Endings.

After a lot of thought, observation, and gut-checking, I ended my deep but short relationship with my now ex today.
He is a really great guy, and I still think that.
I ended this because it became clear that with all his other stressors--the daughter (and thusly the ex-wife), the house to try to get on the market, the management role at a small firm... I came last.
It wasn't that he was mean or treated me poorly. It was that he didn't reciprocate my attention and love because he was always somewhere else in his head.
I decided that I am 30, and it is time to be selfish with myself.
As much as I adored this guy, he wasn't meeting my needs, and that just won't do anymore.
Possibly, according to him, we will do this again in the future. Not any time soon though.
And not if he doesn't really earn it.