if you can't BBQ a decent steak, then we're gonna have issues.

Actually, HikingFitGuy (and anyone else who says kids are a repellant),

That's EXACTLY why I include pictures of me with my kids in my profile .

Because if a relationship grows from dating someone I've met online, eventually, they're going to meet my kids - and if they don't want to date someone with kids, or they don't want kids in their lives, they should know upfront that I have them

Thanks for your advice,, would like to get a few different points of view.

Having, for the first time in my life, just come out of such a relationship I don't believe it works. In the end, someone is going to get hurt because I don't believe it's "meaningless" sex at all. It's a coming together of two people who enjoy each other, respect each other, and care for each other, in other words........"making love".

The concept of "no strings" attached is not that black and white either......at least for me it wasn't when I realized I was starting to feel little pings of jealousy.....and I was the one who initally didn't want to "commit" to a full-time, long term relationship. In the end, he was the one to end the relationship when he said it was clear that we were looking for different things.

I had no idea it would be so painful when it ended..........Although we had promised to always be friends ............I don't know if that has been lost now and it saddens me deeply to think it may.

SlyKnight- I never said I was above that, or better than anyone else. My morals and my beliefs work for me and me alone. You choose to interpret it that way, not me and for your own reasons. I do think about sex, but it is not my first thought and often not my second or third. My instincts are there, but I dislike being lumped in just because I am a straight male. I didn't appreciate that (explitive deleted) trying to say that my way of thinking is just a come on.

Once you have established a fwb with a gentleman, is there a way to change that status without having to let go of him entirely? Lets all be real, someone always seems to have feelings at some point. Does that mean it's time to call it quits?

"fwb" = candycoating the antique term for "sportf***ing" ,,,,,,
Regardless what color you paint it if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, well you know,,,,,,,,,
fwb itself portrays he is probably more gigolo than "gentleman" and participation in the situation itself dictates the moral character of other parties involved.

He "aint' no gentlemen...fwb guys are just that....having all the benefits without any responsibilites. Yes, let's all be real...he is going on a free ride and your the ticket holder.

when u see neva married no kids
STEP AWAY
these are comittment phobes

So in summary wild sex is messy, expensive, dangerous, harmful, fun, passionate, extreme, illegal and totally undefinable?

I would avoid, Morticians, Prostitutes, Porn Stars, Rub and Tug technicians