2003-06-12
RelationshipED
So. I'm in one of those "relationships" now. You know the offical kind...not the implied ones..the exclusive kind...not the swinging kind. The real deal. Which means I have to do some heavy back pedalling because of all my anti-relationship propaganda spewed from my mouth over the last 2..4..7 years...or so.
However, It's still hard for me. The back pedalling that is. People try to get me in a corner and say "SEE LAURIE!" (They only need to say 2 words to get their point across that relationships are "cool"). Then I'm automatically on the defensive. I can't just completely do a 180 on the crap I've been spewing. I've been with that crap for so long. I can't just dump it and leave it on the side lines. Sure I'm in a "relationship" now but I'm not just going to drop part of my life/history so people can poke fun at me. I don't work that way. I'm far too cool for that.
My roommate takes great joy in the poking funness. She likes to curl up on a couch and say repeatively in a baby voice, "Ooooh...Laurie has a boyfriend. Laurie has a boyfriend. Ooooh." Every day. The times I don't punch her in the stomach, I run away screaming "I don't have a boyfriend."
What's up with the term "boyfriend" and "girlfriend"? Doesn't it seem so 1992? So high school? So Grade 2 when me and John use to "hang out" in the club house? Don't you feel kind of pedophilic if you told people you had a BOY-friend or GIRL-friend when you're in your FUCKING twenties? One time when a lady at work talked about her "boyfriend" one of my bold associates called her a cougar. To her face. I don't want to be labelled a cougar. Even if its incorrect.
Whenever people introduce people as their "boyfriends" or "girlfriends" its like their introducing an extension of themselves. Like these people aren't really even people. I think next time I introduce....ummmmm.....that offical person in my life to someone else I think I'm going to say, "Here's a person."
popnoir at 5:49 p.m.