Rihanna's "We Found Love" song came on the radio while I was walking to work and I couldn't help but smile as this song reminded me of the man I had dated for two months in the winter of 2011.
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I was still a naive college student back then and having a Goldman Sachs trader as a boyfriend was just glamorous in many ways. Our meeting was in no way one of those gold-digging stories.
I met him at an UBS-Bloomberg internship party. I had just ended an internship at Bloomberg for the summer and a colleague of mine decided to hold an "End of Internship" celebration with UBS. My first meeting with this man, who we will call Harry was brief, we did not in particular talk very much during this party.
Our second meeting was in Boston when I had flown over after my internship to do several consulting/banking interviews. I had ran into him coincidentally ran into him at the Westin.
I felt that meeting someone like this again was "destiny." Β
We chatted for quite some time at the hotel lobby, where I found out that his mother was a professor at a university near the university where I was studying abroad.
After completing my interviews, I returned back to my study abroad and we kept in touch meeting often, talking almost every hour of the day through chats or skyping. After all this, we decided to meet in Hawaii for Christmas where he had another home.
He bought my ticket and flew me over and we had a very lovely time. His house was right next to the beach and I fell in love with the glamorous lifestyle and felt very fortunate to have found someone who loved me.
During this year, Rihanna's "We Found Love" constantly played over and over on the radio. Harry and I loved this song and we used to sing along to it quite often.
It was also the song that was playing, as I drove to the airport to go back home.
He said, "Naomi, you like me right?"
I answered, "Yes, I do you like"Β
He replied, "I want to keep what we have going, but there's something I want to tell you....I have a fiance and I am getting married to her this year."
Of course I could not accept this and we havent talked ever since then. I did however, deposit money into his account for the air flight as I did not want feel as though I was a call girl that he had shipped over for his winter vacation.Β
We only want to remember the good things right? It's bittersweet.Β