There is a lyric I've been hearing a lot lately that's really stuck in my head. By the end of the song "Friends, Lovers, or Nothing", John Mayer says this: "Anything other than yes is no, anything other than stay is go, anything less than I love you is lying." After the first time I heard that, I thought for a long time. I thought about how very, very true those words are. People will just dance around what they really mean, so as to not hurt the feelings of others, but that only makes things worse. I think that being straight forward with someone and maybe hurting them a little, is ultimately less painful than letting it drag on. Because people invest so much into relationships over a long period of time, and a relationship can't be based on lies. You need to let people know where you are, what you want, and what you need. You need to be who are about things. I honestly don't know why people can't just be articulate. But then again, I do tend to mumble.