And now for something completely different...

[dizzyde]

Huge questions for you all...

I have been single (very happily) for a long, long time. Like, 12 years long. It was a conscious choice, and I have never felt it lacking in any way, have been completely fulfilled in being a mother/auntie/friend/sister and daughter. After my previous relationship experiences it was actually pretty blissful.

Not to say that any of that has changed, but my life is getting ready to start shifting dramatically and I have some big plans for my future. At this point, a relationship would really complicate that.

Here is the rub; I have two questions, and they are sincere, because I really don't know.

#1: is it possible for a (single) man and woman to be "just friends?"

#2: Is it crazy to contemplate a relationship that I have no intention of letting become long term or permanent?

I am driving myself crazy, and I have no one to bounce this stuff off of, because everyone I know (in real life) would freak out to even hear me discuss it...