What Kids Remember

Emily had often heard friends advising one another to be wary of a friends with benefits situations. 

"There is no such thing, as no strings attached. That is how you catch feelings,"

"The two of you fall into bed after telling each other that it is a no feelings type of situation. But three years later, somehow you are married. You've got kids and you are living in a house somewhere in a gated community that you always hated, because when you passed by. It looked like the people there had no fun and excitement in their lives…" Back then Emily had not really paid attention. Unable to think of herself in such a predicament.

But now, Emily was realizing that people who gave such warnings. Even if they were well intentioned, were very wrong.