I’ve been overhearing Johnnie’s conversation with her bff, and sometimes I participate in the conversation but it’s getting frustrating.  I admire Johnnie for being able to mostly sit back and listen and watch her bff be stupid, sorry for the word but even the bff knows this. So she has just broken up with her gf of 7 years, the gf happens to be a friend of mine from high school. Then, supposedly, she met this girl and fell in love. The honey moon stages, nothing can beat that feeling. But this new girl has exes that she keeps afloat in her life, because she’s supposedly struggling with her faith, and one of the exes work for her so she doesn’t want to hurt this ex. It’s complicated as it is. Then she has this guy ex who came home for vacation, and she goes out of town with him but it’s plainly platonic. She went on that trip with him for the weekend to tell him that there is no chance they would get back together. I couldn’t understand why that conversation couldn’t take place over coffee? But that’s just me. So where does this leave bff, you ask? She is technically the other woman, although her grand gestures made bff believe it must be something special, what they have. She had flight attendance give her a bouquet of flowers in flight from this new girl. That has to be exciting, for someone who just got out of a boring, routinary 7-year relationship. Anyway, so the part that frustrates me is that this new girl is the same age as I am, old enough to not be playing games like this one anymore. And bff is a couple of years younger but also old enough to be able to spot bullshit like this from a mile away. But she’s completely blinded and this new girl has her wrapped around her fingers. She is able to make bff believe it is love, even though she clearly wants to have all 3 (or even more, who knows) in her life. And when bff finally had the courage to say she deserved better and is leaving, as predicted she had other tactics up her sleeve that made it seem like bff gave up on them when she is doing everything she can to fix her situation, and so she feels betrayed and so fine, she’s done with bff, too. So now bff is the one chasing after her, wanting to ‘fix’ it. She even booked a ticket to come home, fantasizing the new girl would show up at the airport like in the movies. I feel sorry for her, but I don’t judge her because I’ve been there. It’s just not a pretty situation to be in, but I want to kick new girl’s ass for dragging bff into this mess. But love makes us blind.