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Thread: Tolerance with age?
hearttune
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Tolerance with age?
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11/12/2009 3:51:55 PM
^^^That's well put, methinks.
hearttune
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What a man over 45 looks for in a relationship.
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11/12/2009 2:50:09 PM
Besides, "Stud", tell me what names a man is called when acting like a man regarding sex.
A player, creep, pig, man-whore, skirt chaser, etc...
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/12/2009 2:40:44 PM
Really ,I thought it would be this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4
Good one. I just have a personal preference for "Green Day". That's all.
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise...
Encore!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwd-Kn1RKiE
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 9:39:09 PM
Well it's time to read and crash. Because this thread is about libido, and most of us are single now, I think it's fitting to leave it with one of the great masturbation songs of the last quarter century.
Hit it, Billy Joe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNdS77YNkAY
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 9:20:53 PM
I think Mastery is part of it, but there is so much more...it is simply who someone is...we wear our lives now...the smile lines, the thought wrinkles...our eyes have a depth to them, it is a complete different ballgame than before, the mental challenges two people can have with so much life experience between them means to me an opportunity to conquer the world together!
Well said, my dear. Enriched character. Very good. I think the challenge is to come fresh to a new situation at this point. Honestly speaking, I feel I may have only one more lover left in me that's new. I could be wrong, but that's what my heart is telling me now. It may very well die in utero. Time will tell. I still feel there's something nobody's got before. I guess you don't want to blow it on the wrong person if such be the case. I don't know.
rearguard's cool.
hearttune
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Shaving or trimming your privates at our age?
Posted:
11/11/2009 9:04:48 PM
wait--i'll take the banana
you can have the split
With a fine Chianti.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 9:03:01 PM
Just what was it again, that makes someone over 45 (or 50 in this case) so sexy and hot?
Mastery. What else?
hearttune
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Shaving or trimming your privates at our age?
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11/11/2009 8:42:26 PM
If the banana "floats your boat" LOL
A rising tide lifts all rogues.
hearttune
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Shaving or trimming your privates at our age?
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11/11/2009 8:32:36 PM
Thank you. I'm finally starting to catch on. I am now ready for it to be wheeled in on a dessert tray. I'll take the banana split.
hearttune
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Shaving or trimming your privates at our age?
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11/11/2009 8:18:01 PM
Come on now. I'm a novice at this. I need some before and after pictures. An illustrated manual.
hearttune
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Did you think life would be like this at 50?
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11/11/2009 8:05:13 PM
How can I possibly be 50? How did this happen? I'm one of those old people now, one of those people who were at least ten eternities removed from me when I was a teenager. I thought old people were just born old back then. And young people stayed that way. I was misled. I didn't sign up for this. I was just in grad school in my earlier 30's a few weeks ago. I swear it. Someone's going to pay for this.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 5:52:29 PM
I really like how you verbalized that Hearttune, unlike some others who "pre-plan" and have written the script, I can relate more to feeling swept down the river, without pre-planning... yet knowing there's a choice, going with the flow... you described that feeling very well.
It's strange how choice and fate can become one and the same thing, mysteriously intersect like that. You're oddly ready, and you're not at the same time, at least if you're not forcing the issue. Such a thing has almost always been something akin to a little secular miracle to me. I guess you'd call that the romantic in me.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 5:36:23 PM
I never exactly knew when sex was going to happen. It always seemed to approach resolutely, of its own accord, like an inevitability. It was as if either gradually or suddenly, depending upon the person and the circumstance, I became aware of and privy to some mysterious script that had already been written; and there I awoke within it, and found myself cast in the leading role.
This may sound something like fate, but fate has always been a strange concept to me. I never believe in it until it happens.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 4:48:11 PM
Or libido in the shower.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/11/2009 4:39:09 PM
Daily showers? I'm not officially up in the morning till I shower.
hearttune
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What a man over 45 looks for in a relationship.
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11/11/2009 10:59:21 AM
whew! Sounds like one mighty powerful "relationship"--yipes
No kidding. I'm trying to imagine what those turbo thighs might do when they were wrapped around me.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/10/2009 8:03:24 PM
...Took your advice, just spotted a little something just perfect for the holiday season....
Good for you, girl. Santa's helper, hey.
It's a fun site/store. They give good layout. It's a little weak in some areas, like leather and plus-sized lingerie.
For plus-sized you want to try out something like "Hips and Curves". I think I bought a pink babydoll from them once years ago. I believe I was into my slow tantalizingly thorough defilement of all that's pure and sacred mode at the time. It was early in a relationship. It's all good.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/10/2009 6:45:23 PM
....I thought things were about to change for me....my horoscope said that November was going to be a special month for romance...so I went out and bought some sexy new underwear....just in case. I later discovered I was reading a magazine from 2002.
