
Last August I met a Cap man while on vacation in Florida (I live in IL). He's a lifeguard at one of the public beaches and he had just gotten out of a rocky 3-year relationship with a fellow Cap woman just a few weeks prior to meeting me. I wasn't looking for anyone while I was on vacation, but after a week of this Cappy treating me like a Princess (something I RARELY ever get from men), I quickly found myself falling for him. We met one morning as I was coming out of the water from swimming. I saw that my beach umbrella had blown away in the wind, and then I see this cute lifeguard walking towards me smiling and carrying my umbrella. He helped me re-plant it and began chatting me up. He asked if I would like to hang out with him later that night, and I agreed. That night we walked along the beach making small talk and then he took me out to dinner. He was a perfect gentleman. For the rest of that week, he followed me around like a puppy dog, spending every single day and evening with me, ALWAYS being a perfect gentleman. I was absolutely impressed by this!!! At the end of the week, he admitted to me that he had been watching me from the moment I first stepped onto the beach that day, and when he saw my umbrella blow away in the wind, he jumped at the chance to grab it and use it as an icebreaker to talk to me. On the day I left to return home, he looked so sad & depressed you would've thought his best friend had just died! I was proud of myself for maintaining my space during that week and never appearing clingy or chasing him, which was easy considering I was on vacation and had plenty to do to entertain myself. However, when I returned to my home state, things slowly got ugly. He kept in constant contact with me every single day for 3 months. Honestly, I was shocked that he would hang on so long to a girl he only knew for a week who lived 1,200 miles away. The problem is that I am VERY UNHAPPY where I live. One of the reasons I vacation in Florida is because I want to live there someday. I feel like I truly belong by the ocean instead of stuck in po-dunk town Midwest. It didn't take long for my depression and frustration at being in IL and being away from him to rear its ugly head. That's when I started getting clingy and becoming dependent on his constant contact for my happiness. It caused him to pull two week-long disappearing acts on me during those 3 months, but luckily he always came back around after a week of no contact..











