Shared Sundays

Love is the only section on Shared Sunday’s that I fear. I thought I might take a stab at “Love”, though I’ll probably tangent off into every other section.

It is extremely difficult to add original content to the topic of love and very easy to borrow ideas from the thousands of articles already written about it…. I’ll try my best to avoid temptation…. But I won’t avoid trampling all over regular writing conventions.

Having found my last boyfriend online, I swore this time around I would do my searching ‘offline’ and in the real world. And now, after taking a few months off just for me - I have no idea where to start.

It’s not that I have no clue on how to meet people, it’s just approaching someone is not as easy as it should be. Thankfully, we live in an age of options and there are three schools of thought on how to meet people, all with the same start point and end goal – get out there and meet someone.

School of thought #1: Join something

How comfortable are you with your body? Not at all? Join about 75 per cent of all sexually active adults. There’s very few who are confident enough with all of themselves to not be freaked out about the thought of having sex with someone for the first time it’s actually supposed to mean something.

What is love? Seems like an easy enough question to ask, but could you really come up with an easy answer?

Unlike the masses, I only just got around to watching loveactually two weeks ago. And yes, just like the theme song stresses over, and over and over again – love really is all around and if you look you’ll be able to see it everywhere. At Christmas, in the airport, at a stop light, at a wedding, funeral and even a hockey game. It’s there.

But where is it in a relationship? When do you say it? And what’s the difference between loving someone and being in love with them?

We at Shared Sunday’s like to do just that, share. It is with this idea in mind that I will now share with you what I consider a personal story, my “sex toy situation.”

Just so we cover our bases (all of which belong to us), I’m a 25 year old straight male who has been in a relationship with a beautiful girl for almost 6 years now. Prior to the beginning of our relationship none of us had owned a sex toy.

Let’s do the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the horrible… lets assign numerical values to encompass a person’s entire worth… all in under a second!

While many object to the callous and inhumane practice of rating the opposite sex a number between one and ten most of us do it anyway, and for good reason.

People often date people that have a similar ranking to themselves. You don’t often see a troll with the hottest guy in town, nor do you see the bombshell model dating the overweight guy in accounting. (I got nothing personal against accountants!)

A lot gets said when discussing the dating scene but perhaps one of the most interesting debates is quality vs. quantity. Though the following should under no circumstances be considered “professional research” think on this…

In order to date a girl you must meet 3 minimum requirements

1. Meet One!
2. Ask One Out
3. She Must (without the use of performance enhancing drugs) Say Yes

Four months out of a four and a half year relationship laced with more residue than my bathtub after a month of not being washed, I’ve identified the one thing (as if!) that went wrong – and it was all my fault (Shocking, I know – surely I couldn’t have been responsible…).