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well, that was fun.

So I'm of the mind right now that hanging out with your engaged friends while single is the same thing as a recovering alcoholic spending six hours in a blues bar with a sign in front of you reading, "Rehab is for quitters."

This in no way is to be an afront to Kevin or Bentley, but seriously: if you've just gotten out of a 9 month relationship with a woman that you were, at one time, madly in love with only to watch it fizzle up towards the end, spending time with the "we just bought a house together!" and the "oh, you just drove 88 miles spend 6 hours with me before turning around and driving back!" would probably be a wholly masochistic experience.

Will and I had a couple of conversations on the subject between cavity inducing scenes of affection where we waxed realistically about how since the two of us both got out of confusing and slightly frustrating relationships, maybe we should A) just try actually dating for once, B) work on finding something we like in our lives that makes us happy that does not have breasts, and C) distancing our time spent with those in the Ozzie and Harriet in training sect.

Again, it's nothing personal to these four great people we know, but the difference between hanging out with Brent+1 and Kevin+1 and hanging out with say, Sloth and Kelly is that one set of people is wholly in love with their coupledom because it feels to them (and in all honesty, they're right about this feeling) like they're about to make a leap they are truly sure of regarding love and life and, for the moment, the promise of happiness and adulthood as a result leaves them in a euphoric state that is akin to rolling on E. Sloth and Kelly meanwhie, are the archetypical urban 20-something couple (this is only my head, mind you, so I understand if you disagree). They're two people, passionatley in love, yet very mellow about their actual relationship and their own directions. They're not hung up on their careers or their impending nuptuals (they're not even engaged yet and they've been dating for almost 2 years . More than Brent and Kevin), they're just enjoying the daily grind and the fact that they have a partner to deal with it with.

I think I'd like that.

posted by AmeroKafka @ 8:48 AM