It's Not You, It's...No, Wait, It's You

I have 3 old brothers, which often leads to problems in the dating scene. These brothers are pretty protective of me. Not like creepily protective, but they definitely have opinions on who I date. For this reason I haven’t mentioned dates/dating in probably close to 4 years (and I am only 22, so that is really saying somethin’). A couple of months ago, one brother actually asked me if I was a lesbian, in a whole “I am perfectly cool with it if you are, but go ahead and tell me…” way. Sorry, brother, not I.

So over Thanksgiving break when my good friend jokingly mentioned a guy as being more than a friend to me in front of one of the brothers, painful, merciless teasing and interrogation ensued.  This friend new EXACTLY what she was starting, and literally ran out of the house after saying it, yelling, “I love you! Don’t hate me!”

The worst part is my brother already suspected that I had more than a friendship with this guy after I had coffee with him the day before, so now he felt like he had proof. I spent more time than I would like trying to explain that, while this guy would have liked otherwise, we were, in fact, only friends. No real harm was done, but I was definitely annoyed.

Just another reason why I tend to be more private with those that I AM dating.