Chapter 1: How is Amy coping post-breakup?
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Chapter 4: How does Amy describe her breakup experience?
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Welcome to the weekend. Amy joins me. Thanks for coming on, Amy. Glad to be back. We got some things to talk about this weekend. Now, you haven't been on Best Bits since you shared the big news. So how are you feeling? Yeah, I feel OK. I feel good. Better than I did. I mean, time helps with everything. So it has been a little bit. So I'm feeling better.
And in case anybody missed it, I don't want to just say big nose, but nothing. But Amy and her boyfriend broke up. It's been a couple of weeks since you shared, but you haven't been on Best Bits. We haven't got to really like have a moment to. to talk about it, but I'm glad you're feeling good and time does heal. Yes.
I'm, uh, you know, after being with someone for a year and a half, it's, it just feels different. And I don't really know what will happen. Um, I'm just trying to focus on myself and the kids and, uh, have seen him and gone to sporting events and we're cordial. Everything is good. Like it was very, uh, I don't know the word. I think I said it on the show.
Like it was just a really healthy breakup.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Amy share about healthy breakups?
Are you feeling like what kind of things are you feeling now? Because obviously you had your divorce, you healed, you went through that whole process. Then you get in a relationship and now you're having this breakup. Like, is there I imagine that a lot of people can relate to those feelings. So that's why I want to see if you can kind of talk to him.
Yeah, I mean, it's very different than a divorce. the divorce feelings after putting yourself out there and you're going through that. I think thankfully because it was so, like I said, a healthy breakup and felt peaceful. And honestly, the whole relationship was good for my nervous system. It showed me that I can be in relationships.
So it gives me hope whether it's with him or somebody else down the line, but I'm not I think I was eager for that relationship because, yeah, I hadn't experienced it before. And now that I have, I'm like, OK, I'm not someone right now that is I can't wait to get in my next relationship at all. I don't want to rush it.
I think someone even commented on maybe the Instagram post that went up about our breakup. They're like, how many dads are these kids going to have? And I was like, OK, OK. What? I had a boyfriend. He wasn't their dad. Their dad is their dad. I mean, well, technically, if they're saying that, then three, because they have their biological dad who has never been in their life at all whatsoever.
And then they have their adopted dad, which is my ex-husband, and he is very much their everyday dad. And then their dad has a girlfriend, and she plays a role in their life. And then I had a boyfriend, and he played a role in their life. And he actually still communicates with them. And they'll send texts, or they've got questions. And he... ran a lot of track and has trained.
Like, he did track in college, and yes, that was a long time ago, but he gets the gist of how to train and to run and to run fast.
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Chapter 6: How does the conversation shift towards dating and relationships?
Like, I don't know how to train a runner. And yes, Stevenson has track coaches, and I think someone said, let his dad do that. Okay, well... His dad is helping him with that. But you have someone that track is literally took up a huge chunk of their life and they can help. So I love that Stevenson can go to him and say, you know, do you have any tips for this?
Or he can just take it upon himself to say, don't forget what I taught you about doing this when you're running and how you pace yourself and. I love that you guys are still communicating because I also imagine having kids in the mix just adds another wrench to all of that. You can't just totally clean break and say bye, never again.
No, and in some people's situations, they might need to do that. In our situation, we didn't. And it was important to us that we didn't just disappear out of the kids' lives. And I understand that may not be the case for everybody. And of course, that may have an expiration date if somebody else gets into a relationship. I get that. But neither one of us are...
quickly trying to move on and that's just not at the top of my list of things to do and uh oh what I was also going to say is we even though they were involved he was involved in my kids lives we it wasn't everyday stuff like nobody was living together he wasn't taking on a dad role of course he would be there for the kids if they needed anything but same thing with his kids I had a
I had boundaries at times, like I wasn't their mom. And if we advanced in our relationship, I might take on more of a role. But I tried to respect the fact that I wasn't. And at the same time, Alex would respect the fact that he's not their dad. So... Yeah. Well, and people on the Internet always have a one skewed view of a situation versus the entire scope of a relationship.
Yeah.