Have some fun. Go to something like "3 Wishes" on the internet. You might find that you make for a helluva French Maid.
hearttune
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Libido after 50
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11/10/2009 6:29:59 PM
...Hmmm, that's interesting. So tell me, what sorts of things inspire you and how far is Tacoma?
Well I didn't mean like in an hour or two. LOL I mean, foreplay does rule. More like spending a day together, or a long night.
What inspires me? I really like someone, and they really like me. I'm really attracted to them, and they're really attracted to me. They click into my hottest erotic zone, and I click into theirs. Pretty simple, really.
Tacoma is as far as you make it to be. LOL
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/9/2009 7:06:02 AM
I certainly wasn't commenting on you specifically when I made my last post.
But, if you don't want people to know your business, or comment on it, perhaps you should just quit posting it on a public forum.
No. I rather prefer to put judgmental twits in their place one twit at a time. It's a public forum. I have my role to play :)
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/8/2009 9:34:35 PM
There may very well be a reason he's living with his ex.
But, perhaps these people, who still live with their exes, should take care of these reasons, before they start seeking relationships with new people.
But perhaps people should just mind their own business.
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/8/2009 3:15:41 PM
^^^We disagree. Let's leave it at that. I'm okay with that. What works for you, works for you, and what works for me, works for me. Let's let people live how they see fit, without imposing our own perspectives upon them.
Fair enough?
Down there:
IMO it's pretty easy to spot the separated people who really are emotionally together, dealing with the separation well, and genuinely ready for something new. There just aren't a whole lot of 'em.
I would tend to agree with you. I think you're right about this. There was a time not too long ago when I was separated but not ready to pursue anything with anyone as of yet if it had come my way (I wasn't looking). I knew this. That time has passed. I'm just caught in a trick situation now (bothe me and my "wife"). I'm still not actively "looking", but I'm not going to turn love from my door if it should knock.
That's all.
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/8/2009 3:05:20 PM
There is baggage and there is history, we aren't talking about history when the divorce hasn't taken place and they are still doing things as a married couple. The marriage hasn't ended period.
My point is that I can get just as "picky" as you can about what constitutes baggage. I'll do it right now. A marriage isn't over just because a piece of paper says it is. You can try to parse this distinction between baggage and history all you want. They don't seem any different to me. Are you trying to say that any true love that might blossom between a separated person rather than a divorced person isn't "real" because such a person doesn't have a piece of paper by the state validating such a love? Sounds pretty preposterous to me.
On another note, I've known single and divorced people who have a hell of a lot more baggage/history to contend with than I do. LOL
Period!
hearttune
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Impatient in meeting
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11/8/2009 2:53:31 PM
I rather thought the purpose of going out was to get to know someone...
I know when I meet a person if they are a fit for me and women know the same. I get maybe one in ten that I actually get a second date with so I want the nine of you out of the way so I can get number ten and see if there is something there. We are not trying to be jerks although I'm sure some guys want to see how fast they can get laid but I want to get to the one there is a chance with. I am not getting any younger or better looking so I am driven to find what I want and I am not letting a time waster stand in my way.
Both of these posts are very honest and reasonable reasons why men oftentimes want to get to the meet-and-greet stage of things sooner rather than later. Not all men who feel this way are trolling-for-sex-jerks, or as heedlessly pushy as some women are making them out to be. I think it's good for women to keep this in mind, instead of just typecasting all men a certain way just because they see the true importance of a face-to-face meeting.
How refreshing it is when I hear a woman poster acknowledging this perspective as being perfectly reasonable, even if such a perspective might not precisely fit her own perspectives and manners of going about such things. It doesn't always have to be so contentious. Don't we all want acceptance and understanding?
I know it's not many women's fault on the site, but the fact is that a lot of women waste a lot of men's time on this site, decent men's time. As a general rule, women hold the most power on such a site, as they receive a whole lot more responses to their ads than the other way around. Men know this. It's no secret. Women can afford to be more patient than men. There's another man waiting for her in her inbox. Men have had to adapt to this reality.
Again, generally speaking, if a decent man really likes what he sees and hears of a woman, he wants to find out about her in person, he wants to distinguish himself from all the other men crowding in upon her on the site. He wants to know ASAP if something is there between him and her, or not. Time's a wasting. He wants to know if he's being "played", or not. He wants such a woman to have the opportunity to see and hear from him person, to find out for HERSELF what he's all about, before she finds some reason in her mind to not give herself this chance.
