Originally Posted by
basilandthyme
To be honest, my husband would never refer to someone from work as "my co-worker". He'd say "I'm giving George a lift home". Or "I'm giving Sally a lift home". Not only is it more transparent and personal, it's less letters to type! I don't know why you wouldn't refer to that person by name....I have to agree that it looks odd from the outside.
I also think it's odd that you chose to give a co-worker a lift home when you could have been with your girlfriend and getting ready to go out. Especially as your girlfriend had waited so long for you to finish work. Yes, I understand you had enough time to do both....and it was cold....but your girlfriend should be a higher priority than playing taxi service to a co-worker.
Alex - I read your post and thought 'no big deal' until I read this^. Which makes a lot of sense, actually.
You seem to be on the 'emotionally detached' side of the curve. Your GF clearly needs more (or different) from you than you can give her. Yes, her response was probably over the top and she does seem really picky, if not outright insecure about a lot of things (I'm remembering your other thread about the laundry detergent). So why keep this up? You two are obviously incompatible. Just break up. Is your ego so tied up with having a GF you can't let go when its obvious neither of you are making each other happy?
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh