After the 1989 blockbuster movie “When Harry Met Sally…” many were left questioning whether truly platonic relationships are possible. But friendships between men and women really do exist and, if anything, are becoming increasingly common.
I love my friendship with Patrick. Perhaps one day my heart will catch up with my head.
Because in today\’s modern world, a guy and a girl looking for love can make plans, rush home from work, wash extra carefully in certain areas, put on nice clothes, spend three hours in flirtatious conversation at the local sushi joint, say a warm good night and still come home wondering whether what they just experienced was a date or two people who wanted to be on a date but were instead simply \”hanging out.\”
The date was going really well. The conversation was flowing. We were practically finishing each other\’s sentences.
Affairs of the heart are a big investment for this conservative, long-term investor.
Before I found my incredible guy, I was engaged to someone whom I went out with for two and half years — probably two years too long. Of course, after we broke up, everyone I knew said that he was just \”OK\” and that I deserved someone better.
When it comes to relationships, girls are all about group think. We poll all our friends; we share all the evidence.
\”J-ated,\” as in \”jaded,\” might be the best way to describe the ennui that has set in among many JDaters these days, singles tired of the merry-go-round of endless possibility and disappointment.
In spite of that, or because of it, new dating Web sites seem to pop up every day.
I have a friend who answered one of these \”too-good-to-be-true\” ads. They met for brunch and she knew right away it wasn\’t going to work out because he glanced at the menu and then said, \”So, do you want to split an order of toast?\”
There\’s a guy in line behind me whose name I can\’t remember but who is a good friend of a 50-year-old I once dated whose name I also can\’t remember, which is kind of ironic — I stopped dating him because he\’s too old, and it\’s my memory that\’s failing.
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