Having space to be present to what is

A little over a year ago I wrote this post on Insta about a man I had met a couple days prior. I saw in him what I had seen in most men I was attracted to, which means I saw unavailability. I was pretty certain at the time that we were going to go down a very well known to me path, and that at some point I would get tired of feeling unappreciated and unwanted and would end things, likely rather dramatically, because, well that is what always seemed to happen in the past.

But there was a plot twist.