1savvydiva,
Yep, I'm in Odenton...but only for a week longer. Brutha making that move to Bowie, MD. Finally getting into a house and getting out of renting.
Back to the topic: I think you're on to something. I can vouch for the fact that two single folks (man and woman) can't be just buddies for too long if there is a physical or mental attraction. That's just how human nature seems to operate...
And should one or more of the involved parties be committed to someone else, seems like grown folks would be able to keep their carnal desires at bay. If you want that brutha/sistah that bad, just turn out the lights, and have a Tweet-inspired "OOoops....Oh My!" episode. The friendship should take precedence over one's libido.
One thing that separates us from animals (yeah, yeah I know humans are animals too....anyway) is that we have a sense of responsibility and the ability to reason. Unfortunately, a great many of us have lapses in common sense, if not lack it altogether. But it just seems to me that two grown folks should be able to relate amicably regardless of the other's personal committment.
Aahh well, I guess the glass is half-empty on this one rather than half-full.
Why can't it be like the days when we were little ya'll?? John goes to Jane's house....uh, scratch that....Travion goes to Laquan's house and they play freeze tag, or red-light-green-light. And it was all good!! Such innonence....
But you know how the story goes after that: while playing hide and seek, they end up humpin in the woods. Then they kiss, and then they get to middle school and get mad at each other for cheating on the other (Why you give Kasheka a hug???), then they lose their virginity to each other on Prom night and then a year later they don't talk any more...... and it brings us all back to the question that started this whole thing.
Damn...
Well, I'm rambling now..... ROOOO