Oct 04, 2010 22:03
As I grow older, my feelings and my relationships with boys get more and more complex. I miss the good old days of simple, plain, monogamous, clearly-defined boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They are a long-lost relic of a simpler time, it seems. But as boy-relationships become more complicated, I become more equipped to tell the boys they involve clearly and exactly what I feel and what I want. I can tell them "Please kiss as many other girls as possible, but please don't fall in love with them" and "Someday we should try to make it work again, not now, obviously, but someday" and "We're not through, okay?"
As Sean and I have concluded, you should always ask for what you want, because the worst thing they can say is no.
Well, actually, that's not the worst thing that they can say. Like, you should never ask a police officer if he will sell you drugs. Because in that case, you might get an answer worse than "No." But as a general rule. Sometimes you write your heart out on the pages before them and all they give you are maybe a few more smiles than usual and a quick departure for the shower when you come over as acknowledgment for all of that.
But sometimes you ask them for what you want and they say "Alrighty then." And then you know you have succeeded.
sean,
charlie,
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cory