I've Never Gotten Through A Breakup Without A Rebound

This time, I abstained.

For the last decade, I’ve been in and out of long-term relationships.

And, when each of those relationships ended, I—effective immediately—would find a rebound. After all, the easiest way to get over someone is to get under someone else, right?

But I don’t just mean I would find a one-night-stand, nor do I mean I’d fall straight into a long-term relationship with someone else.

Rather, I happened to always find someone I could have a beautiful, brief fling with—an all-consuming love affair that would distract me from my broken heart with the (fleeting) excitement and dopamine of someone new.

These rebounds weren’t just a little band-aid for me where the wound would inevitably open up again once ripped off. They were a full body band-aid.

… Or so I thought.