33. If I ask her a lot about her open relationship?
You’re a modern guy. (Of course you’ve had it in the ear before.) There was that britpop girl back who got off campus early, sophomore year, who invited you to her house party? She told you it would be “wicked” and you went anyway. You met her boyfriend there. It was. They were both so good to make out with, you never just assumed every cute girl was into the strict Noah’s Ark thing.
So if in the course of getting to know a girl, over a vague and non-committal burger, you might get onto the topic of who she’s seeing. You tell yourself since you’ve done the open relationship thing, too, it’s not definitely flirting. It’s pre-flirting. It’s getting the lay of the land. You’re pussy surveying. You’re asking the terms before you get lost. And so what, what gets girls to open up more than talking about dating? (Even when a girl resigns herself NOT TO TELL the boy she’s going to hang out with platonic-like about the Sadness and Current Dilemma with her boyfriend? She will.)
Here’s a few ways she’s going to take it. In the spirit of the question, there’s no one right answer.
A. She figures you either want to be The Guy With the Shoulder She Cries On, or The Guy Who’s Shoulder She Used to Cry On and Now Sleeps With Every Once In A While
B. She imagines bringing you home to her boyfriend as she’s chatting with you one night, then spills her drink on herself, and excuses herself to the bathroom to text him eight times to ask if it’s okay to bring you home.
C. Yes, she says, she’s slutty, and she’s still just not that into you.
