Thank you all. Looks like the change is in favour.
Mark
Mark has kindly changed my moniker from h256 to happybeing which I like more, and is more memorable I think. Also more descriptive of me!
To help anyone who can't remember h256 anyway, I won't change my melony avatar, for a while at least :P
Best wishes,
Mark
dargento - either you're taking over this thread too or I'm getting double vision from searching for g-spots - omg, i'm getting g-spots before the eyes
;-)
Mark xx
Hi Helen,
Gosh you are great organising these doos. I might come, might bring someone (Gilly) too. Sorry to be so vague.. but pls pm details.
ta
Mark x
Hi Helen,
Please add me if you still have space. It was nice to meet you at Rios on Saturday, even if we don't know how I recognised you!
Mark x
This was my first social and also first visit to Rios and I enjoyed it on both counts. I've only been to Raqs (in Walthamstow) before and so to see a plusher venue was nice (although the playrooms downstairs were a bit pokey and basic (and empty!) ).
To all I said hello or chatted too - it was great to meet you. And those I didn't - was there anyone? - doh! Hope to chat next time!
Thanks Sarah. I'm sorry Gilly didn't turn up. I hear your reasons for why this is such a pain. Maybe if I get more into S&M I can bring her on a lead next time. Hmm... Oh yes, err...
Happy times to all, Mark xxx
I was only 18months old when mine was done. I'm told it bloody hurt and I wouldn't pee for days.
As for now, women really like my cock, which doesn't mean they prefer me cut. It does mean however that there is nothing to stop a woman really liking a circumcised cock - look or feel - so you probably don't need to worry about that.
Hope it all went well and you enjoy sex in the future.
I'm curious to know why you needed the op now though if you'd like to tell. I still feel a bit like I was mutilated without my consent, although I know it was done with good intentions. But its a touchy thing for a bloke you know, and I suspect it might have lead me to feel insecure sexually for years.
Mark
Had a Yamaha Fazer until I smashed it and my wrist last september. Still doing the physio. Next phase of mid life crisis ... you guessed it ... swinging! :-)
Mark
Some of these opinions are very black and white. I think there are too many variables to be so definitive about this. Each person is so different, and consequently so is each relationship so I agree with Judy on this.
Surely for some, trust will be a fragile thing that must be coddled and once bumped too hard seems shattered beyond repair, but for others trust might become a bit tarnished but can be polished up to its former brilliance and even more. And all the variations inbetween that you can imagine.
And there are flavours of trust, degrees of trust etc.
So to say, don't swing if you have any doubts seems a bit daft to me. Jealousy is a messenger like any other emotion, and not necessarily a no go area. I'm reading an interesting book at the moment (The Ethical Slut) and have just started the chapter on jealousy and I think it has a lot of useful things to say about it.
However, it hasn't explained to me why I feel relatively ok about my ex (possibly to be partner again) dating, having sex with dates, and even relationships but feel absolute despair at the prospect of her swinging without me there. There is no logic and this stuff is fiendishly difficult to suss out, but probably well worth the effort.
I'd be interested in any other jealousy experiences and what people learned from them, whether they overcame them, and if so how etc. etc.
Nicola - thanks for starting a fascinating thread - I don't think it is necessary to think things through completely before posting something. Surely one of the points of posting is to have others help you figure something out! So please don't hold back, but keep posting interesting q's like this.
Mark x
My entry for quote of the thread (spoken in a, well Yodaish voice) :
"Jealousy, the shadow of greed it is" - Yoda
A very wise half pint Jedi?
Dewi I empathise. My ex and I are pondering the same q at the moment and it is a fucking difficult one isn't it. I'd be careful about asking for advice tho cos the way I experience this confusion of emotions is that I'll latch onto some advice (usually that fits a needy part of me) and ignore the rest!
Others are otherstoo, only you are you, so while their advice may be perfect for them, only you can know what is right for you. It isn't so much that you know the answer, but only you can take responsibility for it. Come back in a few months and no-one is going to want that. Shitty huh!
I have no idea what you should do, but I have some things which I find very useful in my rel with my ex and offer to you as possibilities: total honesty all the time, total acceptance all the time, and I try to trust in me, her, life, the universe and everything (even when it donesn't deliver what I think I want and it feels really really really fucking shit - shit is part of being alive so try to accept that to and I think you will be more alive than if you don't). These tenets won't work for everyone and may cause big problems if just switched on, so you must judge if they are for you and then discuss if they are for her, where you are at with them right now, how to go forward together with them etc.
Good luck mate, oh, actually I do have one piece of advice: don't take these decisions unless sober. I proposed at new years eve many years ago while in exactly this kind of situation. The marriage that followed is history and I have two kids who's dad doesn't live with them and all the guilt that comes with that. Doh! We all make mistakes tho, and who knows in another sitution I might have proposed to someone I didn't want and end up discovering my perfect partner! Doh! Doh! Doh!
All the best, and try getting some sleep!
Mark
Any ladies want to munch my melon?
Mark xx