I went to a concert last week with Girl A. At the concert we meet up with another friend of mine Girl B and Boy X. Girl A and Girl B know each other through me and I know Boy X through Girl B. Girl A and Boy X had not met before.
However during the course of the evening, Girl A and Boy X took a liking to each other. Girl B (who is happily married to someone else) didn’t seem to too pleased about this and decided to leave, to “get Boy X away from Girl A.
This week, I receive an email from Boy X asking if it would be ok for him to ask Girl A out for a drink. He had cc-ed the email to Girl B. I asked Girl A and she was pleased so I passed her email address on to him.
A few hours later, I had an email from Girl A demanding to know if I’d passed on her details because he hadn’t been in touch. I told her to be patient. Then Girl B emailed to ask if I knew whether they were going out yet. I told her that I had passed on the email address and that was all. She then replied saying “Keep me in the loop”.
This morning, there was an email from Boy X thanking me for sorting things out and then another from Girl A asking if Boy X knows that she has been married. I don’t know what he knows about her. I've not said anything other than pass on her email.
I’m not going to keep Girl B in the loop. I don’t want to be in the loop myself. If they go out and like each other, that’s great. But otherwise I don't want to be kept informed. Its getting awkward already.
7 comments:
definitely keep well clear after this,if it all goes wrong they'll blame you!!!
I know! All three of them probably will!
I'm confused!
Why does Girl A's previous marriage make a difference? Is she still married? Or divorced?
And what difference does it make to Girl B as she isn't going out with Guy X?
This situation seems unnecessarily fraught. I think you're wise keeping out of it.
I think technically Girl A is just separated but is getting divorced. I don't know why it should make any difference. As for Girl B, I think it is a control thing.
I'm going out with Girl A tomorrow and I'm not even going to mention Boy X. It all seems rather ridiculous at our age - really calling them Girl and Boy wasn't accurate but it sounded better than Woman A and Man X.
Who gives a f*** about details ... just tell them you don't approve of extra-relational excursions and don't want to be involved...ok I know it sounds SO righteous...
But it keeps you completely off the hook, and subsequently uncommitted to either side...which is handy when it all gets messy...
Cogi - I think you misunderstand. Girl A isn't with isn't with her busband anymore (he doesn't even live in this country) and they've been split a year now. And Boy X is completely single. It is the other person who is married.
But I thought you implied Girl B and Boy X were an item...until he took a fancy to Girl A that is...certainly Girl B seems to think she has a claim on him...(and if that's not extra-relational, I don't know what is!)...
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