{"id":773,"date":"2009-11-11T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:33:28","slug":"sex-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Status Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully many of you already know there has been a recent change in my &#8220;status&#8221; from Married to Single.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t divorced (yet) nor truly separated (again, yet) but we&#8217;ve decided to &#8220;be single&#8221; and still live together due to financial reasons and because of our kids.\u00a0 And its helped.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happier and less frustrated at him and together we&#8217;re fine partners.\u00a0 He&#8217;s taken a more active role in consciously parenting instead of babysitting.\u00a0 And a more self-directed hand in his own life.<\/p>\n<p>That being announced&#8230; the news is I played and joined CougarConnection.com.\u00a0 After the debacle of going out to a bar myself and getting, well, ignored, by the groups of guys and girsl (gee, is he single?\u00a0 No he&#8217;s hugging her, wait&#8230; now he&#8217;s off to himself.. damn!\u00a0 I&#8217;m confused!)\u00a0 I thought going directly to a source of what I&#8217;m looking for might be more efficient.\u00a0 And you know me ladies, I&#8217;m always efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Eithne had finally taken some good shots of me and I filled out the endless questionnaire about myself and my preferences.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank God there were boxes to check! I did that 2 weeks ago tomorrow, on a Thursday evening&#8230; giving up half way on their questionnaires by 11p and went to bed.\u00a0 And I was honest.\u00a0 In my profile I listed specifically what I was looking for and what I wasn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Just Friends with Benefits, preferably ones I get along with so they can be FRIENDS and preferably ones that spark my libido so there are BENEFITS.\u00a0 And if I&#8217;m lucky&#8230; a little fantasy realization.<\/p>\n<p>The next AM I went to the site to fill out the rest of the questionnaire and I was floored.\u00a0 I had 9 emails.\u00a0 By the end of that day I had 20!\u00a0 It was a feeding frenzy!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if its the pix or what I wrote or the fact it was a &#8220;real&#8221; woman on the site which is apparently 100\/1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 guys\/girls but I spent a week trying to answer all the interest.\u00a0 As of this date I&#8217;ve said &#8220;no&#8221; to over 200 men.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve said yes to several.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and ladies, these guys are hot and cute and real and interesting.\u00a0 And they all want me.\u00a0 My ego is on its way to Mars!\u00a0\u00a0 And the pictures while good, don&#8217;t capture the spark that is my personality&#8230; so I&#8217;ve been having the fun of truly surprising them when they get into emailing me and meeting me.\u00a0 What&#8217;s that McDonalds jingle&#8230;&#8221;ba, ba, ba, ba ba, I&#8217;m loving it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow&#8230; I can hear the cringing through the internet!\u00a0 &#8220;Be safe!&#8221; &#8220;I worry!&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you can do that.&#8221;\u00a0 I can do it because I&#8217;m a doer.\u00a0 When I want something I&#8217;m going to go after it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve wanted lust in my life (and yes, ladies, I want lust not love) for over a year.\u00a0 Fate has handed it to me and I&#8217;m going to grab it for all its worth.\u00a0 Or grab them for all they&#8217;re worth&#8230; WHATEVER!!<\/p>\n<p>Just think of me as your little test subject.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to be as wildly free and into your sexuality as me to enjoy this site.\u00a0 You just have to be open to sex in the relationship, when you&#8217;re ready.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell you how many men I rejected who were looking for Long Term Relationships, long walks on the beach, hours of massage,\u00a0yada, yada yada.<\/p>\n<p>I kept thinking of you guys every time I read\u00a0a profile like that.\u00a0 Were they lying, probably not&#8230; were they desperate?\u00a0 Well,\u00a0THAT&#8217;S a whole other\u00a0story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully many of you already know there has been a recent change in my &#8220;status&#8221; from Married to Single.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t divorced (yet) nor truly separated (again, yet) but we&#8217;ve decided to &#8220;be single&#8221; and still live together due to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=773\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}