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I have held 25 jobs in my lifetime. While my tenure was very short, I have gained exposure to a lot of experiences. I am multifaceted in a multitude of different lines of work. I went from lifeguard in my teens to Advanced EMT to software developer with minimal post-secondary formal education (of course AEMT was an accelerated course I had to take). I have retained a lot of this knowledge too. I have saved lives along the way and have worked on projects for multi-billion dollar companies by the age of 30, including Zoetis, Daimler, and McCain Foods. I am also working with state legislators to pass much-needed legislation. I have appeared before county commissioners with concerns. I am probably one of the most memorable people others encounter, although a lot of this is for bad reasons.

I have had a very rough road growing up, even into most of my 20s. I was hospitalized involuntarily countless times. I missed most of my high school years being in psychological treatment centers. By the time I graduated, I was desperate to catch up on most of the adolescent experiences I missed. I only wanted to lose my virginity to another virgin at the time, which left me in a bad psychological state. I lost my virginity to a high school girl at the age of 20, which led to a whole bunch of issues with the law, mainly because her daddy called the law on me. It was a weekend fling, considering she wanted nothing to do with me afterwards. I was kicked out of multiple colleges, and even had my gym membership suspended. I lost my EMT license. I went on dates with a lot of 17-year-olds in my early-to-mid 20s, until I got my first real girlfriend at the age of 29, whom I am now engaged to and expected to marry.

My former girlfriend and I were together for the past year and things had definitely cooled off since around the holidays and I assumed she was wanting to break up. I thought Friday would be a good day to break up because she could be free to see anyone she wanted for the entire weekend. I forgot when I sent the text first thing Friday Morning that it was Valentine’s Day when she responded back asking if it was a joke. I told her it wasn’t a joke and that we should stop seeing each other and she said she understood.

Now some of our mutual friends are mad at me for breaking things off on Valentine’s Day like there’s some rule you can’t break up. Was I in the wrong? Should I have waited until Monday?