You met him briefly in a bar. A quick hello. He bought you a drink. Would\u2019ve bought you two, but you had a boyfriend. You definitely didn\u2019t let him kiss you in the back alley.<\/p>\n
Going back with him to his apartment was out of the question.<\/p>\n
You weren\u2019t that sort of girl. The kind that cheats that is.<\/p>\n
Weeks later when you were off again with your boyfriend, you looked him up on Facebook. He didn\u2019t tell you his name, but you had your ways. In some ways it was a small town. Finding him wasn\u2019t that difficult.<\/p>\n
He had a girlfriend. According to his Facebook status they got together a week before you met him.<\/p>\n
Good thing you didn\u2019t go back to his apartment that night.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t matter, you knew that in a few weeks you\u2019d patch things up with your boyfriend and things would be back to normal. The sex would be fantastic. It\u2019s why you put up with him and his jealous fits. You had the moral high ground, you\u2019d never cheated on him. He had nothing to be jealous of.<\/p>\n
So what if you were a flirt?<\/p>\n
You didn\u2019t know why, but you kept going back to that stranger\u2019s profile. He didn\u2019t have it protected, so stalking it was fair game. There was a momentary twinge of guilt when you clicked on his girlfriend\u2019s profile. An open book. Pictures of the two of them together. Her sappy statuses she tagged him in declaring her undying love.<\/p>\n
Months later you still scrolled through their profiles. Sappier statuses. Fewer pictures.<\/p>\n
You weren\u2019t surprised when you looked one day and he was listed as single. Even less surprising was that she was still listed as being in a relationship. They were no longer friends.<\/p>\n
Did she cheat on him? Did she find somebody new? Or had she just not logged into Facebook yet to find out she was now single?<\/p>\n
You\u2019d seen this play out time and time again with your friends. True love that wouldn\u2019t last a year. Love announced to the world in status updates.<\/p>\n
At least you knew where you stood with your boyfriend. Together most of the time, decently happy. Bitter fights that ended in separation. Then somebody would break down and extend an olive branch. It was always accepted. Because, quite frankly, you knew the makeup sex was what you were both there for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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