wsoxfan

well I *always* have an escort with me, but I think this woulda just been a waste of time.

haha of course!! You're awesome! He told me you sent him a request.

why can't you?

I was talking about you getting a tattoo.

Dude, all that just makes you human.

By the way, did you ever hear from mattacme?

Don't be too hard on yourself, love. There's nothing wrong with being sensitive. You're a kind person and maybe that has to do with you being sensitive. I think it's a good thing.

i know you are someone I can count on as well.

I know you're in my corner too. Have a great weekend!

I think you missed a letter. :-)

But yes, I hope they cut him some slack, too. It was funny. (Unless he is a Yankees fan, of course).

I know that adjustment. Year-and-a-half ago broke a molar;
took quite awhile to get beyond swolling half-chew food.
The pain in the butt was the Dental Plan covered the extraction,
ZIP for replaceing it.

Re: your Sox vs. mine -- I grew up a Cubs fan. so "Wait 'til next year" was the first phrase I learned after "mama".

As to the other thing, no worries. Completely on the Q.T.

Cheers,

SWBdog

My bad.
I didn't make it clear that I understood your timeline.
Unless they were like the Smothers Bros. he should
have been proud of little brother.

Sometimes, even though we love and respect someone intensely we, as individuals, will always have different tastes and desires. I think it's a measure of your intense affection for each other, and your commitment that you managed to pass this crisis.
However, if we find our tastes are divergent from our partners, it does make us feel guilty. I feel somewhat guilty about being a member of SG, because my wife finds any form of pornography completely degrading. And yet, I have made such good friends here, some of them SGs. So, the point is, the guilt is projected onto us from outside, from someone else's viewpoint. We feel guilty, not because we think it is wrong, but because someone else that we care about does. But then again, if we didn't care about them and respect their feelings, it wouldn't happen. It's a mark of our empathy, I guess.
Don't forget also, although there are a few years between us, that we would have both been brought up in a much more puritan environment than exists these days (I certainly was anyway!). Our parents attitudes do shape our own, even if we ultimately reject them. And they will have shaped Annette's too.
Again, it is a mark of the strength and depth of your love for each other that you got past the event, but also that you do harbour guilty feelings. Transform that guilt into a loving memory for a woman that gave you so much; accept and enjoy who you are now.

Same here. I've met some wonderful people on SG.

I think we are social animals, aren't we? We have this illusion that we can cope on our own, but we're not really designed that way. And the negotiation and compromise that are necessary to build successful relationships are what develops us into proper caring human beings. Alone, we are 'trapped in the prison of our own freedom'.

ah thanks doll. you always give the best advice I wish you were as nice to yourself as you were to others (hugs)

You know, I'm never quite sure why football/soccer hasn't caught on more in the US. But then, apart from Japan, there's no market outside of North America for baseball really. I know a lot of the Latin American clubs were initially set up by British emigrants, especially in Argentina and Uruguay. And they have strong links with the Italian and Spanish leagues too. It must be a fairly organic thing, I guess.
But there is also the issue of rivalries, which are quite fierce, especially between teams from the same cities. Perhaps because major league football is imposed from the top down in the US, by marketing men seeing an opportunity, it hasn't got that grassroots allegiance that it has in other countries, where it has always been a working class sport. We always joke about clubs like Manchester United that their fans would be lucky to locate Manchester on a map, because they are now a global brand.
Some rivalries are still very sectarian; Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow having catholic and protestant supporters respectively. And their songs are rarely about football. So clubs have always defined communities, in a way. Even their unofficial names - the Millers (Rotherham United - a reference to the steel mills), the Blades (Sheffield United - another steel reference), the Potters (Stoke City - centre of the pottery industry), the Hammers (West Ham United were originally Thames Ironworks) - conjure an idea of their communitye base. Hatters, Cobblers, Saddlers, Glovers - the list goes on. But it does indicate how tied it was to the industrial revolution.
Sorry, long reply!