Her Guy Friend’s Casually Seeing A Woman Who Believed They Were “Basically” In A Relationship, So She Decided To Correct The Woman And Say That She “Maybe” Ranks As The Second Best Woman Her Friend Is Seeing Right Now
This 31-year-old woman and her close friend, Joey, both work at a horse breeding and horse training facility together.
For the last six years, she and Joey have lived at the house built on the property where they work, which is a perk of the job because they are able to live there for free.
The house is a bit out of date, but it’s huge, and some people would most likely classify it as a mansion. It has six bedrooms, four bathrooms, two master bedrooms, a pool, and a hot tub.
During horse show season, a lot of clients from out of town stay at the house, too, so the house essentially functions as a Bed & Breakfast.
She and Joey host these clients, cook, and entertain them during their stay, but they have a blast, which is why they’ve continued living in this house together for so many years.
Since she embraces her independence and doesn’t mind hanging out at home most of time, she doesn’t go out on dates too often.
Joey, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of her.
He has a lot of extra money to spend, and even though their jobs are draining, he lives like a typical bachelor whenever he can.
Usually, they play video games together at the house when they’re done with work.
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She considers Joey a good friend, and when he isn’t gone, they hang out all the time.
Joey has an account on basically every dating app out there, and he makes sure to be open with the women he goes out with that he’s not looking for a serious relationship.
“The issue is that he will occasionally have women he sees regularly, and they sometimes will get the impression things are progressing, and I usually start becoming someone they don’t like being around so much and start to ask why I live there. He is currently seeing four different women periodically, two of them quite regularly,” he said.
Even though all four of the women know that Joey doesn’t want to be exclusive, he’s not open with them about whether he’s seeing else, when he dates other women, or how many other women he’s seeing.
Instead of being clear and honest, he dodges the subject entirely.
Not long ago, one of these women, Kelly, 36, came over while Joey was working with a client in the barn on the property.
She welcomed Kelly into the house, got a drink for her, and asked if she wanted to watch TV with her while she waited for Joey to get done working.
“When we were talking, she started asking about my relationships and if I planned to ‘move out of Joey’s house.’ I’m assuming she worded it that way because Joey is the head trainer at the farm, so he is kind of the ‘star of the show.’ I’m the manager, so it’s a much less glamorous position (but I do make more than him),” she explained.
She explained to Kelly that the house was both hers and Joey’s, not only his house, and she wasn’t going to be moving out anytime soon.
Kelly expressed that she felt like it was strange for Joey, “at his age,” to be comfortable living with a woman while he was dating someone.
“I said, ‘He’s in a relationship?’ Her response was that it wasn’t official, but they pretty much were. I told her that was news to me. That seemed to offend her, and she said, ‘Well, maybe you don’t know because you aren’t the most important woman in his life. He doesn’t have to get your permission!’ I said, ‘You are right, he doesn’t. I actually don’t care. I’m just surprised because if I had to rank the chicks he is currently seeing, you are MAYBE #2,'” she shared.
Kelly didn’t take kindly to this, so she left.
Later, Kelly called Joey and told him she didn’t want to see him anymore.
When Joey talked to her about the situation, he said that he’d had no idea that he and Kelly were “‘basically in a relationship,'” adding that he was happy Kelly called things off with him.
Another one of their co-workers, who they consider a friend, weighed in and said that she was a jerk for what she said to Kelly.
However, she wasn’t happy that Kelly gave her the impression that she shouldn’t feel comfortable living in the house she’s been living in for the last six years.
Because of this, she felt obligated to clarify the reality of the situation for Kelly, and she was just being honest.
The only thing she said that wasn’t accurate was that Joey felt like Kelly would actually have been ranked as his #3 rather than #2.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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