Hanging out with an opposite-sex friend is not a date. tara: Sorry, just need to vent.
The brief story: I am maybe three weeks separated, filing this week, but it was a long time coming. This divorce is amicable (biggest reason -- divergent views on when and whether to have kids). I'm grieving the marriage, but there was no betrayal or abuse or drugs or anything. Just different directions in life. We're on friendly terms.
Anyhow, I am getting crap from my mother, who unfortunately was in the room when I got the phone call, for accepting an invitation to visit a friend of mine in the next town over. We're not talking dinner and a show, not talking about spending the night -- we're talking about just getting coffee. Maybe going to the batting cages or something. Because this friend is (a) male and (b) also going through a divorce, my mother immediately assumed I had accepted a date, and she went batty. "It's too soon; you haven't moved out yet and you're going on dates?"
Because nobody has ever had opposite-sex friends before, right?
Next time, I send the phone to voice mail. Learned my lesson.
Re:Hanging out with an opposite-sex friend is not a date. brokenman: Well, depending on your relationship with your mother, next time you might ask her to check your diaper. ;D I can understand her concern, but she really overplayed her part in my opinion... especially since she went on an assumption. Oh yeah, good vent. Doesn't it feel good?
Re:Hanging out with an opposite-sex friend is not a date. jason_stl: tara, my mother hated my ex. So she was asking me about a month after we started the paperwork if I was going to be bringing dates over to the house for the holidays.
Oh! .... just thought of something
