I just went through the most interesting sort of...courtship?  I guess that's what one might call it.  A friend of mine I knew had been interested in me for a while, and over the past month or so we'd been spending more time together.  He's been a little shy about the whole idea of dating, cause just face it--a girl with a baby--kind of a scary situation for a guy to put himself into.  But he couldn't help being interested in me regardless of the situation.  So, over the last week or so, really just since friday I guess, he finally started actively showing interest.  This, because of his slight shyness, was incredibly subtle.  We were at our friends' house watching a movie.  They're married, and had been trying to get us to date for a while now.  But you just can't push that kind of thing, it has to happen on its own.  Anyway, he finally actually put his arm around me and held me while we were watching this movie with our overly cuddling married friends, and it was funny, because none of us vocally acknowledged that anything was going on.  And that's the way the whole thing progressed.  Through looks and silences, basically conversations with the eyes, and small gestures like a hand on the shoulder, it came down to hand holding and then tonight I had gone into the kitchen to get something for my best friend because she, being married and pregnant was feeling pretty icky, and I turned around and there he was and I looked up at him and he put his arms around me and pulled me close, and he seemed unsure at first but then he kissed me.  And so finally I had some proof that something really was happening between us.  For the rest of the time we were there it was just kind of understood between us basically that we were together, but I needed to hear it out loud.  So later after I went home and he went home, he called, and we chatted about various nonsense until finally I was like "so what's the deal?"  And he said "what do you mean?"  I said "us."  And he was like, "well it would seem we're together."  And I was like, "good.  That's what I thought."  And our married friends still haven't said anything about it, haha.  There needs to be a girl talk session soon.   I just think it's interesting how so much communication can go on between two people without words.  It's amazing how expressive eyes really are.  Strong eye contact.  Or quick glances meant to go unnoticed.  A touch of the shoulder here, a pat of the back there, a shy smile.  Silent conversation.  It was poetic really.  A beautiful thing.  People talk too much these days.  So much noise makes it difficult to truly communicate.  To know exactly what the other person is thinking without him ever explaining himself, and to know that he knows your thoughts just as well.  It's really cool.  I can't wait to talk to him again tomorrow.  He's SO easy to talk to, about anything.  Maybe it's got something to do with our approach to beginning a relationship.  An interesting thought...

Have any of you ever had entire conversations, or even days of conversations, that played out through silence?  Or maybe there would be plenty of conversation going on, while in silence you were having a totally different one?