KJames

Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate bars, Dark Chocolate M&M's, Vanilla Ice Cream with Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate Syrup. Pure 100% Kona Coffee. Hot, passionate sex with my wonderful husband...and falling asleep next to him at night.

Hey, Mark! I loved the ending for Ch. 8! I thought you were going to keep us in the dark, but that was sweet of you not to.

Actually, Robbie said that he always used a rubber when making out with Neil...didn't say he never did...

Algebra for Dummies? I'd never list any of the "for Dummies" titles...despite the humor in the books..especially after having placed in algebra 3 times...

I'm not really upset with the pace of the releases, I miss the interface from GA, where I can resize the text through the link at the top of the page...it was handy when I was out and reading on my BlackBerry or even at home on the desktop. His "columnar" format is making for short reads, and small text only.

Pretty much mw85...OP is still a popular brand with some...

Yeah, and with Ch. 5, the waiting game continues on what type of kink Robbie's into as well...Mark's pushing for King of Cliffhangers for next year, I think...

Mark, I'm, sort of, in the same kind of boat Sharon is...my partner, Rob, is a controller...so I let him do what he wants...and I do what I want...he's in charge of the "social calendar" and "appointments" but I'm in charge of driving so, if I'm not ready... He let's me have enough time to do "chores" (which I don't mind doing), but sometimes forgets how much time they actually take...so when something isn't done he also knows better than to ask, "Why?"

And so I was right, Chapter 4 posted Wednesday night... Mark! That was quite a surprise having that long B&R conversation on the beach, and in the plane with Max joining in it, too! You're quite a little surprise packager! I liked the twist at the end with the calendaring...and if I have to wait for Ch. 7 or 8 for Robbie's conversation with Neil over how Neil handled Robbie getting that from Brad, with your current schedule, I think I can hold out for a month...

See if you can get Vonage for your phone and internet, I hear from some friends and from their ads that they're very inexpensive.

You guys are in for a great ride through life...Rob & I have been together for almost 18 1/2 years now. There are days where we work ourselves to exhaustion, and days where we never get out of bed are scarce--but they do happen, still . Two great things that we decided to do early in our relationship, even if we're mad at each other, no matter whether it's a trivial or major stressor, was promise each other that we would never go to bed angry with each other, and tell each other that we still loved the other. That's been happening either on the phone before I moved in, or every day since I moved in with him, January 11, 1992. For those of you who think relationships don't last, one of our acquaintances from our former bowling league has been with his partner for about 65 years now...

And, as usual, Mark, you're ahead of schedule again. Chapter 3 for Tuesday posted on Sunday (2 days early, you're estimates are getting farther off ) and I read it along with four other stories I'm keeping up with <whew!>. So I'm guestimating over your estimate that Chap. 4 will probably post by Wed. or Thu. since you're running early. Chap. 3 was excellent, Mark. A relief for me to see what happened with those relationships, and that things worked out the way they did...and that B&R will, hopefully, continue to have their relationship improve once again, it's been too long for them away at college. That kink thing with Neil & Robbie is going to be interesting when it comes out...

You know, in listing the minor characters, it would help to have a reminder of their relationship background in the stories...I didn't know who Greg was until reading about him in the stories, and still forget the relationship that links him in. All the others I remember as major players in the storyline....but I hate to think of Mouse coming down with HIV...he sounds so cute...

Could it be that Neil is the proverbial "size queen"?? And the bag left in the jeep in ch. 1 was Neil's giant dildoes? Or that Robbie is into being a rough or leather top, @ noted in all previous sex scenes with Mouse?

I have to agree with you, Conner, Neil's exit can't come soon enough...I, too missed on the first 2 years of college for B&R but suppose that's a hot and heavy short story from Mark later on...(hint, hint, kick-in-the-seat). Although the story is told from Brad's POV, it would've been nice to shift to Robbie's place for that conversation between him and Neil before and after Robbie's call to Brad.

ANCK, that sounds like Bodega Bay.

Just goes to show you then, that you just can't trust women...

Unfortunately, the poll on which chore(s) were our favorites only allowed one selection, not multiples...

If that's the advice on why sex should be avoided in college, then it's surprising that we're only approximately 10% of the population!!!

