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the meantime girl

She’s the one you call when you’re bored or sometimes when you and your significant other had a fight because she makes you laugh. She’s the one you talk to when you’re feeling down because she’s willing to lend an ear and be a friend. She’s the one you spend time with between buddies, before you find “The One”. You know the one who hangs around in the meantime.

She’s too laidback, too easily amused by the same things your male buddies are amused by. She’s too understanding, too comfortable – she doesn’t make you feel nervous or excited the way a “real woman does. But she’s cool, nice, funny and attractive enough that when you’re lonely or horny and need an intimate female companionship, she’ll do just fine.

You don’t have to wine and dine her because she knows the real you already. She’s not easy, but you know that she cares about you and is attracted to you, and that she’ll give you the intimacy you need. And you know you don’t have to explain yourself or the situation, that she’ll be able to cope with the fact that this isn’t the beginning of a relationship or that there’s any possibility that you have any real romantic feelings for her.

It won’t bother that you would text her sometimes just to say not to text you because you’re with your girlfriend. She’s just sooo cool…why can’t all women be like that? But deep down, if you really think about it (which you probably don’t because to you, the situation between the two of you isn’t important enough to merit any real thought), you know that it’s really not fair. You know that although she would never say it, it hurts her to know that despite all her good points and all the fun you two have, you don’t think she’s good enough to spend any real time with.

Sure, it’s mostly her fault, because she doesn’t have to give in to your needs —- she could play the hard-to-get bitch like the rest of them does, if she really wanted to. But you and she both know that she probably couldn’t pull it off. Maybe she’s not really your type. Whatever the reason, somehow life has given her a lot of really great qualities but has left out the ones that men want (or think they want) in a woman.

She’s just too thoughtful. She’ll sometimes buy you things you need; she’ll sometimes buy you or cook midnight snacks for you and personally deliver it in your place. She wants to be special to someone, too. We all do. She has feelings. She has a heart. In fact, she probably has the bigger heart than any woman you’ve ever known because she’s had a front-row seat to The Mess That Is Your Life, and she likes you anyway. She obviously sees something worthwhile and redeeming in you because although you’ve given her nothing, absolutely no reason to still be around, she is. She’s just your convenient excuse to fool around.

(via email, 2001)

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    story of my life.
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    finallyseeing:dilaudid: kendraspear: lovebot: skysignal:...She’s the one you call when...
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    I’m getting huge jerk vibes from whomever wrote this.
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    the female Nice Guy, really. i used to be like this until i decided to grow a pair of ovaries and assert myself.
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    keeps popping up...when i thought i’ve fully moved on.
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    skysignal: She’s the one you call when you’re bored or sometimes when you and your significant other had a fight because...
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    i dont actually know how i feel about this, other than the fact that it maybe makes me want to go watch a chick flick....
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    That’s me too. Bad times.
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    She’s the one you call when you’re bored or sometimes when you and your significant other had a fight because she makes...
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    I’m all to familiar with this :|
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    I like this, brings something to mind. Fuck.
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    So true, even brought someone to mind .
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    OH HI, PERFECT DESCRIPTION. luzlulzulz.
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    :( reading this made me sad.
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    daamn, that’s wddup.
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    meantime girL haaaa wow ...... i hope this makes sense
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    from Pailin. Thanks!
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    this every day? Obviously
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    monsta: kimberlyjane:
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    Parang ako ata to ah. Lech.
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    (pearlsbeforeswine:staticquo:skysignal) Regards to the author, but I edited this to better fit my life - those who know...
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    She’s the one you call when you’re bored or sometimes when you and your significant other had a fight because she makes...
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    WAIT WAIT WAIT NOT YOU ASIANA! this was meant for that boy im so frustrated with. GOD IM SO SORRY! It really wasnt meant...
  102. lookfindfree reblogged this from thehippiegypsy and added:
    :O :O Sorrrrrrrrrryyyy.
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    I am sick of your bullshit.
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    wow, amaaazing. captured so many
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    Wow, couldn’t have written it better myself.
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    I can’t relate to this at all. *bangs head on table*
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    Hmm. Right thing to say in a wrong context.
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    Um, has someone been researching my life?
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    This made me cry.
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    - This saddens me… how much people bend over backwards for other people who don’t give a damn about them.
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    this makes me sick. because this is the story of tommy’s life. the boy i am working on getting over, starting today, FOR...
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    I am The Meantime Girl. She will always be me.
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    __________ Credits: srsly
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    Sometimes I feel like this girl. And I love my guy friends, but still…
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    these monthes i’ve been trying
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    laaraa:onemoretimewithfeeling:alohanico:skysignal:...me to every guy I speak to....
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    Laura, when did we write a book?
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    this goes out to a good friend of mine (you know who you are)…and also to me, as we have both recently discovered that...
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    One more time, with feeling!: the meantime girl
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    I’m the meantime girl now.
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    Yep, it’s all about balance.
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    Ladies, after crying over this, read about “The Meantime Boy.” It’s a slightly better perspective.
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    Goddamnit, thus is me for someone a couple people I know. No wonder why I can’t get a bf…
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    How fitting he starts up his old shinanigans and I find this tumblr post online. This all but depicts Douchebag’s and my...
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    Gosh, well this sounds all...myself in this. My fear is...a...
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    i can be quite forward myself, but for things like this, im pure chicken shit. but you are right, there really isnt...
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    Well, what I did was flat out tell him. I’m known for being a bit too ballsy at times. I just thought that I may not get...
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    totally the point..
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    yes but how do you express this to the person you no longer want to be “just the friend”
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    God, i hate you. i’m hopeful.
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    I wonder what happened to her?
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    :0 I wonder under what circumstance was the email sent.
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    owww. more incentive to stop reading his emails. it sounds less noble when you read it about someone else.
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    At first, this made me think of my best friend… And then I realized it’s not just her, it’s me, you, and every girl (and...
  234. jmsc reblogged this from lovebot and added:
    this is how i feel… i wish the person that this was meant for could read it.
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    Ugh…. hit close
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