Coming Full-Circle

Rodrigo is back.

I won’t go into a great deal of detail, it is too personal. Suffice to say that I received an email from Rod about a month and a half ago, saying that he’d been doing a lot of personal development work and wanted to meet to discuss reconciliation. After two weeks I conceded, we met and have hardly been apart since.

In many ways, we’ve fallen back into old routines and social circles and it feels as if he never left; a comfortable familiarity. In other ways, there is a new level of maturity in the relationship and improved communication and negotiation. In short, we’re both happy but understand that a relationship is an ongoing process that requires communication and compromise on many different levels.

We are not living together yet (although he spends every night here) and I have some “unraveling” to do. For example, I had rented out the ranchito for five months beginning in November of this year. (I didn’t know where I was going to go but I was going to go somewhere.)

Additionally, since construction has started on the casita, there is no longer a dog house for his dogs. This little detail, however, did not prevent him from seizing an opportunity to acquire a new family member while working at a dog show in neighboring Queretaro.

Enter BG (for Big Girl).



BG is a three month old Newfoundland puppy who promises to weigh close to 130 Lbs. when full grown.

I explained to Rod that bringing BG to the ranchito is kind of like surprising me with a new roommate; a roommate who is not potty trained and likes to tromp through the flower beds.

But she is awfully cute, and I’ve agreed to try. And he’s agreed that no new dogs will magically appear. I guess that counts as compromise.