I wanted to write you a post about my honeymoon, the East African savannah, biological determinism and the meaning of life, but that proved too hard. So instead I’m going to write about … Gossip Girl.

Like many fans of the show, I’ve spent much of this year a quiet cheerleader (well, online at least - offline I’ve been quite vocal about it) for the burgeoning relationship between Dan and Blair for most of this year. Their wit. Their warmth. Their light banter. The fact that she didn’t routine stand him up Serena style and he didn’t commit domestic violence like Chuck did.

What can I say? I’m a sucker for a TV romance between a nerdy boy and a sassy girl (see also: Seth and Summer, The OC).

But increasingly, it looks like nothing is going to happen. The GG writers ship is being steering firmly towards Chuck Bass.

Over at Television Without Pity, my fellow Dair fans are aghast. Why would the writers invest all this time in foreshadowing this pairing if they had no plans to follow though? How tragic that two people with so much chemistry should never fully explore it.

But to that I say, isn’t that just life? Who among us hasn’t had a relationship that seemed so full of potential for a few days, weeks or months, but never quite blossomed into anything resembling an actual relationship? Who hasn’t left things unsaid, potential untapped? Unfulfilled romance may be annoying, but it’s also the stuff great stories (and flailing teen soap operas) are made of.

Then again, this is Gossip Girl, a show that has jumped around awkwardly from storyline to storyline for three seasons now (with only occasional glimpses of brilliance), so it’s entirely possible something will transpire between Dan and Blair after all.

Who knows? Maybe they’ll even live happily ever after.

Related: It’s the ambiguity, stupid.