Thursday, 18 June 2009

  • Two Guys, One Girl and a Bar...

    Miss Rhino

    A girl walks into a bar and says to the bartender: "You're cute. Wanna get out of here?" Meanwhile the guy who drove the girl to the bar and is currently holding her jacket and purse sighs and resigns himself to another night alone.

    This is a dramatization of the events happening in my friend's life right now. Let me introduce you to the cast. The girl is Becky. She is free-spirited, slightly wild and has never has the best decision-making process when it comes to men but has everyone's best interests at heart. She met the bartender. He is over ten years her senior, is slightly balding with pointy ears and has a 7-year-old son. Becky is hopelessly in love/lust with him. They have been seeing/sleeping with each other for a while now and, from what she tells me, it is amazingly mind-blowing. Even through all of the immediately recognizable obstacles in front of dating a guy like him, Becky is inexplicably drawn to him. More so than any guy she has ever dated. Only problem is, whenever she goes to see him at the bar he is flirting with other girls. Granted that does come along with the profession. Big tips stem from big smiles, right? Needless to say, this bothers Becky immensely. As it rightfully should.

    When she first told me of her plight, my advice was to bring around another man and flirt right back in his face. Two can play at that game, however childish it might be. But Becky was already two steps ahead of me. She has also been seeing another guy. He is caring and sensitive and means well, everything that the bartender is not. He has already professed his love for Becky and desire to be her boyfriend one day. Becky knew that her heart just wasn't in it, but she continued to bring him out with her to the bar in order to provoke some emotion from her wayward lover. One thing led to another and Becky caved to the sweet boy's advances. Flattery sometimes does get you places, in this case, into someone's pants. Now she's in deeper than she could have ever imagined.

    As we talked about it, Becky recognized what she was doing. She was using her chivalrous suitor to fill what her heart needs emotionally, but what she doesn't feel for him physically she sees in the bartender and uses him to complete her physical needs. Her heart was trying to satisfy both the emotional and the physical parts of love. But in the most unhealthy way possible - with two separate men.

    Is it possible to have either one or the other? If she sticks with the bartender, she will never be emotionally satisfied. But she can't ignore her heart when it's telling her that he is the one she wants. The flirting is harmless and perhaps it just takes him longer to open up. But if she succumbs to the other guy, her heart will be in good hands but it will never be completely full and open with him. And that is simply unfair.

    My best advice to Becky is to ditch them both and hold out for the whole package. But we all know that is easier said than done. She feels something for both of them, but knows she can't have her cake and eat it too. Which one should she pursue and which one should she let go? 

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