Such a thing really shouldn't be that difficult to understand, to empathize with. It makes perfect sense to me.
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/8/2009 11:16:56 AM
This still is baggage. Though there is sound reasoning behind such baggage, it is still there.
There's ALWAYS baggage there. It's a complete fallacy to think that any relationship begins from zero. It matters not whether you're married, separated, divorced, or single. You're always bringing the past with you into the next relationship. It's part of who you are.
Do you think, for instance, that a situation suddenly changes if you get divorced when you have children, that the other parent isn't ALWAYS going to be in the picture? That's baggage. It doesn't change just because a piece of paper tells you it's different now.
I don't get this perfect world that some people believe in around here. LOL
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/7/2009 9:23:46 PM
Yeah you know where some people's priorities are when they start with a laundry list of why they aren't divorced. The bottom line is they aren't ready to be divorced, they have way too much baggage!
Oh you mean like I want my stepson (her son) to get the operation he needs, and my soon to be ex-wife to get as much money as possible when our divorce is finalized because in spite of the fact that we're getting a divorce, I care about her.
Hip-hip-hooray! For all the women revolutionaries.
hearttune
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Whats the problem with long hair on a guy ?
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11/7/2009 9:17:26 PM
Male pony-tailers unite!
hearttune
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How much contact is too much?
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11/7/2009 8:11:47 PM
I am so sick of all these silly do this, don't do that, say this, but never say that. FFS, it's simple human interactions, not splitting the damn atom. PFT.
Boy do I hear you. Loud and clear. I have a hard enough time dealing with my own passions and emotional proclivities without having to listen to the super-ego of dos and don'ts. It's about refining and trusting and risking your own instincts and intuitions born of your own experience. To get to that point, you actually have to live your own life. Fancy that!
hearttune
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separated but still living together... to believe or not
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11/7/2009 7:00:10 PM
I think it's entirely up to the person. You can judge it for yourself and your own life, but it's a waste of time trying to make such judgments about other peoples situations. Just grandstanding. Whoopee! Look at how right I am!
I'm in the separated category. I haven't been intimate with my wife in what will soon be approaching two years. We've gone through all the emotional pain of such a split. We've even reached a new level of care and respect for each other, though have zero intention of getting back together. We've been openly separated for about a year and a half. We've worked through all the financial/commodity stuff to the T.
Guess what though? We have a home and 6 acres of unique property that needs to be sold, and we need the housing market to stabilize and begin to improve to sell out of an already small market for our home and property. A TON is at stake for both of us. There was also an insurance/operation that needed to be taken care of this fall for my stepson on my insurance policy.
Do I stop living my life? Do I not pursue love if it should knock on my door?
I'm fine with the notion of people not wanting to get themselves involved with such a situation. By all means live by your own behavioral codes. But don't be so pretentious as to suggest that such behavioral codes apply to me.
hearttune
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Impatient in meeting
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11/7/2009 6:18:55 PM
My life is not revolving around dating, and there are other things going on in my life.
Hello! A lot of men feel just the same way. That's why they don't want to waste so much of their time if it's not going to go anywhere.
hearttune
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Impatient in meeting
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11/7/2009 6:14:23 PM
There's a great gender divide reading some of the more insightful posts on both sides of the divide. Women would do well to listen to what some men are saying in this thread, especially early on in the thread. Meeting a woman in person is oftentimes the only way a man in the internet dating game can begin to establish any kind of effective exclusivity with a woman. It's making the woman risk something of herself on him.
How many men will tell you that they contacted women on the site, that they seemed to have established some kind of a positive connection with them, only to have such women back off/slink away for no discernible reason before ever having a chance to meet her in person? Raise your hands men. See them all ladies?
The fact of the matter is that many such potentially interesting women on such a site are constantly getting their mailboxes barraged by responses to their ads from men. How is a man to distinguish himself from these other men without meeting such a woman in person?
I'm a man who would be just fine taking it slower, writing back and forth a bit before pushing for a meeting. But the fact is that I learned my lesson. I'm sure that I'm not only man to have done so. Sometimes the only recourse a reasonable thinking man has to contend with this phenomenon is to seek out a face-to-face meeting with such women. He'd almost be a fool not to. It's the nature of the beast.
Of course there are exceptions to this prevailing general rule, and there have been a decent share of successful romantic ventures that took root at such a slower, perhaps more comfortable pace. But they are the exceptions. Period.
hearttune
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Shaving or trimming your privates at our age?
