Virtual Boy Friend: The Untold Story.....

He had dark circles,gloomy eyes, dried lips,was drowsy through out the day, basically it was evident that for the past few nights he hadnt had a good sleep. I asked him whats wrong? "Nothing", he said, "just been talking to my girlfriend late through the night."

His 'girlfriend' had moved to a country of a different timezone. So for her, it was no change. She would come back from office and call her Virtual Boy Friend who would be in deep sleep. And so he talked to her throughout the night and sometimes into early mornings. Hours of mindless chitchat that is not uncommon between a girl and her VBF.

So you must be thinking why am I putting 'Virtual' in front of the word 'boy friend'. Lets take the above situation, here the VBF under scanner is Theodre Sebastian, we will call him 'Teddy' for short and his 'girlfriend' is Padmini D'Souza, lets call her 'Peddy' for short.

Now, the kind of relationship these two are in, is a strange one. Both of them like each other but are scared to commit to each other. Both of them are 'looking out' for better stuff. Both of them know that the other one is not serious about anything. But still they talk to each other hours together, day in day out, buy gifts for each other. You may say that they are just being good friends, which I dont agree to. Teddy and Peddy have lot of other friends from the oppsite sex but they dont indulge in the late night talks and romantic conversations. So in my view they are more than just 'friends'.

Peddy projects Teddy as her boyfriend to all her friends(girls), in order to look 'cool'. She talks to him all the time and talks about him all the time in front of them. I am not sure why Teddy has to entertain such late night calls. What does he get out of it? Nothing but the dark circles under his eyes.

Peddy on the other hand can while away time whenever she is bored by talking to Teddy and giving him hopes of a long term relationship. The moment Peddy gets a good 'proposal' she will tell Teddy, am getting married, for which Teddy expresses shock. But then Peddy says the usual stuff, we are just friends, I never saw you from that point of view, it is not going to work out,blah,blah.......

And so Teddy ends up being a VBF for Peddy, who then lives happily everafter. If you are wondering what will happen to Teddy, he must have learnt a lesson from this, and started looking for a 'workable' relationship, hope its not too late for him.......

PS: The real names have been changed in order to protect the subjects' identities.