Spring Break

Spring Break.  Yes, indeed.  The hormones are running a muck with the college-age crew and now they are all wondering back to Sonoma County after being away with their new love interests in tow.  
This is where the love merry-go-round begins and I'm not certain how to tell them it's nearly impossible to ever get off.  This is life.  Nobody has figured out how to operate the relationship escape hatch...unless you have a totally stone cold hart. 

Some college kids coming home have announced their homosexual preferences, some their bi-sexual preferences, and some are not announcing anything (they the smart ones).  See, most of the kids have had a serious love interest in high school of some kind.  Now this is where jealousy and letting go comes into play.  The high school relationships have ended and new ones are budding.  The problem is that feelings still linger for the old relationships despite having new partners of whatever sex.  Some are dating each others relationship cast-offs, and it's causing hard feelings despite that an official "break up" has happened. 

Now it's the Facebook/Instagram/social media whatever drama of spring break pictures gloating with their new relationships to get a 'dig' in at the old high school lovers and how they have moved on.  What makes matters worse is that even if you choose to ignore the social media postings just know that your 'friends' will report to you that so-and-so is with so-in-so and they were seen lovey-dovey at the movie theatre kissing and sharing popcorn.  

My daughter has been strong through this rite of passage of her first real taste of the adult love merry-go-round.   Relationships and feelings are complicated and messy.  There is no logic to it and no magic answer.  I wish I could tell her that the merry-go-round will stop and she can get off.  I can't.