Ex girlfriend situation??? ehhh?
So my gf and I broke up a few years ago for no real reason except that we were pretty much too young for dating. Neither of us has dated anyone since, just random "hookups" along the way (we're in college..). I always thought I'd marry this girl but that's pretty much just remained in the back of my head and I don't talk about it (let life go along ya know?). Recently she wanted to pretend we're married and now we'll casually refer to each other as husband and wife. Today she was like "we should get a pet". I'm just kind of wondering what's going on here. I'm 19 so obviously it'll be a while til I get married. Part of me thinks she just doesn't want me to disappear (we go to different schools), and I'm studying to be an astronaut, so chances are I'm gonna be far from here when I graduate. I just wondered if anyone knows the psychology behind a girl doing this sort of thing and how I should handle it to not piss her off by taking it seriously, or on the other end of the spectrum, giving false hopes by going along but not taking it seriously.
as a side note, i'm not looking into this like crazy even though my question is so long. i'm mostly just curious
So my gf and I broke up a few years ago for no real reason except that we were pretty much too young for dating. Neither of us has dated anyone since, just random "hookups" along the way (we're in college..). I always thought I'd marry this girl but that's pretty much just remained in the back of my head and I don't talk about it (let life go along ya know?). Recently she wanted to pretend we're married and now we'll casually refer to each other as husband and wife. Today she was like "we should get a pet". I'm just kind of wondering what's going on here. I'm 19 so obviously it'll be a while til I get married. Part of me thinks she just doesn't want me to disappear (we go to different schools), and I'm studying to be an astronaut, so chances are I'm gonna be far from here when I graduate. I just wondered if anyone knows the psychology behind a girl doing this sort of thing and how I should handle it to not piss her off by taking it seriously, or on the other end of the spectrum, giving false hopes by going along but not taking it seriously.
as a side note, i'm not looking into this like crazy even though my question is so long. i'm mostly just curious