Monster
10-09-2005, 09:00 AM
As of late, I've been incredibly happy--joyously so--that I'm single. I love being single, and I'm enjoying life a great deal more than I would be if I was in a relationship.
Not knocking relationships, I just have no desire to be in one right now. I much prefer to be accountable only to myself, be able to live my life at my own pace in my own way and on my own terms, and have all of my money be spent on me.
But after the show tonight, when a big group of us went out for food, I was sitting surrounded by numerous female friends, and realized that I really didn't want to sleep alone. And for one increidbly brief moment I thought This is the kind of thing that would make having a girlfriend a nice thing.
A brief thought, and it was quickly countered by other thoughts about how some of the women in my life--my close female friends--are women I could sleep next to and have that same feeling, but the thought was/is there nonetheless.
Ultimately, I think that's why, no matter how tempting (and easy) it may be for me to get involved with a number of women through Rocky or just by meeting them, I don't think I'm going to ever get that bad. My friends with benefits situations put much more emphasis on the "friends" part than they do the "benefits." I will actually hang out with them without doing anything beyond actually hanging out. And if the number of FwB situations I have gets beyond just a few, it stops meaning something to me to be around them.
Quality over quantity, right?
TMI for some of you, I know, I just felt the need to get that thought off my chest.
Not knocking relationships, I just have no desire to be in one right now. I much prefer to be accountable only to myself, be able to live my life at my own pace in my own way and on my own terms, and have all of my money be spent on me.
But after the show tonight, when a big group of us went out for food, I was sitting surrounded by numerous female friends, and realized that I really didn't want to sleep alone. And for one increidbly brief moment I thought This is the kind of thing that would make having a girlfriend a nice thing.
A brief thought, and it was quickly countered by other thoughts about how some of the women in my life--my close female friends--are women I could sleep next to and have that same feeling, but the thought was/is there nonetheless.
Ultimately, I think that's why, no matter how tempting (and easy) it may be for me to get involved with a number of women through Rocky or just by meeting them, I don't think I'm going to ever get that bad. My friends with benefits situations put much more emphasis on the "friends" part than they do the "benefits." I will actually hang out with them without doing anything beyond actually hanging out. And if the number of FwB situations I have gets beyond just a few, it stops meaning something to me to be around them.
Quality over quantity, right?
TMI for some of you, I know, I just felt the need to get that thought off my chest.