Jenna - Sociopathic behavior

I hate being blind sided.

Last week when I was driving back from and when I got back from Colorado  I was texting Victoria.  When we were together on that Saturday things kind of went quickly or rather our conversation went quickly to us being more than just friends.  It went to sex.

This is the same thing that happened with Jenna.  Jenna is Frank's Daughter.  Frank was probably one of the best friends I have ever had in my life.  Frank passed in 2012.  Jenna reconnected with him right before he passed.  I got to know her a little bit then.

About 6 months after Wendy passed, I saw her at the grocery store.  We talked for quite a while there and she said all these wonderful things about me.  We made plans to meet later that week so we did.  We went for a walk and then back to her place.  The conversation quickly went to us being more than just friends.

And so I bit.  I have to say things seemed a bit off.  She gave me a tour of her apt and showed me the spare bedroom and said, "This is where you would sleep!?"  I really thought something would happen between her and I.  So much so that I went for one of my hikes up Elden and took a picture up there and texted it to her.  And when I didn't hear anything for a couple of days I freaked out.  I went over JD's house and totally broke down.  I felt that if I had gone back to my house I would just drive into the garage shut the door behind me with car still running.

After that I got a bit more guarded.  Things did seem a bit off.  She was a bit over the top with compliments and accolades.  Her not texting me happened a number of times.  It seemed very incongruent the way she would really up-talk me and then seemingly disregard my texts.  I was actually getting better responses from my ex-wife than her.  It really felt like there was something going on.

She did say she wanted to keep it at friends but wanted to work toward a deeper relationship.  She came over and watched some movies with me.  I even got a big screen TV from JD which I don't use.

She asked if she could barrow my car to go to the Grand Canyon for a job interview.  I didn't see a problem with it.  After all it was a 2000 Toyota Minivan.   She got this little spongy stress reliever "star" thingy from her interview and gave it to me.  I was going up to Boulder that following weekend and told her I was climbing a mountain called Bear Peak.  She asked me to take a selfie with me and star at the top of the mountain.  I did and never heard anything back.

We had planned to watch another movie the Sunday after I got back but she texted and asked if we could meet at a bookstore instead saying nothing about the picture I sent her.  We met and talked a little bit and parted.  I texted her a couple days after that and never heard from her again.  I did see it coming and although I was a little hurt over it I was able to let it go with quite a lot of ease.

Among the conversations we had she talked about how horrible her ex-husband was.  I was actually warned about her by a couple people.  My friend Stormie told me she had seen her at a grocery store with her ex-husband during the time we were meeting each other.

Yes, something was going on and the best I could figure was that she was trying to make her ex-husband (I question that now) jealous.  Yes being used feels kind of bad but I was able let it go quickly.  Very quickly in the relationship (if you want to call it that) I stopped taking it seriously.