Guys Like Me


Kasey


Josh told me about the whole thing Amy said about 'guys like you', about how they cut and run as soon as it goes one minute longer than they want it to go, how they like the flirtation better than the relationship itself, and I gotta say…I'm startin' to look more like one of those 'guys like you.'

Which makes it 'guys like me,' doesn't it? Or something like that.

The first element: Cut and run. Look at me and Lisa, I mean…Things were getting bad and I was starting to question and what happened? I ran to New Hampshire like she pointed out when she came back - I like to think it was her fault that we were over but it…it wasn't, really, it was…I mean it was both of us but a little bit more me, I'm thinking now, because I'm the one who left. I'm the one who just sorta…cut and ran.

And guys like me tend to like the wrong women - whether it be someone who isn't right for them just in general or whether it's someone those around me would find immoral, like a call girl, or whether it's my boss's wife or my boss's daughter…

But I don't mean to do things like that - I don't mean to like the wrong women or to run away, it's not a conscious thing, I don't do it because I try to be that guy, in fact I strongly dislike being that guy, I just…I dunno. It's something I'm not sure how to change and maybe if someone would teach me, but think about it: Who is around to teach me these things? Toby's divorced and so's Leo but I wouldn't go to him with something like that and Josh can't get women 'cause he's another 'guy like me' and I feel stupid asking Charlie - even though he's got Zoey…

And the whole thing…and I hadn't thought about it until Josh said it, but…the idea of liking the chase and the flirtation better than the relationship because that's how you know what to handle better…I think maybe subconsciously it is true. It certainly seems to be when you look at things like…well, my failed relationship with Mallory. I don't know the rules, it seems, I can be charming and pursue but once I start actually dating it's…And the job doesn't help any but it's not like that's the reason…It's 'cause I don't have enough sense about the relationship world and the rules of it and the fact that sometimes that has to go first, above work, and when you have to call and when you shouldn't call for a few days and when you don't call at all…

I don't understand all that, my theory is it's made up by women in secret clubs all across the country to torture guys like me.



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