Rendezvous with friends

Last night, I had dinner with 2 girlfriends. One of them is a veteran in relationships like me. The other one, who called for the dinner, is a late bloomer.

Con invited us to dinner to "consult" about how to deal with a make-out buddy who she is in love with.

We talked about a lot of things, tried to keep tabs on what's happening in our lives.

I missed both of them.

Celia is happy with her partner of one year. They are both surrogate parents to a lot of felines.

With 2 relationship old-timers and 1 newbie, there were a lot of questions we tried to fathom:

When is being close too close?

Is it true that proximity between friends result to something beyond friendship?

Why is it that when you are already within your comfort zone and you are sold with your paradigms, something/someone comes along to rock your world and make you question what you already have?

Is it okay to flirt with someone when you are in a committed relationship as long as you don't sleep with them?

Is there such a thing as forever?

As to the dilemma on forever or eternity, both Celia and I have issues about it. I have long been questioning its existence, but somehow, at the back of my head and the innermost part of me wish that it does exist.

Morning conversation with Jovan:

Me: You have to know that it takes a big VAVAVOOM for a long term relationship to be thrown in the basket and be replaced with a new one. Women have this bad habit of clinging into relationships no matter how bad they are.
Jovan: Tsk tsk. Poor mindless fools.

Are we really mindless fools? No matter how much we rave about women empowerment, why does it take so long for us to dump useless and imbecile boyfriends?

While some women have this dilemma, I, on the other hand, am struggling to keep a worthy boyfriend with me, what with all the pressure and stress around us.

To each his/her own.