So and I'm not like taking my kids around just introducing them to random men. Like, here's my son. How do you feel about? No, like. So, I mean, that part when you have kids involved, it definitely is an extra layer that makes it challenging.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges of dating as a single parent?
And, you know, you want to consider all everyone's feelings. And then as the adults, you have to make the one that's best for you. And in that moment, that's what was best for us. I don't know what time will tell, but yeah. I'm being patient and I'm open to whatever may happen down the line, but nothing is, I know for certain that that's just not my main focus right now at all.
And I'm feeling really great about that. It's a fun place to be in in your life when it isn't your focus. Yeah. And you get to enjoy other parts to it, whether it's your career, whether it's being a mom, whether it's just living alone. Yeah. Having friendships, finding new hobbies. There is a freedom that comes with that of just getting to enjoy your own company.
So maybe you're in that era right now where you're really starting to feel comfortable in that. Solitude. Yeah. Which is fun. Yeah. I don't have a problem in my being alone right now. I don't feel lonely. That may not always be the case, but right now I'm feeling good. So that's where we are.
And to anyone else that may be in a similar situation, it's not easy, especially after you've gone through a divorce and then you find somebody and it's been a year and a half. So you think, oh, this is clearly the one. and we always knew all along we're not going to keep dating if we don't think this is going to work because we have other variables.
Yeah, you were intentionally dating, which also adds more to it. When you're Fun dating, learning who you are, learning what you like. There's a different layer of seriousness that comes. But at this point in your life with kids and there is involvement and you're older, you understand that, oh, I'm not dating you just to have fun. Like this is not funsies.
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Chapter 8: What unexpected topics arise during their discussion about skinks?
No, you're dating for an intentional reason. So that just makes sense. things a little bit more complex than they would be a typical dating situation. So that's why I wanted you to speak on it because you have a different perspective. Me talking about my dating was so different. I had never been married. I was again learning who I was, learning what I wanted. It was a different type of dating.
You're in a different part of your life dating and people can relate to that. Yeah. And I think you may be in a different situation. Like you might be And you might be where I'm feeling with it, but you might be like one of my friends who's also divorced and she likes to go out all the time and she wants to meet guys. And she was trying to get me the other weekend to go out.
And I was like, that's just not what I want to go do. And she's like, oh, come on, we need to go. I met these guys and we can go out with them. And I'm like, that's not what I want to do. Yeah. Are you hearing me? This is not for me. It's not for me. And she's in that season. And I think that's great in that I may get there, but that's just not where I am.
And so I think we're at this age going out to go and meet people at bars. Well, I don't even I don't even know that I would say she's going out to bars more like there's like she's going out with groups of people to like, oh, we're going to go to this dinner or we're going to go to the I don't have heard of like the tornado room. It's like a small place in Leaper's Fork. Like it's.
But she's going with a group. And she's like, oh, and these three guys, they're going to be there. It's not like she's going out just to meet guys. But she has met people while she's going out. And she wants to go out to dinner all the time. And she just wants to be out. Because if you're out, you have more of a chance. But it's not like she's hitting the bars.
I guess I should clarify what out in your 40s means versus maybe out younger. Well, I could totally see you doing that then. The dinners and hanging out. Yeah, but that's not even what... What I want to do. And I'm having to really listen to that and then just understand that, yeah, some of my single friends are going to be in different phases of single.
That's just, I guess, the best way to put it. Yeah. Some singles are ready to go out and open to meeting. And I saw, too, if you are into that, there was this one, I don't know if it was a matchmaker or something, but... All these things are showing up on my feed because my friends have been sending me matchmakers in my DMs. And so it pops up on my algorithm now.
And she was giving a tip of if you want to go out, you need to leave the house and get out of the car of like, this is going to be the best night ever. I'm going to have the best time no matter what it is. And. that will be more likely to result in you having a good time and you potentially meeting somebody than sort of going out and being like, oh, I'm not feeling that great.
I'm not that confident. Like this sucks. I hate having to go out to meet people. Like if you enter the evening with that attitude, you're less likely to have the energy that's going to draw the attention of somebody. But if you get out of the car and be like, I feel great. Even if you're playing a little mind game with yourself, you may have more success. I had a matchmaker come on my podcast.
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