I've become the 'back-up-plan'
I work with two people who have been in a relationship for years and years. Anyways, they're going through a bit of a bad patch...and I've been dragged in.

It all started with a simple text from Ms Y, a good friend and colleague - 'I told X i was with you yesterday. I wanted some time alone'. Okies, I thought, that's not so bad. I told her as long as I don’t have to outright lie myself, she could use my name. Big BIG mistake.

It became more and more regular, we have having a wonderful time in fictional land! Meals, huge shopping trips, even a weekend away (I was actually sat indoors in my PJs trying to finish FF9.) All through this, she’s becoming much more friendly with another male member of the workforce. All the while poor Mr X (who is a really lovely guy) is believing all her crap and is quite pleased for her, thinking all this new girlie quality time ‘will be just the thing she needs!’. Thing is, we get on well enough to actually talk to each other, so he asks me how our fictional trips have been! I'm a bad liar and a worse actress. A couple of times she tells me about our fictional trips well after the event, including twice when we were meant to be out for the day when I was actually near where he lives and could very well have been spotted. Why she just can’t say “I don’t want to be with you” is beyond me. I think she’s hoping that he’ll get fed up with not being able to spend any time with her and move on.

It'll all end in tears. Probably mine.

(Not that I can be the judge - I once managed to get a guy to dump me by refusing to go on holiday with him. That one was quite easy.)
(Mogg Questioned her own sanity on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:31, 3 replies)

Erm...
X squared?
Times Y?

Is it seven?
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:35, closed)

There is a term for this.
It's called "Bunburying".
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:56, closed)

Sleep with him
problem solved!
(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 18:31, closed)