Blackie,
You misunderstand me.

I am not morose and sitting around with a scowl on my face. That is not my personality. I was merely pointing out that you are (or were, whichever the case may be) dead fcuking wrong in how you were approaching this.

I've noticed a trend with you (and I'm not being mean, only being as blunt as you like to be) that you start hurling semi-insults (squeals of indignation, etc) when someone tells you that you are wrong. Perhaps a better way to handle it is to say, Hmmm what insight can I get into the female brain here?

After all, that is what you are trying to help us with--insight into the male brain.

OR, you can do as you did and flesh out your idea a little better, and with more sensitivity, as in your breaking down of the sentence. It turns out that you are NOT leaving her high and dry, as you insinuated, but rather doing what is natural in most relationships--most of the time it happens, sometimes it doesn't. That is fine with both partners and I doubt that it is all that unusual.

So, dude, what's up with the inflammatory language? Do you like seeing us chicks all in a dither about what you write?

As far as my state of mind, I laughed a lot this weekend with H. I don't know if you know anything about the Enneagram but he is a 6 and I am a 7. Both of these "types" of people like to laugh. Even at our worst, there is usually some laughs in there. We had a very good time with each other.

Having said that, though, I have a very sensitive bullshiit-o-meter. I call it when I see it.

I saw some in the false-bravado-I-like-leave-her-hanging, and I called you on it.

Your response made perfect sense to me that it seemed that both of you took and both of you gave. Sounds awesome to me! (btw, that is not a problem with me and MrHP and never has been)

Cheers,
H.