Let’s start with what didn’t get done in 2025.
Me 😉
I did not get done, in the sense that I had a celibate year.
And I’m on a streak, I wouldn’t call it a winning streak, but it is what it is.

What also did not get done;
Getting “over” The Breakup.
Which by now is years ago (questionable, I know, don’t ask)

So this post is definitely not a See-Me-Thrive one!

However, 2025 was such a great year for my heart.
So many men in my heart and mind.
I can’t help feeling grateful for this year, and that I’m back on track.

Even if that track does not seem to lead to being “over” anything, nor to starting all over again and also does not fit into the box of decentering romance and men in my life.
Or it does (I am), but as this post shows, there is still more than enough feelings of intrigue, lust and desire to go around.

Who were they?

I met one man only once, and he did not follow up on an invitation I later sent.
And yet, and yet….. if there was a betting agency I would place mine on that this story is far from over.
We’re bound to run into each other again, for one.
But also, when you know you know.

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung

There was chemistry.

Then the second one.
He belonged to 2024, technically speaking, and we never met in real life. Which, to me at least, makes it all the more special because our minds had chemistry.

We did have some conversations this year, but he did not let it come to 2024’s chemistry levels.
Which is fine.
Because I remember it anyway. And it kept at least my heart burning this year!

And then the third, who came out of the blue. He was definitely the Man of the Year, and I would put even more money on us coming back together in some shape or form, in 2026.

It was mind-blowing, yet totally cool.
Nothing happened that could have been picked up by other people, aside from all the women already in love with him, because they would have intuitively sensed it.

But it was silent, it was consistent, and it was all subtext.

It had destiny written all over.

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.~Lauren
An unexamined life is not worth living