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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Friends with benefits

It's been a while since I have posted a new blog, but well I've been busy with daily life. Also I have been talking with an old friend of mine, who also has a blog. She has one where she talks open about sex and all kinds of stuff related to the subject. Check it out: Elena's Sex Manual

Anyway, she and I talked at a certain point about Friends with benefits and I therefor decided to write an article for her blog as a guest writer. So I thought I will share it with you guys as well.


Title: Friends with benefits
Author: Avalonya

Does it really have advantages? Does it also have disadvantages? Is it even possible? Or is it doomed to fail?  All questions I have asked myself many times before…

In a world where we are confronted with sex on a daily basis through various media, it’s strange how often this subject is still taboo. I am a Young, modern, independent woman. I am not ashamed to admit I’ve had every now and then a so-called ‘fuckbuddy’. In fact I even got one at the moment.
Some may think ‘you go, girl’, others may think ‘what a slut’. I am honest to say I don’t care which side of this line you are on. I think that everyone can agree with me that sex is one of the most natural and primitive needs of a human being, but that it also is one with a lot of controversy and diversity. So everyone should do what feels right by him/her.

Before I started writing this article, I have watched the 2011 movie ‘Friends with benefits’. I thought if Hollywood is brave enough to work with this subject, I should see if it’s one of those movies drained of stereotypes or that it actually contains some truth. It was a nice movie, but as I suspected drained with stereotypes. Boy and girl, both lonely and ‘emotionally damaged’, become friends. After while they decide to have sex with no strings attached. What seems to be the perfect solution, turns into a drama when feelings get in the way…
I ain’t going to give away how this movie ends, you will have to find out on your own if you have become curious. I liked the movie even though it was drained with stereotypes. I even recognized some of the situations and parts of dialogue between the two friends.

Advantages vs disadvantages
I started having a ‘fuckbuddy’ quite fast after I became sexually active. I just came out of my first steady relationship and had a rough time in my life. I am not one of the most beautiful ladies on this world and that was quite obvious at times. Men in my life always only wanted to be just friends, but for a relationship I wasn’t ‘their type’. Also in this period there where enough men who showed me the cold shoulder this way. Under influence of alcohol and drugs I was able to throw my natural shyness over board. Men noticed this as well and this is how I had my first one nightstand.
I found out that it felt good to fulfill this animalistic lust and that I didn’t need to be in a relationship to do so. Although the unbound and totally uncomplicated side of one nightstands a big advantage was, it also had disadvantages. You are sleeping with a totally stranger, you have absolutely no idea if it even is worth the effort and besides that you don’t even know if you find a ‘victim’ if you want to. When one of these one nightstands proposed to meet more often just to have sex, it seemed to me a great idea.
He wasn’t unattractive and the sex was good. Besides that, I could have a normal conversation with him, so we also did stuff together that didn’t include having sex. After a while it became a weekly visit, where we decided on the spot if we would satisfy each other’s needs or just have a nice afternoon together.

But it also had a big disadvantage. Before we made this arrangement, we didn’t think of the other side of the story. Feelings started to develop, one sided. This offcourse caused a difficult situation, so we decided to stop. We wanted to stay friends and so we kept hanging out together. After a few times, the inevitable happened and we had sex like we always used to have. This changed everything between us, because we noticed that our deal like it once existed no longer worked. The friendship we built up didn’t work anymore, because one felt more than the other. We couldn’t hang out with each other as uncomplicated, free and unbound like we used to. At first we kept in touch occasionally, where we would meet in public places to make the temptation as small as possible. Eventually also this occasional contact stopped, our friendship seemed not to be resistant to the temptation.

Even after this experience, I seemed to fall back on a ‘fuckbuddy’ every now and then. My opinion is that having a ‘fuckbuddy’ has advantages as well as disadvantages. If this is something you like and you experience the same advantages and disadvantages is up to you and the person who may be your ‘fuckbuddy’. That’s why I have put here the advantages and disadvantages like I have experienced them through the years.

Advantages:             You get the milk for free, so don’t need to buy the whole cow (you get sex, but have no relationship/obligations).
                                   You got one sexual partner, instead of changing ones. This has the advantage that it lessens the risk of a STD, when off course you perform safe sex. Also you are more familiar with each others wishes and needs.
                                   You aren’t dependant on if you can actually hook up with someone, you just need to find a time that both are available.

Disadvantages:         You are kind of ‘off the market’. Most people don’t look for a different relationship once they got a ‘fuckbuddy’.
                                    Feelings can develop. These can be on both sides, but usually they are onesided. This can ruin friendships.
                                   Not everyone is open for this kind of friendships, which mean people can judge you on this in their eyes inappropriate behavior.

