Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-5624498-20190703010936/@comment-40137965-20190716025755

I think you are reading too much into it. I've been this "seventh wheel" in the group. Yes, I've felt loneliness creep up on me while the friends I was paired up with chatted away about some boy group and their "smexiness". I swear they forgot I was there until we hit the Disney teacup ride. I also been paired off with couples, notably when I had to chaperone one of my younger siblings dates. It's awkward being their with the google eyes, and kisses, but some stuff to embarrass them later. I've also been the one to ignore a friend when I start chatting up with a newer friend. It happens, it's not weird or defining someone as in a relationship. I can see how it may appear in our culture now as any small thing that could hint at romance is jumped on, but it isn't always the case.

One of my guy friends explained to me once that its a feeling of feeling lame and bizare being seen hanging around a group of single guys/girls in public. Especially if you're in a group where the other two, or four, are immersed in a topic you know nothing about, have no interest in (me with the boy group conversation), or they make you feel as if you are intruding on their friendship. It happens. Or you in the group with the one friend, or friends, that does a lot of embarrassing stuff so if they do something that is funny but no to you you may feel scarlet by association. Double points if its a popular dating place and one of your friends brings their partner. They're going to want to focus on their date, despite saying you can hang. Feeling like your intruding, or embarressed, and seeing all these couples makes you want somebody. According to him. Also according to him, your friend bring his date to your friend outing is like a rub it in your face moment. But he had just come off a bad break up and was in a mood when he ranted to me about his feelings, we got paired up because he wasn't really in the mood for the games and I wasn't feeling spectacular that day so we just hung out at the picnic tables while everyone else played flag football. But, I'm oversharing, it's not improbably Virgil could feel something akin to that.