Just like Jade wasn't the type to cheat on her unfaithful husband despite repressed rage - until she felt "desired and 18 again" around a certain someone...
...or Maya was not the type to lust after men, period - until she crossed paths with a certain Tremolo...
...or like Cathy never felt comfortable mixing business with pleasure - until she felt even her students saw her as an attractive woman, and one of her students in particular...
...or like Bella was not the type to even masturbate, let alone kiss or get intimate with any man despite her husband being MIA and her marriage dead by all accounts - until a certain...
Yeah, by now I think the emerging pattern is self-evident
It's a festival of surprising firsts!
Whether or not Sage is in fact lying to herself in that regard, she definitively is one with great desire for a committed relationship - required mental gymnastics to rationalize being fuck buddies notwithstanding.