Couplely Relationships

Over the past couple days, I've gotten the opportunity to see some friends I have not seen in a while. It was delightful to catch up over dinners. Just like it always does with friends, conversation was so easy and flowed like there was no break in our relationships.

One of my friends was recently engaged and it was a pleasure having dinner with him and his fiancee. They complement each other very well and seems much happier than I had seen him in his previous relationship. the fiancee is a lovely girl too which makes it effortless to affirm their relationship; hopefully she likes me too!

Over the past few years, I realized that there are some couples that are easy to hang out with while others are much more uncomfortable. I don't know how I get myself into so many third-wheel situation, but I do it often; maybe it's due to the extended time I have under my belt as a bachelor. It's not only PDA (Public Display of Affection) that makes some couples awkward to be around, but some couples are just much more "couplely" than others when with others. It's definitely not 1's or 0's; there are several degrees of "couplely".

Some couples act like independent souls but their stories often line up (naturally); then you have couples that refuse to separate and are almost one entity (who almost always leave extremely early in the night). I guess it's all about the nature of the couple's relationship. It's more difficult and much more uncomfortable communicating with the "couplely" couples because it feels like you are intruding on their relationship. The less "couplely" couples are much more approachable most of the time.

Just to be clear, my friend and his fiancee are not the couplely type which made it very gratifying and dinner was very comfortable and took no effort. I just hope I won't be the extreme "couplely" type.