This may be the wrong forum for this, but I keep hearing people bitch about wanting men to be more open with their feelings, so sips from whiskey glass here the fuck it goes.

I was seeing a girl circa December 2019. A nurse, in fact. We were basically friends with benefits, we weren't even exclusive. She had this habit where if she didn't want to deal with me right then, she'd make breaking up with me kind of noises. "I don't think it's working out," that sort of thing. Then ten days later I'd get a request for a large dose of Vitamin D.

I started having some tooth and jaw pain. This went on for a couple days, it starts to worry me, I want some reassurance, I text her, I say "I think I need to go to the dentist." "Look, I think it's not working out between us."

The next day a third of my right upper bicuspid falls off.

Two weeks later, I get a text. "Hey I just got a copy of OK Computer on vinyl. Wanna come over and 'listen' to it?" and I show up with that little metal stud they put in the implant to let it heal before installing the crown, and got at least some of our collective rocks off over the next twelve hours. It was late January 2020 by this time, she disappeared into the pandemic not long after that and I haven't heard from her since.

This isn't the only, first or last time a woman who I thought of as a friend, confidant or lover has done something like that, just completely shut me down before I even got a chance to say "It hurts and I'm scared."

"You should be more emotionally available." All evidence to the contrary.

My glass is empty now. Back to the bottle for a refill.