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11/7/2009 11:59:37 AM
On Men:
I suppose if the man is naturally hairless on his legs and torso, shaving pubs could be okay, but men... if you have hair everywhere, it makes you look strange to have one Bald area on your body. The penis is already a ridiculous enough looking appendage without doing that sort of thing to the poor thing.
Yeah, I would think that might look kind of strange if you were a man who was just genetically hairier all over, especially if you were darker haired. I suppose if you wanted to create a real bulls-eye effect that would certainly do the trick.
This seems to me to be one of those generational things, like text messaging. When I was growing up, men who shaved other than their faces, or trimming their ear hair or eyebrows, were usually on the swim team, or basketball players who shaved their lower legs for taping. I wonder when it was that men shaving below the neck became more of a commonplace past time? Late 80's early 90's?
I think it mostly passed me by, then got married, and stay married for a good stretch of years. It just never came up as an issue for my wife and I. I probably would have had my wife wanted me to. No biggie, other than it would just have been another grooming task to add to the list behind bathing, face shaving, flossing, teeth brushing, etc...
Being a free-agent again, what the hell. I wouldn't do it unless I was seriously dating someone though. It's not like I walk around naked in public all day.
hearttune
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Friend vs. Lover?
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11/6/2009 12:30:45 AM
Try finding out if you really like her before getting in her panties. Nothing more to it than that, really.
hearttune
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What a man over 45 looks for in a relationship.
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11/5/2009 10:04:02 PM
By the way, Guns & Roses circa 1986-1987 before Axl made a mountain of dysfunction out of his personal neuroses in his own peculiar diva-like way...were effing AWESOME! I'm drinking on a Thursday night (rarity), and boy does Appetite For Destruction sound as good as ever. Fresh as a daisy.
I mean, just check this shyt out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcIM_PL8BAA
hearttune
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What a man over 45 looks for in a relationship.
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11/5/2009 9:52:24 PM
I look for inspiration. For reason to live. What else?
hearttune
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Trust and Autonomy in a relationship
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11/5/2009 8:06:47 PM
Just keep honing your intuitive skills. There's no other recourse.
hearttune
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how to slow the pace to make it real
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11/5/2009 11:48:46 AM
Hmmm.....how nice it is to actually have someone digging on you like that, someone it seems that you really like. It's impossible for me to say much about this, as what goes on between two people on the intimate level is hard to get to the bottom of from the outside looking in.
It sounds like you've really engaged, inspired and enthused his heart. In that sense, you have tremendous power and control over HIM now. It seems that therein lies the rub for you. You have to exercise that power you have over his heart now, but you don't want to do it in such a way that he gets the wrong idea. You don't want to hurt him, have him close off his heart, but rather to open up more dimensions of it, to see parts of your heart which you know it will take longer to see. Tricky.
I'm sure you'll figure it out. I don't know. Maybe just tell him that you're a little scared of going too fast right now. That seems a pretty benign way of asserting yourself.
hearttune
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Promiscuity ~~ Pros and Cons
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11/3/2009 10:20:01 PM
Self respect is overrated.
hearttune
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What's the upside to being over 50 and single
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11/2/2009 5:20:03 PM
The best thing about being over 50 and single...I have the chance to met that special someone and the knowledge of all my prior mistakes and lifes experiences to make sure that the life we will have together will be a good long happy one!
Quit being so reasonable, sweet and hopeful. There's no place for that around here.
hearttune
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Dating a couple people but not having sex at our age
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11/2/2009 5:14:31 PM
The most casual sex I've ever had is with myself,,,
LOL Yeah, I oftentimes pick myself up in the sleeziest of places, with the worst intentions, carry on in the most ill advised of ways, and dump myself when it's over like a cheap whore.
hearttune
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Dating a couple people but not having sex at our age
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11/2/2009 4:51:04 PM
I think that is what most men feel too...they dont want a woman who feels she gotta...they want a woman who wannas....they want someone who finds them attractive and wants to with them, not with everyone.
Not saying that all the guys who are out there arent old horn dogs ...they still exist along with the women who find that sorta of man attractive....the online world is so big that it is easy to get lost in it and think that only sort of person exist...but it is just that one type that is open to self promotion...ie the horn dog old men and the women who have no desire to have sex again...the rest of us get to watch the fireworks when they meet.
The internet dating thing is just plain weird. Let's face it. A different animal. I think the impersonal nature of it tends to exaggerate the worst behaviors and fears in both of the sexes. It's the decent people on both sides of the gender divide who end up getting burned from it the most.
I can't even fathom wanting to get intimate with a woman who didn't "wanna" with me. I'm just not programmed that way. A foreign concept to me. And in almost all cases, if a woman wants me too fast without me having the feeling that she's connecting up with a lot of what's inside of me, then I'm just as likely to not wanna.
