Us

I told you who I am. I told you who Annie is. Now I am going to talk about "Us". In other words, who am I to Annie and who is Annie to me?

Well, we aren't dating. Though I think we have dated (she might argue otherwise). I'm not sure. It is far more complicated that I thought.

Annie believes in being "friends". Its a chick thing. So I guess we have been friends together. We have also hung out together. When my kids are over, her kids and my kids have hung out together. All of us have hung out together.

We've also been more than friends. Annie and I have held hands, kissed, hugged, spent the night, had sex a few times, gone places alone and with others. That's friends to her. Except she might say the sex and other intimacies were bad ideas that went too far. I see them as a part of the whole deal.

In my mind we were friends who became more.

Perhaps in her mind we have only just been friends all along with some unfortunate boundary crossings that slipped in there.

So that is what we were. I hope it is clearer to you than it is to me. Because it isn't at all clear to me. I am confused as hell.