i want emotional relationships

[markgreyblue]

sitting in starbucks
and getting glances from a man across the way -

he was handsome -

and i realized there was something there - ...for me a little more -

he spoke an emotional gentleness and reasonable appearance

and i knew this is what i wanted - sex is easy - but the emotional relationship and the intimacy is what i want -

what i know - i can have -

 

Mark,

I hear you on this one. Sex is all well and good, but I want the emotional attachment too. I think that is a sign of maturity.

I sowed plenty of wild oats in the past. Now I'd like to plant some roses.

Marc

 

[Abe]

For myself, the intimacy is more difficult than the sex. But once I have the intimacy, the sex becomes more difficult. Of the two, it is intimacy I value the most.

 

[MrDon]

I kept looking for intimacy in sex and it took me a long time to figure out that they were separate things. When my partner and I met, we learned that the more we could trust each other, the more we could explore intimacy. It was tough at first and sometimes I still struggle with it. My body is programmed to see sex as intimacy and it is taking a lot of time and work to get myself to change how I think on this. This is an automatic reaction for me so it happens way before the brain kicks in gear.

Don