The Third Wheel

When one plus two is a crowd...

I have recently just discovered that I am the third wheel in a relationship. Well, I actually realised it a little while ago but it's just dawned on me that I am still the third wheel.

I live with my best friend and her boyfriend who, you could say, is like my second best friend. So basically we're all quite good friends, but they are boyfriend and girlfriend, which I seem to forget easily when I just assume I'm coming to the movies with them on a Tuesday night and out for dinner with them on a Saturday night.

Well, of course, I would go, what else am I meant to do?!

I have just started to realise, however, that this is perhaps becoming a little too much and that they are being way too nice to me by not saying anything. Secretly, I think they would probably love to tell me to "ease up".

I brought this to their attention the other to get their thoughts. They have assured me they don't mind and that they wouldn't even think of me as "the third wheel" in their relationship. But I think they may be lying, even if just slightly.

I am now conscious of this situation and am not allowing myself to participate in everything they have planned from weeknights to weekends. Trust me, I'm not a loser, I just enjoy their company that's all. Honestly.

Who knows, this plan may even improve their relationship and prove to them that they really do enjoy spending time with each other. By themselves. Just the two of them. I hope so anyway.

Maybe I should just go and find a boyfriend for myself, then I definitely wouldn't be classified as a third wheel, ever. But that's easier said than done, isn't it?