Riding the waves of past and future

when the things you used to know battle with the things you know now.

I have a first date tomorrow. I have had inumerable dates this year, these past seven years of singleness in fact, but something is different. I am different.

Since I was last in a serious relationship I have trained and qualified and begun working as a psychotherapist. I have done an enormous amount of reflection, undone old adaptations and built new ones; I have learned how to receive and give love, I have learned how to feel my body and I have learned what is important to…