Are You Ready For...

[Latharix_sama]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Relationships?

I'm talking about real, loving, maybe even sexual ones.

The age range people start searching for love seems to be splitting. People are dating at much younger and [I]older[/I] ages. I wonder, are all of these people really ready for physical and emotional companions?

I claim to be nonsexual, and I really mean it. I have no sex drive and I can't be "turned on". I went through the sexual stage and said, "Screw you, bugger!"
I am in need of constant companionship and love, but not the romantic or physical kind.

So, what about all of you? Are you ready, already involved, unprepared, no where near mature enough, or are you blatantly ignoring such things, like me?[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

[The13thMan]

[FONT=Century Gothic] [COLOR=DarkOrange]I'd say i'm ready and willing. I'm a guy and my body demands certain things, i can't deny it. But past the physical i also yearn for companionship and ultimately love.

Later.


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[2010DigitalBoy]

I honestly don't fraking know anymore. All I want in life right now is to find someone to hold... I don't even care if we have a true relationship... all I want is love. Boy, girl, whoever, I just need to hold someone. I don't know how much Im ready for, though I'm prepared to handle whatever comes.

[Fasteriskhead]

I was hoping the title of this thread would conclude with "The Sex, Girls."

(NOTE: joke explained [URL=http://www.myspace.com/gleamingspires][u]here[/u][/url])

[Albert Flasher]

[QUOTE=Latharix_sama][COLOR=RoyalBlue][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Relationships?

I'm talking about real, loving, maybe even sexual ones.

The age range people start searching for love seems to be splitting. People are dating at much younger and [I]older[/I] ages. I wonder, are all of these people really ready for physical and emotional companions?

I claim to be nonsexual, and I really mean it. I have no sex drive and I can't be "turned on". I went through the sexual stage and said, "Screw you, bugger!"
I am in need of constant companionship and love, but not the romantic or physical kind.

So, what about all of you? Are you ready, already involved, unprepared, no where near mature enough, or are you blatantly ignoring such things, like me?[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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Funny. I'm the exact opposite. I'm not interested in love or relationships. I've seen what happens to guys who get girlfriends etc. It's not pretty. They change. One day you're hanging out with a guy, he's your best friend, he's cool, the next he's spending all his time with some chick, and you never get to see him anymore. When his girlfriend finally gets done with sucking his life force out through his *lower appendage* he gets all mopey and depressing, and he starts to dress in black and write ****** poetry. I don't want any part of that!

Lust, on the other hand, is something I'm well aquanted with. I'm a 14 year old boy for Gretzky's sake! I practically run on junk food and hornyness! But there is no way I'm getting into a relationship. As I always say:

"Just because I like milk doesn't mean I'm going to go out and buy a cow."[/COLOR]

[DeadSeraphim]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]Been there, done that...[/font][/color][/size]

[Veritas]

[size=1][color=dimgray]Ahhh the ever elusive relationship, errr well thats how it is in my case. I've done lust enough for awhile I think and I want to try something more serious. All I really know is I want something more emotionally and mentally based compaired to physical attraction because it only goes so far. I'd even be willing to try keeping it innocent, but we'll see. It's hard for me to find a girl that I can relate to, though I think I might have just been looking in the wrong places. [/color][/size]
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[size=1][color=dimgray]Basically I'm looking for companionship as well.[/color][/size]

[uchihagirl]

[QUOTE=Red 6][COLOR=Sienna]
Funny. I'm the exact opposite. I'm not interested in love or relationships. I've seen what happens to guys who get girlfriends etc. It's not pretty. They change. One day you're hanging out with a guy, he's your best friend, he's cool, the next he's spending all his time with some chick, and you never get to see him anymore. When his girlfriend finally gets done with sucking his life force out through his *lower appendage* he gets all mopey and depressing, and he starts to dress in black and write ****** poetry. I don't want any part of that!

Lust, on the other hand, is something I'm well aquanted with. I'm a 14 year old boy for Gretzky's sake! I practically run on junk food and hornyness! But there is no way I'm getting into a relationship. As I always say:

"Just because I like milk doesn't mean I'm going to go out and buy a cow."[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

Are you sure that's what happens? I mean, I thought that love was suppose to do the exact opposite of suck his life force out. :animedepr And plus, not all girls dump their guys.

