I've stumbled across a small setback in my recovery.
I was in the breakroom at work when a random number sent me a picture message. I opened it to find several recent pictures of my target. It has been months since I've seen an image of her and it felt like I got hit in the chest with a brick, followed by someone dumping ice water down my spine. So much sadness which instantly lit up into anger, someone was fucking with me and they were about to be dealt with. I wasn't in any condition for work, I made some bullshit excuse and left.
I sped home, took the number and traced it. It came from her house, I knew it wasn't as hers, I knew it by heart. I started screening possible family members and it turns out it was, her mom? I went to my mother's house and went through her contacts(the two are friends from years back) and confirmed it.
My identity isn't revealed or in jeopardy, no light has been shed on my old habits. The two know of our history together, her mother is doing this for two reasons if not both.
A.) - Her mother doesn't like the crowd she's getting involved with or figures she'd do better with me. Understandable, the company she kept in the past isn't the greatest group of people. Without my influence those idiots just came back.
B.) - Her reaching out through her mother to get my attention. She's shy like that, it wouldn't be the first time she's done so through her mother.
I'll have to give it time, either option means that now I'll have the best chance I'll have at obtaining what I've lost. I'll wait, hopefully not make a decision based off of momentary judgement. The more and more I think about it, the more logical reasons for gaining her seem to surface. It would just be impractical not to go after her. 6 years and this is an open, guided opportunity at her.
If I fail it should only discourage me further, making it easier to break away I suppose.