"andBegorrah: Are you there, God? It's me, Marketing."

@Bettiespork: Yikes! Well, she should let it out before she 'splodes. The dead animal she's sitting on would act as a fairly potent butt buffer, me thinx.

He's good-looking in a normal, good-looking model, sort of way. Not my type (yawn), but gotta give him that.

Wow... that body language is off-putting. I bet that even her ankles are crossed. Someone's having a day.

@Dancingfrog: Marriage works for some. Marriage doesn't work for others. Today's statistics reveal as much. I am no expert on the history of marriage, but I believe it started out with less of a romantic aspect than it's known for now. I feel that the romanticizing of marriage is sweet and all, but it could also be…

@tankearae: Maybe that was their way of warning you. You should thank them! ;-)

@sharkie792: "i get shit all the time about how i'm going to grow out of it, regret not having a wedding, etc."

Wow.. that's really interesting. I guess we can assume that this is the case for younger women too? If so.. I'd better get to lifting, 'cause I .. uh.. what was I saying?

@booboloo: I agree, it "should...", but I find that a fairly idealized view of reality. We're all works in progress, no? Growing, amending beliefs, changing desires, tending to wounds, etc. But.. if you do not change (and are with someone who will never change), have never been hurt, have never desired another while…

@booboloo: I'm curious. What does a positive relationship look like to you?

She's adorable. I have no problem with the makeup/dress/any of it. If she looked like this all of the time, that'd be one thing, but this was a special night. Definitely dress-up time.

@paperispatient: Yay! Sounds dreamy (hee). It's so nice when it works. In my previous LTR, we nearly always spooned ourselves to sleep. I loved it, but my current guy is more of an out-of-bed cuddler. He needs his personal bed space, and now I'm getting used to that.

@booboloo: Point?

@whynotshesaid: Ha ha.. definitely not. I don't even have a Tv, so we likely wouldn't have made it to a second date. And what a loss that would've been for me. ;-( A caveman couch potato who doesn't offer anything of substance to the relationship. Yawn.

@TurtleSpeak: Do you mean "have a relationship with a (gay) man" who likes to babble incessantly and beat dead horses? ;-)

@TurtleSpeak: Unfortunately, his friends are probably similar. Like attracts like, and I'm sure he's not alone. In his world, he's justified.

@paperispatient: Yes.. it's definitely a wonderful thing when you meld with a person in sleepy-time-land. I've had that experience as well. Now.. if I were to ever move in with my current boyf, well, I just like the idea of an option to sleep alone. I dig the considerations though. It does cost more to rent a 2…

What a fright.. to get into a relationship with a man who turns out to be a complete bore. The best part of a relationship is the communication part. Maybe he'll get that one day. At least I hope so, for the women he manages to snag in his web of "love".

@LVP: Ha ha! And I was thinking Michael Jackson.

@paperispatient: The old school idea of having separate bedrooms makes perfect sense to me. Meet up when you need some cuddling (ahem, and etc,) and back to your own bed for sprawling out, spread eagle, to fart, snore and drool as you so desire (not that we ladies do those things ;-)