Well, back to the subject, I don't love anyone yet and don't think I'll wish to, maybe I will in the future and I think we should all just think about the good old present state instead of the future so I'll shut up about that. :catgirl:

[Farto the Magic]

[QUOTE=Red 6][COLOR=Sienna]
Funny. I'm the exact opposite. I'm not interested in love or relationships. I've seen what happens to guys who get girlfriends etc. It's not pretty. They change. One day you're hanging out with a guy, he's your best friend, he's cool, the next he's spending all his time with some chick, and you never get to see him anymore. When his girlfriend finally gets done with sucking his life force out through his *lower appendage* he gets all mopey and depressing, and he starts to dress in black and write ****** poetry. I don't want any part of that!

Lust, on the other hand, is something I'm well aquanted with. I'm a 14 year old boy for Gretzky's sake! I practically run on junk food and hornyness! But there is no way I'm getting into a relationship. As I always say:

"Just because I like milk doesn't mean I'm going to go out and buy a cow."[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=DarkGreen]*Fasterisk, that was great.*

Dude, I totally had that though. My best friend through high school was trying to help me get with another friend (this one, a girl). So, she tells me she doesn't like me. He gets a note in his locker that says "call me" and a number. So he does. On their first date, they cuddled under a blanket. I know, because I accidentally walked in on that one...and it haunts me to this day...uuugggghhhh...

Anyway, I went off to college and assumed that they would break up at some point. Their relationship was spawned out of desperation. He always prided himself on having a girl at his side at all times. In fact, he'd frequently jump from one girl to another. "We can't date? Oh well, me and her can." She, on the other hand, couldn't do much better.

They go together like marshmellows and nacho cheese. I've tried it. It seems ok in theory, and at first, but when it gets sweet and cheesy at the same time, you want to barf. Same with them. On paper, it seems good. At first, its disturbing, but survivable. Once you get to the fifteen minute goodbyes and the parts when he forgets about his friends to hang out with her, I got sick of it.

At this point, he's saving up to get her a ring. It costs 1500 dollars. He's always had delusions of grandeur, but now its just ridiculous. They plan on having 6 kids, she won't work, he'll be a world-famous psychiatrist, white-picket fence crap. The end.
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The thing is, he still wants to hang out with me...when she's not around. Now that that's all off my chest... I will admit it. I am a man. I like women a good deal. I intend to have one one day, and she will have a man...who'll be me. But the day I go around blowing off my friends (and I will tell them this), I'm ordering them to beat the hell out of me, til I'm blue in the fingers. I like being nonsexually intimate with someone, but if the relationship dies, and you put your all into it, you have nothing. You have yourself. And, in another thread, deadseraphim determined that sex is 80% less enjoyable by yourself...thank you.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[sakurasuka]

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Relationships. Fun.

Well, I'm young. Only fifteen. I've dated a fair bit for my age, and I'm not completely moronic when it comes to matters of love and lust.

However, my current relationship-status scares me a bit. But a good type of scared, if that's possible.

I've fallen in love with my best friend. And, to my immense pleasure, he loves me back.

So. As of 8-11-06, we're together. Scary, but amazing. Words simply can't express it.



But we've made a compromise. If anything happens that would possibly hurt our relationship, we're [i]friends[/i] first. And even if, for some unknown reason, our relationship doesn't last, we intend to remain friends [Corny as this may seem] forever.



So I'm ready, yeah. Taking it slow, though. Heh.

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[triblackfire]

[font=Comic Sans MS][color=deepskyblue]I'm currently in a relationship right now with one of the greatest guys I've ever met. Of course we started out as friends first and now we are commited to each other. We do the regular stuff boy/girl friends do for each other and it's all good. Of course at times we do have our urges but we both have enough self-control to stop from crossing any boundaries. ^.~[/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=deepskyblue]We both wish for our relationship to last for[/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=deepskyblue]quite awhile, and if something does break us apart, the foundation called friendship that started us out will always be there. (tear)[/color][/font]

[Momiji Love]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue][SIZE=1][FONT=Verdana]I'd really love to be in a relationship (nothing to the point of sex...I plan to wait 'till I'm married for that bit.) but my mind is up and down on the subject.Some days I feel as though I am ready, others, I don't.

I've still got the mentality and (sort of) expectations of a little girl hoping for the perfect guy. A lot of people my age (15) have dated [I]numerous[/I] people, and thats what sort of scares me. That I know so little about "dating" that I'll seem stupid.

I do have my eye on a really good friend of mine. We recently shared some "snuggle time" and...ha ha ha. We kissed a couple of times.
Then he got his cute little self grounded, and I have just started talking to him again.And I can't seem to gather up the courage to ask him if we should try to be more than friends.

My mother asked me about him last night.