The ideal solution or doomed to fail?
This is to decide for everyone himself. I can only say that the experience as described above, was the first in a series of several. Not one of them turned out to be a great success after all. Though this hasn’t stopped me from having another one, when I felt the need and had the opportunity.
What I did do was change my expectations. At first I thought this kind of agreement between friends didn’t come with a prize and could go on unlimited. This turned out to be a complete unrealistic expectation. If you are making such an agreement, be aware that this most often costs you the friendship and that it always is something temporary. Sooner or later feelings develop. These can be for the person you are having sex with, but it can also happen you develop feelings for someone else and therefore want to call off the agreement. This off course can also happen to the other one and then you might be disappointed.
Anyway, is it therefore doomed to fail? I don’t think so. I think that if you are clear with each other about the various consequences that can occur because of this and how to handle them, it can be a temporary ideal solution to a luxury problem. I say luxury problem, because having sex is not something that is necessary to survive, even though some may think it is.

Conclusion
It has it’s advantages and disadvantage, but if you are aware of them and make agreements with the partner in question, than you can have a really nice time. But most of all do what you like yourself.

I am curious what your oppinion and/or experiences are.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I'll get over him


People who know me, know I am a person who expresses her feelings best through songs. Since I ain't that talented that I write my own songs (yet), I use music from various artists. One of my favourit artists is Celine Dion. Ever since I heard her song Think Twice when I was 11 years old, I have been a big fan of her music. Most of the lyrics from her songs have fitted at one point of time exactly to how I felt at that moment. So I thought I would let you guys know which song suits best to me today.

Allthough I am far from being over him, I started today with a different attitude. I love this guy so much, but if he doesn't love me back, it's his loss.... I just have to get over him and make something out of my life. Someday I hope to find a guy who loves me back in the same way I love him and we can be happy, but for now I am just gonna focuss on me.  

I have realised there is no point in trying to make someone love me, when they don't love me just because of me. I'm not gonna try and be better then I am. I am good just the way I am, I am beautiful just the way I am, I am loveable just the way I am!!! And everyone who disagrees, can kiss my lovely behind!!!

Monday, January 23, 2012

A broken heart

The last few years I was presumed to be happy with my husband, but no one knew how I really felt. I didn't know for long what I really felt for the man I choose years ago to spend my life with. Both of us tried our best to make something out of this relationship, but neither one of us was able to make the other one happy. So a few months ago I finally realised I didn't love this man I was married to.
Our life was more like brother and sister then anything else. We cared a lot for eachother but not like we should. At least from my side that's what it was. So I decided that I no longer want to be married to him. Our journey has still not ended since we are still married by law, but for the past 6 months we live the life of a single person. Because of that now my heart has broken in many pieces.


About 3 months ago he walked into my life, completely unexpected. I wasn't looking for love and especially not  in this intensity. It felt like the earth stood still, my heart stopped beating and then my whole life changed. For the first time in my life I felt that I belonged here. My place was with that guy. We started to get to know each other and he was not like any man I met before. All guys I met always wanted to get you into bed as soon as possible. This one was different! He was kind, gentle and most of all he cared about getting to know me. We slowly started to get to know each other better and better. My feelings kept growing and I started showing him how I felt. It took weeks before we first kissed, but the moment my lips touched his it was for me like a firework.


Unfortunately this story doesn't end well. Last night we had again a talk about our feelings towards each other. He used to say he wasn't sure what he felt for me and after a while his whole attitude towards me started to change. He started to push me away and I just couldn't understand why. He made it clear he didn't want anything accept a friendship, but even that started to change and the more he pushed me away the more I tried to get close again. This went on for a few weeks, but last night he made very clear that the feelings he might once had, no longer exist. That message shattered my heart into a million pieces.


Now all I can do is cry and hope one day I will feel better again!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Just another boring saturday

Most people are glad when they finally got weekend, I used to be one of those people, but not anymore. Nowadays I look at 2 days of boredom. Offcourse I got my homework to do, which I do but that isn't much to look forward to. Also it means 2 days of not seeing the man I lost my heart to. And even though he doesn't want my heart, it still belongs to him. Most of the time I am sitting at home behind my desktop and tv just killing tme.

So you might wonder what happened that I don't like the weekend anymore? I can't really tell what was the trigger for me to start hating weekend, I just know I am glad when it's over.
Before I used to go to my friends, but I don't have many real life friends anymore. Most of them I lost touch with or they moved away. Which leaves me pretty lonely, since I ain't someone who makes friends easily. Well at least I don't call people friends that fast. Some people I just don't wanna let to get close. I've been hurt too many times.

So what did I do today? Pretty much nothing. Watched a few episodes of Californication season 1, talked to a friend on facebook about my broken heart, played a few facebook-games, watched some tv, worked for a bit on my report, and offcourse started this blog.


Well that's it for me today.