Well I took all of your advice and we're back on track. It wasn't a bomb, it was just a firecracker.
We had an appointment with the bank yesterday, and it required a 90 minute commute...I thought, oh boy, is this going to be fun.
Fortunately I took delivery of my new Jeep yesterday, so we had something to 'small talk' about at first.
After 10 minutes, I simply said "Hey, it looks like I totally took what you said last night the wrong way. Just goes to show how email and phone conversations are nothing compared to face-to-face. Anyway, I apologize, and let's just pick up where we left off before this all happened - are you OK with that?"
She sounded relieved, and said that was great, let's get back on the path. We're two best friends, and we're hanging out and taking things slow and seeing where it goes.
"But" she said, "we must stop having sex...it is really messing up my head".
I agreed. So that takes the pressure off, and just lets us hang out, stay overnight, go on trips etc, with no romantic pressure.
So that was that. All good.
So I was going to drop her off at her place, but she invited me up, we killed a bottle of wine and talked some more - she asked if I would stay over, I said of course.
We went to bed, no sex, just a good night and good morning kiss, drank a pot of coffee, then I left and came home - and here I am.
So we are back on the best friends track, and I am OK with that, for now. After all, Stage 2 is friendship, and we really weren't ready for Stage 3, Romance quite yet. Stage 2 is the one we are supposed to linger in the longest, so that's what we'll do.
