When Do You Really?

I started to think the other day that things when you are dating aren't always as easy as black and white, day and night or any other similie you can think of, sometimes what we have to take into consideration is the fact that we're sometimes caught off guard. Its hard to really define when you're dating someone or when you're jsut two friends out for a good time. Its even harder to define a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Its funny how those first two milestones are kind of dependant on so many factors to be decided and with things like marriage or engagement there's so much formality to the process. Just think about how many times you've actually just walked up to someone and said, "Hey let's be boyfriend and girlfriend."

The thing about all of it is, even some dates and can creep up on you discretely, maybe it started out as a friendly thing but half way through the outing it turned out that you saw a whole new side to that other person that you didn't realize existed. I mean we've all had that friend that we didn't really think about dating until we hung out with them one day and found out how cool they are.

And prehaps some of us have had the opposite happen, you went on a date and realized you just wanted to be friends. Neither one of those is uncommon.

So the real question here, asd proposed at the start of all this is, why are there no guidelines for defining when people are actually boyfriend and girlfriend? And what's that final point that kind of sends it all over the edge and proves once and for all that you are really with some one.

I don't really have answers for the questions and I doubt there ever really will be definite answers.