{"id":1676,"date":"2003-09-08T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2003-09-08T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T09:18:15","slug":"boys_girls_head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/boys_girls_head\/","title":{"rendered":"boys, girls, headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/images\/digicam\/babyhand.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"sleeping baby hand. aww!\"  title=\"sleeping baby hand. aww!\" \/><\/div>\n<p>remember when i was talking about all that happiness i was feeling?  some of it has slipped away.  rather, i&#8217;ve lost some of my perspective while trying to figure out if i&#8217;m doing the right thing when it comes to boys.<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been feeling like i&#8217;m always doing things backwards when it comes to men.  having internet relationships hasn&#8217;t helped that at all, i&#8217;m sure.  there&#8217;s this fictional script i believe i should be following when it comes to relationships.  it goes something like:<br \/>\ngirl meets boy at some social function or at a trendy coffee shop\/bookstore.<br \/>\nboy asks for girl&#8217;s number.<br \/>\nboy phones girl and asks her out.<br \/>\ngirl and boy go out.<br \/>\non second date, boy kisses girl.<br \/>\nafter a certain period of time, boy and girl have delightful, romantic sex.<br \/>\n<b>option a:<\/b><br \/>\nsleepovers commence.<br \/>\nboy and girl are officially a couple.<br \/>\nparents are met.<br \/>\nhappily ever after.<br \/>\n<b>option b:<\/b><br \/>\nboy thinks girl is horrid in sack and never calls her again.<br \/>\n<b>option c:<\/b><br \/>\ngirl thinks boy is horrid in sack and avoids his calls.<br \/>\nsee, where i think i keep going wrong is not minding the certain period of time before the delightful, romantic sex rule.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m suffering the whole &#8220;why buy the cow&#8221; dilemma.  it&#8217;s a horrible contradiction.  we&#8217;re told that good girls don&#8217;t sleep around, but that also seems to mean that good girls also don&#8217;t sleep with a boy they think is hot without some sort of committment.  why can&#8217;t we?  if the boy is cute and interested, why is it so wrong to get naked with him?<br \/>\ni suppose i&#8217;m just afeared that the boy will think it&#8217;s just the sex when there&#8217;s a hope for more.  i don&#8217;t want it to always be just the sex.  i want there to be the love and the romance and the committment, complete with the trust, the respect and the quiet affection, too.<br \/>\ndammit, i guess i do want it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>remember when i was talking about all that happiness i was feeling? some of it has slipped away. rather, i&#8217;ve lost some of my perspective while trying to figure out if i&#8217;m doing the right thing when it comes to boys. i&#8217;ve been feeling like i&#8217;m always doing things backwards when it comes to men. <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/boys_girls_head\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}