posted October 02, 2012 11:55 PM            

I'm involved with a Virgo man. A company director and father of two kids from two previous relationships. He's been (up until things got busy with his business) extremely attentive, a brilliant communicator (even emailing me from his villa on holiday every night when we first began talking,) and verging on the delicately (if formally and precisely as only Virgo can be!) romantic!

As I say, his business has required him to be away for the past three to four weeks and therefore our contact has dropped off quite a bit, because as I've had to learn with this man, he focuses intently on his work, it being his and his children's source of daily bread. Totally understand that, it just requires a little adjustment on my part when I've been used to being lucky enough to have a great deal of his attention each day by text or by phone.

He even came to see me straight after getting off the plane on his return from one leg of this particular trip and so believe me, I am NOT complaining! This man is stretched to the absolute limit and to be honest I'm worried about his health if he carries on like this. The only reason I'm putting it all 'out here' is more so that I can see it all in its entirety and see the facts and the truth of his actions, rather than getting lost in some little fluffy pink Libran bubble.

Thursday is my birthday and he was due to meet up and spend the weekend with me however he's just told me that one of the projects is in jeopardy and he believes he'll be called upon to go and fix it as from tomorrow which means he'll be out of the country and unable to meet up. He also talked of the fact he really misses his kids and wants to see them which I'm in absolute understanding of; if I hadn't seen my kid for more than one day and a night in the last three weeks I'd be champing at the bit too!

He told me he had a bit of a problem in that he'd begun preparing my birthday present but due to the fact he would now have to be away he wouldn't be able to finish it or deliver it as he'd planned. It turns out, that despite all this man is dealing with (work, missing his kids, being away from home for such a long time,) he had still found the time to paint me a picture for my birthday gift, and was intending to frame it and deliver it to me on my birthday had he not been called away again.

Needless to say I'm so touched I can't quite believe it! He said he hadn't known what else to get me but he knows I love his art work (a hobby of his that he'd let slip and I begged him to pick up again because he's so good,) so he's taken what little spare time he had to do that for me.

To think that I was (and ok still am slightly) smarting because his contact had completely dropped off and he didn't mention missing me at all... well it makes me feel deeply ungrateful in the light of that gesture. It emerges that because of work and seeing his kids he and I might not see each other for about 6 weeks. I'll be honest and say that I hate the thought of it but I can see that it's not his fault at all. It's just difficult in the early stages of a relationship when you're trying to build a connection that's all.