Recent content by beetpoet

this is close to how i have experienced my orientation. i like to describe it as "being more attracted by people's gentleness than their gender". i think being honest about your intentions and self aware and communicating well are the best guidelines for exploration. i have fallen in love...

just trying to articulate this honestly to myself and to the universe: i am ambivalent about partnership. wanting a relationship and scared of a relationship. i am seeking someone who is emotionally available. someone i feel romantic toward and who adores me too. someone where there is a...

i am a big person - almost 300 pounds. it's funny, i don't "feel" how large i am until i see myself in a picture, or try to do something that requires flexibility and lightness. everyone in my family is quite big. i think it has to do with genetics and emotional issues. i think my siblings and...

i like this thread the cat wakes me up around 5:00am to go outside. i let her out and then fall back asleep. awake around 7am on weekdays minimal routine-get breakfast, showered, dressed, pack a lunch try to get out the door by 7:45 to work. these days i am going to the same office every...

i think it's helpful for people with big families. i have about a hundred cousins, then my own siblings, nieces, nephews etc. i enjoy all of these people but sometimes it's good to just get a glance at their news without needing to call someone and get the whole deal on all the family (i sort of...

the situation you are describing here is why i pursued polyamory for a number of years. i don't know if i am asexual but i desire sexiness and sexuality less than most and MUCH less than the person i was married to. around the fifteenth year of our marriage we realized how much this was...

she blinked while applying pink ink to a jogger in the fog, and dropped her corndog (which began to sink in the pond). and from that day the two formed an breakable bond. (i'm all hepped up on chemo drugs so saying something unusual is kind of easy!) :m166x:

i don't really have advice for you, as you know your friends and possible results. i appreciate the dilemma though as two of my best friends are having a falling out. i've told both that i can't hear trash talking about the other ("he/she's an idiot! i can't believe you are still his/her...

cashew corresponded woodenly with ink, accountable to no one, in a field of healthy cosmetics.

lion of comfort shows up to banish winter bringing poetry

i have always enjoyed his message whatever his type. he seems intuitive for sure.

with each decade i've had a little less of that "tragically and painfully unique" feeling, and realize more and more that i am just enough...sufficient for what is needed, not the best or the worst. like just giving myself an easier time. i like it. i'm also less shy about saying what's true...

yes, i was going to say any of the movies based on jane austen. i like her stories because the timid/shy people always get their romantic wish at the end. i also like e.m. forster's "a room with a view" and "harold and maude"!

hi april, thanks for your message. i am recovering well from my surgery. today is two weeks and i can do most of the regular-life things, though somewhat more slowly. : )

at the age of 46 was the first time i lived without family members, housemates etc and i was surprised at the way part of me sighed with relief. like, there was some "emotional elbow room" for my introversion that i'd never experienced before. i've been living on and off alone the past four...