“He’s my best friend and you’re either OK with that or you’re not.”

“I love him, but I’m not in love with him.”

“We have such a long history, there is no separating us, he will be in my life forever.”

Any of these sound familiar?

It’s in the back of your mind and you just can’t seem to shake it loose.  It’s not as if you’re talking to any of your ex-girlfriends anymore.  Every girl that has been in your past, has quietly bowed out with her time.  There are no phone calls, there are no text messages, and there surely aren’t any thoughts that pass through your head which incline you to reach out to them.

Her situation is quite the opposite. (more…)

Sometimes when you’re bored out of your mind, or sitting on the toilet without a magazine in arms reach, you pull out that cell phone and start combing through the lost barrage of names in your phone book.  Lost old friends, single serving friends you met on a random night, or even that name that just as a single letter “M” who you can’t recollect to save the shirt on your back.

Occasionally these lost souls have a way of coming back from the past to once again appear in that Recent Call list.  A friend recently asked me what it means when a guy she used to date or “hang out” with contacts you after a long period of radio silence. (more…)