recently I had a little heart-to-heart with Brother. not to be confused with Other Brother.
being the only two single-ready-to-mingles left in our family, the conversation naturally drifted to my favorite topic, relationships.
this resulted in Brother breaking things down into an analogy I can comprehend - cookies.
if you're at the grocery store. and there are cookies on the counter, you're going to eat those cookies until someone says something. at that point, you have two choices: pay for the cookies, or walk away.
he had to explain to me, that I am not the cookie-customer. in this story, I am the cookie lady.
the cookie-customer can walk around to different cookie counters and sample all sorts of cookies. but until the cookie lady asks him to pay, he gets free range of all the cookies.
but Brother, what if there are multiple cookie-customers at my cookie counter? what if the cookie-customers don't like that there are other cookie-customers eating the same cookies? or even looking at the same cookies? or even thinking about looking at the same cookies?
as the cookie lady, if you want them to pay, you have to ask. as soon as they start paying for those cookies, they are your only cookie-customer. but, they also might walk away. so keep that in mind before you ask them to pay.
yikes. thanks bro.
WWCBD?