You've just got to listen to your own heart, draw from your own experience. There's no rules for me going into it. That's the mystery and the excitement of it to me.
hearttune
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Dating a couple people but not having sex at our age
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11/2/2009 4:16:09 PM
^^^Good for you. You should never feel that you "gotta". What an awful thing. You should feel like you "wanna".
hearttune
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Dating a couple people but not having sex at our age
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11/2/2009 1:45:04 PM
I am so very sorry to hear that.
There's no reason to be "sorry" for me about that. I would venture to guess that such is the case with most people, everybody who isn't lying, that is. You mean married couples, or long term couples don't have "casual sex" within their relationships? I must be living on a different planet. LOL
I can only respond to the above as follows.. At our age their will be some rough roads ahead.. Our bodies will eventually breakdown and will unfortunately fail us in time. You will know who truly loves you by those that gather round your bedside to say their last goodbyes.. Because those bonds of understanding and trust and affection are forged and are not dependent on if you have sex or not.
One last thing to think about is why the most casual sex you have had in the past was in longer term relationships.. So where do you go from there keep it short and sweet so as not to repeat the beat?
I was going to give you a more lengthy response, but I decided that you obviously just missed the point of what I was saying. Why bother.
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Dating a couple people but not having sex at our age
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11/2/2009 12:02:30 PM
Personally speaking, the vast majority of times that I have begun to be sexually intimate with someone I would not describe it as having been "casual". Others might, from the outside looking in, but not me. That wasn't my experience of them from the inside out. And that's all that really matters to me in the end.
By far the most "casual sex" that I've had in my life has been the sex that I've had within longer term relationships. Ironic when you think about it. In a certain sense, given this reality of mine, I guess you could say that it may be at least as important for me to know if someone has longer term potential for me inside the bedroom as it is to know if they have longer term potential for me outside the bedroom. Just another way of looking at it.
I just find it difficult to prioritize this inside the bedroom/outside the bedroom thing. And it's not merely about the actual sex-of-it inside the bedroom. There are intimate bonds of understanding, trust and affection that are potentially forged as two people become sexually involved with each other, ones that potentially extend far beyond the bedroom door.
It's really a chicken-or-the-egg thing to me.
hearttune
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Love,Quality of life and who pays
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11/1/2009 8:01:47 PM
Now if you're dating better... wouldn't that mean he is dating below?
OOPS! Now you just had to go and say it, did you now?
hearttune
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Would dysfunctional family members be a deal breaker for you?
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11/1/2009 7:43:14 PM
My feelings about this issue is that no adult is beholden to their brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers if they are not deserving of it, if such family members are abusive towards their blood relationships. I don't believe in that "blood-guilt" trip that family members are capable of pulling on you, as if you HAVE to maintain a relationship with them, as if they are ENTITLED to a relationship with you.
I have two sisters and one brother. I have a good relationship with my brother, and a very strong relationship with one of my sisters. My other sister I have NO relationship with, and have no desire for one. She's a mean spirited, vindictive person who did nothing but make me and my family miserable whenever we were with her. I finally said enough. Done! My brother and other sister know that I will not be with her. Period. The quality of my life has been a little bit better since I made such a decision years ago. No regrets, nor will I have any regrets in the future.
You are beholden to your children until they are adults. That's it. And it's certainly nice when your parents and siblings remain friends with you. It's great to have such friends that you've known for so long. But there's nothing at all wrong with cutting such ties as an adult if such relationships have proven to be destructive.
hearttune
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Love,Quality of life and who pays
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11/1/2009 5:29:04 PM
There are those women though that find it very important to be a stay at home mom and wife. I can understand this very easily as well, as I had two children. With the way the world is today and the knowledge our children need to have. Parents need to be a MAJOR role player in their lives. In this case, yes it would be very important that a man make enough money to support the family.
This is true. Somehow children again got left out of the equation. Aren't we adults yet? I would think a woman would want a man whom she felt confident could sustain in meeting the needs of a family, contribute to making a good life for a family. Children's lives are at stake.
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So.... remind me... What's the downside of 50 and single...???
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11/1/2009 9:15:02 AM
The downside is the degree to which you want to be anything but single.
hearttune
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Divorced for 10 years and still wearing the wedding band
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11/1/2009 12:27:31 AM
She might want to try a little vaseline. That might help.
hearttune
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What's the upside to being over 50 and single
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10/31/2009 11:01:33 PM
Just read the forums.
I just hit 50. The upside of being single is that you can do most whatever you want without having to consider another in your thought processes. I think most everything else positive is a derivative of that.
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