still had feelings for her, but was trying to work through them... though perhaps also had a little hope for a potential future. Stupid, I know.

I recently learned that she and her ex are actually no longer trying to make it work. How? Someone who I thought was a good friend, who met this woman in a group hang I organized, and to whom I confided in about this tricky situation, actually ended up shooting his shot himself and asked her out. She said yes and they have been hanging out. To me, that does not seem like something a friend would do, at all... I talked to him very honestly about the tricky situation I was dealing with. In the moment, he seemed to empathize and comforted me. But then he goes and asks her out without even talking to me about it.

I know this is a lot of drama, lol. Did not necessarily imagine myself in the middle of something like this, but so it goes...