Vanishing Act

I will be the first to admit that the majority of women have a tendency to forget their regular life once a boy works his way in to the picture. Life becomes all about said boy and friends are left by the wayside. While I have never turned my back on my friends, I am not completely guilt free. If a boy has caught my attention he tends to be my topic of choice so my friends are forced to hear all about him and my theories about what is happening.

I had hoped that this was a trend that would fade away as my friends and I entered in to the world of mature dating (if there even is such a thing), but that is not the case. There is a very valid reason why single girls secretly wish that all of their female friends stay single... that way they will never be forgotten about.

Being a lifer in the single world it seems sometimes, I have been the forgotten one too many times. So here is my suggestion to everyone out there: make time to spend with your significant other, and time to spend with your friends... keep these more or less separate unless you can socialize with both easily without making your friends feel like they are crashing your date. In other words, don't invite one of your female friends out knowing she will be showing up alone to then leave her surrounded by strangers so you can have time with your boy. It's a little rude, then again I don't think the majority if Americans know what manners are anymore.

The thing that baffles my mind is that these girls seem to so easily forget a very simple fact - that boy they are all about? Yeah his chances of staying in the picture for the long haul are slim to none. Common sense would be then to not ignore your friends since they are in your life for a lot longer than that boy.

Or perhaps I'm just crazy and my way of looking at the situation is entirely wrong. But I sincerely hope that if I become one of these girls, that my friends will give me a swift kick in the ass.