Do the right thing. Don't take the easy way out of anything. Do the right thing for you and everyone else. The only "easy way out" life has ever offered me is suicide and taking a rebound mate. But it just isn't the right choice. I've made attempts at the former and I'm guilty of the latter. The latter is its own story. When you're hurt from a breakup and take another mate to ease your pain, you're taking advantage of someone. When you get better as a result of taking a rebound mate, and then you leave him or her, you've taken advantage of a human being who probably loved you more than life itself. I say that because the people who offer themselves to you to ease your pain are sometimes your best friends. I'm guilty of hurting people like that. Chances are that you are too. I want to apologize to James the coyote wherever he is. I didn't want to hurt you. I took the easy way out. I want these people to apologize to me for making me a rebound fox: James the coyote (again), Tyler the snow leopard, David who was a red fox but is a gray wolf now, and Jack and Ryan who are humans. They won't apologize to me though because they're all out of my life. When you use and then break someone like that you lose a mateship and a friendship in one blow. Go apologize to your rebound mates. They deserve to know you recognize you've hurt them.

Thank you.