Down-n-Dirty Blog on Relationships

Published by admin on June 13, 2017

Sex: A Cheap Imitation of Eros

Sex is cheap. There, I said it. And, I’ll say it again: Sex. Is. Cheap. We see so many images of the feminine everywhere. Magazines. Commercials. Holiday parties… and it’s all cheap, cheap, cheap. A cheap imitation. Of what, you ask? Eros. I used to see women walking around in their form-fitting clothing, and it…

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Published by admin on June 3, 2017

The boy who was afraid to use emojis

There were emojis before there were emojis. We just did them, you know, without having to have a fancy millennial word attached.   Take the smiley face, for example. Just a simple round line and two dots.   When I was in middle school, I would watch girls write notes to each other; almost inevitably,…

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Published by admin on June 2, 2017

Maybe

  I told you it was about freedom, but that’s only half the story.   Maybe it’s not that you’ll smother me or take my freedom; but that in submitting to your love,  I’ll be annihilated.   Maybe the me you’ll slay isn’t the real me,  but the imposter posing as me. Maybe.   www.alexobed.com…

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Published by admin on May 29, 2017

Real Talk 4 Men Dating Women

  You’re dating someone you like. You can tell she’s into you. You’re into her, too. But you still have a few women that you’ve been working on the side. To be fair: you knew these women before you met her. So… you’re not really doing anything wrong by talking to them now. And it’s just…

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Published by admin on May 6, 2017

A Metaphor about Privilege

As a child, I would hold an apple seed in the palm of my hand and contemplate, really contemplate, how that tiny little seed could become the monstrosity of a fully-grown tree. How could something so large be contained in something so tiny? As an adult, I know that the tree is not actually contained in the seed. Well,…

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Published by admin on April 29, 2017

*Before Sunset in LA

On recommendation from a film buff I stream Before (not Beyond) Sunset. It’s horrible. A little.   Anyway, predicting the sex scene to come (so maybe it gets better) I hit pause and go for a whiz. I decide to hit the 1/2 spliff that I had left on the glass table outside my door. In…

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Published by admin on March 6, 2017

How to Get Off the Rollercoaster of Relationships

During the final months of my last relationship, I noticed that when I was unbelievably happy, she was almost never happy; and when she was in splendorous moods of joy, I was totally down and out. It’s like our cycles were inverted. And it was hell.  How did it get this way, I wondered. We started off so…

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