Yes, Mark, please see Shadowgod's comment below your earlier one. I was speaking in terms of the whole broad group, not just a small part of us...I can go find the study on men and women forming emotional bonds if you really want to see it...Rob's research into a closely related topic was only last fall semester. Generally speaking, both gay men and straight women, as groups, will fall into love (form emotional bonds with each other) more quickly than both Straight men and Lesbian women. That's not to say that it applies to each and every one of them, but as a group overall, the incidence of gay men and straight women falling in love quickly is higher within each of those groups than within the groups of Straight men and Lesbian women--it was found that the emotional bonds formed more quickly. On the other side of the study, it was found that Straight men and Lesbian women, as groups overall, formed their relationships around the physical pleasure they were able to get out of it, and the emotional attachment was only secondary. Gee, isn't that interesting? Weird stuff, huh? Myk, you are stuck with a label, sorry--it's the same one each of us has: Unique. Take advantage of it. But, back to the topic at hand, Nick's broken bi-boyfriend... I have to agree with AFriendlyFace and Tiger in that: 'Drew's issue isn't with you right now, it is with healing over a broken relationship...they can hurt physically. I've been there, done that...and it was a long time ago, now...and it hurt me terribly. Think of going-to-bed-alone-feeling-like-your-heart-will-stop-before-you-fall-asleep kind of painful, and that's only as close as I can get to describing it. Your sexual intimacy with him was probably one of the nicest things you could do for him, but let's face it...nobody wants a sympathy f'. You'll eventually have to talk to him about why you did that with him, just so he won't feel like he was taking advantage of you or you were taking advantage of him. Sex between friends is supposed to be a great thing, and although you were both UTI when you did it, you probably felt he needed it at the time, and he probably wanted it just as badly as you thought he needed it. But that doesn't mean that he wants a relationship with you yet, either. It's going to take time and all you can do, if you're really his friend, is to just be there when he needs his friend. Over time, he may begin to see that you care for him a great deal, and while that may take time, eventually that little light bulb will go on in his head... Patience, Grasshopper...all will be revealed in the end.

Just read Ch. 40....Whew! There's gotta be another series to follow this up...right?

Nick, I have to agree with Mark above to some extent. You were making love, to your boyfriend who happens to be bi-sexual and in his female phase...it's just awkward, then, 'cause they don't see it for what it is. When in their female phase, making love is with a woman, rather than just sex-with-a-man, and when they're in their male phase they make love to men, and with women it's just sex. Being Gay, we tend to form our emotional bonds with someone WE love much easier than others. Straights and Bisexuals take longer (I fell in love with my husband 18 1/2 years ago when we first met, before we had sex, even) to form those emotional bonds, as there is more to "setting" the mood and environment for the emotions to come out (didn't think straights and bi's had to come "out" to each other, huh?). 'Drew is a bisexual, but it appears that he is the serial type (one at a time) rather than parallel (more than one at a time), and thinks that his "girlfriend" is worth getting back with, so he will need to try and either succeed or fail with her before he can progress into the next stage of his sexuality--this is where you come in. If she means her break-off to be complete, and you see it for this, then once he realizes it, he may also begin to see the love being offered in front of him. Then again, he may need to be romanced a bit, too, in order to realize it for what it is, that's part of that emotional set-up I mentioned earlier. Get ready to go a courtin'...sometimes you just gotta chase 'em down. You know, send candy to work one week, flowers the next...go on a date to a nice quiet restaurant that has his favorite dish with a little wine, send him a wrapped gift of something he likes (Teddy Bear? Big, soft, fluffy bathrobe?) the next... Good luck!

Hey, Rafe, I caught that veiled (thinly) reference, too, and it was sort of a bitter reminder of reality's biting all of us...

I have to agree, Connor. Brad seems to be very responsive to situations rather than reactive, which seems to cause him no end of problems...the current situation with Robbie notwithstanding. But, Mark, I hope that Brad notices Robbie watching him...I got the impression that Robbie was feeling very hurt, despite what he allowed to happen, and stopped that behavior at the party because of his love for Brad.

I knew for sure that I was gay when I was 10 years old, which upon thinking back, was just at the startup of puberty for me... :wacko: ...