Momiji's Mom: "So what has your friend been up to lately?"
Momiji:"Drew?"
MM:"Yeah, Drew."
M:"Nothing really. He was just grounded a little while ago, so probably sitting around his house with his parents."
MM:"What was he grounded for?"
M:"Can't remember."
MM:"Yes you can."
M:"Actually, I don't even know."
MM:"Well, he seemed nice. Maybe your father should meet him."
M:"0_o"

Maybe her opinion will change after she learns about our bench cuddling and kissing.
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[Dan L]

Wow, it's been a loooooong time since I posted anything on OB.. must be at least a year, probably more..


I'm 23 now : p. And since I posted on OB last, I've actually found someone I really like (not for the first time obviously)- but this time things worked out, and we've been together for just over 6 months.

I'd say I'm more on the older end of people dating- purely because Abi's the first girlfriend I've ever had, not so much due to lack of effort as lack of success finding someone where the feeling was mutual.

And well, I'd say the key to love in a relationship is actually getting to know the person. I've seen far too many relationships which are purely physical, which is justified by the fact that the two people "love" each other.. when actually- in my opinion at least- that's not really love so much as lust.. because in order to love someone you have to have at least some understanding of what they're like, rather than just enjoying some crazy physical thing with someone you don't really know, which barely works out.

For example, Abi and I aren't in a sexual relationship.. which is more because we're both Christians than anything and think it's necessary to respect that the level of committment we actually have to the relationship right now isn't enough to justify that (which is another way of saying "we shouldn't until we're married".. only it's more of a reason than a rule).. but also, we haven't even kissed yet, which actually has very little to do with that reasoning, and was more because we were both perfectly happy with the ways we already have of being affectionate, and we both feel there's just no need to rush.
However, just cos we haven't done that, it doesn't mean we're a completely bizarre couple.. you probably wouldn't even notice unless you spent loads of time around us and thought "hang on.. why have I never seen them kiss?"

But yeah, I do love Abi, and the main thing for us is that we're in a relationship, and that means actually knowing each other, rather than just using each other- which, innocent as it may seem or be intended as.. lust, in my opinion, isn't really any more than that

[Panda]

Long time no see Dan L! Good to see you back posting again! :animesmil

I am in a long term committed relationship. I've been married for over a decade and we are still going strong. We've had our ups and downs but we work through it together. For better or worse we are in it for the long haul.

Any relationship, friendship or romantic, takes work and dedication from both involved. If someone isn't willing to work through those hard times they probably aren't ready for that level of relationship.

[Starfire0567]

Well I can't believe I'm actually going to write about him but whatever.....Here goes all my wonderful sanity.

Ok so I'm 14 yrs old and never actually spoken to a guy unless they were making fun of me about my hair (which used to be SUPER curly and messy) So the week of my birthday (this happened in May) I was in the school's library looking at some horror books when Edgar came up to me and asked for a book recommendation. So I told him a few good ones and even mentioned a few I hadn't read yet. So the entire lunch period we were talking about anything under the sun. Then in the middle of the period a friend of mine's from elementary school started teasing the two of us. Edgar raised an eyebrow when he was saying we were going out. Of course me being me, I nearly pounded his skull in but controlled myself by glaring at him. So then he stops and we began talking about how everyone HAD to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. So yea we became friends then swapped numbers. I told him through a text message that I liked him then I kissed him on the cheek when he walked me home. The other things happened (Nothing Xrated!!!). So now we havent talked for awhile and I think I love him.....Anybody got any ideas?

[sakurasuka]

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Aw. Starfire. That's sweet.

Just let it take you wherever it takes you, I mean, he obviously thinks you're pretty great.

But meh.

I know I love my guy. I guess I have all along, I've just been to thick to realize it.

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[Hanabishi Recca]

[QUOTE=The13thMan][FONT=Century Gothic] [COLOR=DarkOrange]I'd say i'm ready and willing. I'm a guy and my body demands certain things, i can't deny it. But past the physical i also yearn for companionship and ultimately love.

Later.


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When a mans hungry - He eats right?[/SIZE][/B]

He doesn't have to, any man could fight for his own.

For me anyway, I don't think I would acually have anyone like me enough for a date or any such thing. I would rather just sit down - and if they come sure - but if not, just wait and be by myself.There might be someone I have my eye on but they already told me they like me - I wouldn't ever fornicate though.

End of thoughts - remember...

Jesus is LORD!!!

[NOTE - I'm not trying to be mean to The13Man at all. I probably won't even check on this thread anymore anyway :p]