With Friends Like These... Vol. VI

What started as a simple Facebook post really started to run away from me once I really got traction.

 It's funny in that it's happened OFTEN when, I'll be friends with a girl. We both acknowledge we're just friends but, we spend so much time hanging out and doing things together that others just assume we're a couple. And every single time someone, friends, family or even random strangers comment about us being involved as more than friends, my friend would immediately correct them. It doesn't bother me since I know the reality and, especially when it's a stranger, they're never going to see us again so who cares what they think?

Apparently my friend(s) did. One girl even berated me on the way back to her place from an afternoon with my family.

"You've told them we're not dating, right!? They know we're not a couple!"

"I've told them before, I shouldn't have to remind them every time I see them."

Or another girl when her friends comment on a photo of us on social media.

"I can't wait to meet your fella!"

I can only imagine how quickly the DM to correct that was sent out.

But even more ridiculous than their denial of a romance, the time these friends heard it from me that I'm not interested in anything more than being friends... Oh, they don't handle that well at all.

The aforementioned friend who had that insistence to my family? One of the last times we hung out, we were at her place for a bit and I told her outright, "I love you, love your daughter, think your family is pretty awesome. But we are never going to be a couple." You see, she and I did give it a go years before. But I realized after a while that, despite our friendship and how great we got along, how much we synched on a lot of levels, as a couple, we were toxic. It gets ugly and after we break up, it would take months before we would speak to one another and rekindle our friendship. That day, I told her in no uncertain terms, I couldn't go through that again and damage our friendship when the romance falls apart again, like it always did.

She hasn't spoken to me in over 4 years.

So odd that I told her exactly what she was demanding I tell others and that was her breaking point.

Another former friend, I think she secretly loved the idea of keeping me as her platonic friend because I was once interested in dating her. Her needy nature enjoyed the attention and having a guy around for her adventures. All the benefits of being in a relationship without those pesky feelings and intimacy getting in the way. But as soon as I started openly talking about my interest in other women, she didn't handle that well. Eventually accusing me of wildly various atrocities and that I was potentially a pedo. Yeah, that one was seriously a WHAT THE FUCK!?! moment for me at the time.

I always knew she was unstable, should probably visit a therapist and seek professional help but that was beyond the pale even for her.