The 3-week rule strikes again!

So T made me realize that it’s been 3 weeks since things started with A. And that may explain why I haven’t had news in many days.

Being invited to see the family and friends is nothing, compared to the reliability of the 3-week rule. It means nothing next to knowing that after 3 weeks, most men will leave you there with no goodbye, no nothing.

The 3-week rule strikes again!!!

The 3-week rule

I have this theory about how long single (well… mostly) guys can handle “seeing someone”.

3 weeks.

That’s what it takes for them to bolt like they’re being chased by a hungry cheetah or something. And bolt they do! It’s like they were never there. All they leave behind is a cloud of dust [think of Speedy Gonzales rushing off into the sunset or the Road Runner speeding away from yet another one of Wile E. Coyote's stupid traps to catch him] and broken egos. Nothing else.

And I do believe I can call this theory proven and tested. I am now on my 4th, yes, FOURTH guy bolting after just 3 weeks.

• The first took the occasion of me being back home during Christmas to “get jiggy with it” with some Turkish girl he’d never even heard of before. This was 3 weeks after we first had a “thing”.
• The second was always over at the apartment to see me for about 3 weeks, and then one Sunday morning he left, normal as ever. And that was the last time anyone ever saw him. Literally. Until we threw a party for his birthday about a month ago.
• The third only realized after the aforementioned 3 weeks that, maybe, after all, he wasn’t the kind of guy who cheats on his girlfriend. Once it was too late. How convenient.
• And finally, the fourth and last (so far), was very nice at first, not going to training to go to the movies with me and preferring to be with me than some of his friends at a party. We saw each other for about 2 or 3 weeks. And it has now been 3 weeks exactly (minus a few hours, but does it really matter at this point?) since we last saw each other.

What do you say to that? They say it takes 3 bodies to make a serial killer. Can 4 men not a theory make?

So. To any of you girls/ladies/women/whomever out there, beware!

Beware of the 3-week rule that will make a man bolt even if things are going fine, or better than that even, between you. It’s like the pull of the moon on the sea, the cycle of life or wrinkles. It’s universal. It’s inescapable. And it sucks. The 3-week rule I mean.