Crazy Virgo: Couples Crush

Gentleman Lover and I have been together many years. We've lived in many places. So, we have a nice collection of "couples friends." Recently, I've realized that we sort of develop crushes on some of these friends. Is that weird? Are we to old for this? When I say "crush" I mean, giggling, blushing, heart-pattering, crushes. These are crushes in the fullest extent of the word. Like, we can't talk about them enough. Much to the dismay of whomever we're with.

CV: "Remember what (insert couples friend name here) said that one time? Wasn't that the funniest thing?"

GL: "Ya, that was awesome. And then, when we all (insert fun thing we did here that was probably embarrassing and/or illegal)? Man, I love those guys."

Eye roll of people we're with who are not involved in the conversation.

And, we look for every reason to hang out with them. Fabricating reasons like a traveling hundreds of miles for a football game, or we need to get warm in San Diego, or we owe them a bottle of wine for drinking all theirs. We spend evenings taking obscene amounts of pictures of these couples. Making elaborate plans to travel to Germany, or somewhere ridiculous together. Scheming ways to live in the same city or same neighborhood. Getting so drunk we can't get out of bed the next day because we want to be sure we have the greatest time possible with said couples friend. We make them CD mixes.

I mean, it's cute. Sort of. But it's also heartbreaking. Some of our crushes don't even live in the same city as we do. So, we get doses of affection, and then it's over. And, we're left pining away for them for months, doodling "Gentleman Lover & CrazyVirgo + (Couples Names) = Awesome couples friends forever."

Pathetic.