Draw the !@#$ Line!

"You lead me on"...

With a jolt, I realise this is not the first time I heard this phrase. Nor do I expect this to be the last.

Weirdly deja vú, absurdly misunderstood.

So where do men and women actually draw the line?
What's acceptable as friendly behaviour and what is accepted as wanting-to-be-more-than-friends type of behavior?

It would have saved alot of trouble if there are similar standards in which men and women treat the matter. But then, life is never about distinct black and whites. Life is about the whole spectrum in between the extremes.

When I meet someone, I never talk about my own personal relationships. Sometimes its just that the topic is never brought up. Yet even when it is, I find that there's nothing much to gush about. I could get more enthusiastic talking about a chocolate chip cookie in a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Perhaps I'm stuck at this eternal state of being in a relationship, but wanting to not be in one that I often find people I meet interesting. Oftentimes, more interesting than my partner.

Just because I'm labelled as "Attached", does not mean I cannot meet new guy friends right?

And why is it that men, never want to be just friends? Must it always be more than friends or nothing at all?

Perhaps that is why, I seldom have individual guy friends.
My relationship with men are the only one that is either black or white, never in between, never just plain good friends. Not some who can talk and care about each other as an individual with dreams and hopes and nothing more.

No romantic interests involved. Is that too much to ask for?