Krista

You're welcome. Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas to you as well.

Yeah, the man likes to win little benign arguments against me. It is going to be a fatal flaw for him one of these days, I'm thinking. I'm joking... maybe. But yeah. There's typically no living with him for a bit when he gets a one-up on me.

Thank you! I tried my best... I think my sex scenes will always have a bit of awkward involved... but, it fits these two nicely, the awkward. Merry Christmas to you as well.

I'm just a sauce leaning person in general. I like dry rubs, sauces, marinates, dressings, seasonings, etc. I will take a bite or two of steak without anything on it, the way it came to be... so I know what the base steak tastes like. But yeah, afterwards I'll be looking for a sauce. Or, I will order a steak that comes with a dry rub, sauce, or marination already prepped for it. One of the best steaks I ever ate had a "tropical" dry rub, it had liked dried pineapple and such within the seasoning. The steak itself was tender and cooked to perfection, the chef worth their weight knows flavor profiles, no matter what they're cooking.. and this chef obviously did... and knew how to cook steak too. And I like my steak slightly above rare, some people call it medium rare, but I like it slightly less "medium.." I just don't want rare really.

What's this!?!? You can't be two-timing your editing/beta reading. You and I have been in this professional marriage since 2007ish. How dare you! Well I never thought I'd see the day.

Not you too... my goodness. I'll discuss your behavior later.

Edith needs to leave poor Harold alone. Let the man dream. lol

Yeah, their second time touching one another went a lot farther than I thought they'd be comfortable with going. At least for who they are as characters and where they are within life and the relationship in general.

Well... good thing he's not a member of this community. We can't have him see that a lot of you are taking his side on anything. No. It is not healthy for him. and he'd come off with something like.. "Ahaha the gays love me.." and I'll have to do constant damage control.

Oh goodness me...

If there were cameras, they got a bit of a show... at least an almost naked romp around the living room and kitchen from a dude they never met... something I hope to never see on any cameras, but we only have outside cameras around the house. And mostly we only see what my neighbor's cats are up to, birds, and the occasional raccoon or opossum. I do know when the Amazon orders get delivered though.

Lol. You kind of went through a bit of a rollercoaster of emotions there... 😮 I was being teamed up on! I couldn't think through the whole equation and come out with my own answer. All the peer pressures, promises, discussions I can't remember... But now I'm a bit more into my mind about where and how I want them to be.

Yeah! 110 notifications my goodness. I was here during the real time discussions and it was a lot. I did a lot of second glances and.. my most dominant thought was somewhere between... "my goodness..." and.. "oh my lord, why..." but I survived mostly. That whole beautiful scene was so cute when I wrote it. He did forget himself, allowed himself to be fully in the moment and it was so nice to see him like that. The whole night was a mix of nerves and freedom for him. I think we've all calmed down, maybe... As far as how they figure things out, I agree it will take more than a couple of times trying new things to really know what they like. I think that happens universally with this stuff... even with heterosexual couples. It shifts, when I was first thinking about this sort of thing I had some body hair hang-ups on guys, but now I don't mind body and/or facial hair. So even if one of them primarily does one thing now, later on down the road it may shift a bit... I don't like to live in constant absolutes, but I do know that with a lot of people there's a lot they won't do.

It was a bit of a waste of water... tsk tsk tsk.

Seems like a perfect guy night, to be fair. 😮 Even for a guy that doesn't really like pizza.

Yeah, very limited experiences there. Can't really expect the same outcome if you're watching such things on the interwebs either... it isn't realistic.

I was warned you had this kind of potential. *shakes head*

He gives me dirty looks when I reach for the sauce after he fixes steaks, but I smile and add more. I also like mine done a bit more than he does as well. I forgive him for his dirty jokes and what have you, he can forgive me this. Or he can be the little spoon to our 100lb lab/coon dog mix. I win a lot of disagreements with that threat alone. Taking away me as his plaything wins me the other half.

Excuse you, sir... but I'm innocent. Oh ffs, I finally responded to the fabulous one thing...

Me... totally me. I don't know if the therapist I'll be seeking out after this will be professionally prepared to handle all this.

Oh no, I've been married to that man long enough for him to have witnessed me watching saucy films. Well I make him watch them with me, to be fair (and I do mean actual Plot driven films like from Hollywood, before you people freak out). The other day I was watching Heated Rivalry on my laptop and he got curious right in the middle of one of the many sex scenes the show provides. Taught him a lesson, I'm sure.

Sigh.. I did. I gave right in to y'all, because this is new writing. It wasn't in the original. But I kept thinking... I can't allow this to not be a thing that I leave out. I have worked on their relationship up to the flirting, deeper thoughts, connections, and if I 'never' allow them to go where they're naturally wanting to go... I'll be ran out of my own comments section. But I may end up ran out anyway... 😮 but we'll see if I can be brave.