This is the point at which you don't pursue sex as it gets either left out, or avoided and you then become friends or partners in some way. Ordinarily you would make sure this happens in the workplace. But are there times when what might have been didn't actually happen and all sense of lust and longing, then dried up.
So the question is have you ever noticed this throughout your life?
Well it has happened to me a few times, albeit in the vanilla world. Where all the circumstances seemed right for an encounter, but somehow neither of us seemed willing to make the first move. Subsequently the idea of copping off with each other faded from our minds and we just got along with each other fine when and wherever we met. But it seemed like it could have been, sort of. If you see what I mean. Or maybe not then.
Yep, and the one,s you think, she is nice but never go any further and find out years later she was thinking the same about you, I like to call them the "If only's"
Yep - I've had this. With my best (female) friend. Before we were best friends and before I realised I could have been Bi of course. Of course I've been kicking myself for years since..... :doh:
*Her*
I got to being able to recognise it as soon as it kicked in. I knew I had felt something a bit lusty, but it was doomed to never happening. I just wonder how this phenomenon is recognised in rational values. I suppose you could view it in terms of missed opportunity, sour grapes or something like that. But does it work in a more fundamental way. ie your genes are telling you no, no, not this one!
yes that's the sort of thing that happens. I wonder if people have an inate ability to recognise that there's something more worthwhile than a short fling? But that its not up front in your head until after the sex thing goes away.