You know, Duke, you're right. Some of us have parents that have trouble being friends sometimes, but that's neither here nor there. I'm going to miss it one day, I know I will, and that's fucked up, but that's life. And as far as girls, I think that when you stop fucking around and chasing skirts, and you find one that you really care about, I think (I hope) that it comes natural to treat her well. She's a lot more important to you than the others, so if you fuck around with her, then you deserve to lose her. Hopefully, you'll realize what you have the next time it comes around, if it ever does.
It's weird, for those of us who are unattached, but when you stop hunting around, and just let things happen, things happen. I just got together with a girl i've known for a while, but nothing in particular happened between us until the day before yesterday, I spent the whole day with her. I went over there as a friend who hadn't seen her for a while, but left that night really not wanting to leave. It took a darkened room and a sappy movie and a girl curled up on me for me to get the hint, I think, but I did. That's literally how it happened. I didn't push anything, when it happened, I responded. Guys are dumb, in that we're always looking for exactly what we want, like buying a car. And a lot of times, in my case especially, you're walk past a row of Corvettes looking for the red convertible, and you find it, but you realize that it only has a V-6, its an automatic, and only has an AM radio. Meanwhile, you passed up the white hardtop with a turbocharged TPI 350, 6-speed stick and leather seats. Cause that wasn't what you were looking for. I'm lucky, I think I have another crack at this girl, I'm not gonna fuck it up this time, I hope not. I have to go back to work now.