{"id":968,"date":"2010-01-28T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:06:50","slug":"fwb-vs-dirty-sexy-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"FWB vs Dirty Sexy Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>So I&#8217;m days away from closing my profile to incoming emails and taking stock of the interesting men I&#8217;ve met in the last 3 months.\u00a0\u00a0 OMG&#8230; I&#8217;m so looking forward to it!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong.. I love that site and I&#8217;ll NEVER leave it, \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 But its addicting and distracting and I can&#8217;t enjoy the men I prefer because I&#8217;m too busy noticing the new men emailing me. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>And I&#8217;m beginning to establish more of what I&#8217;m looking for in my mind.\u00a0 I realize that often I&#8217;ve felt more like a Dirty, Sexy Secret than an FWB.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; I don&#8217;t want to be anyone&#8217;s girlfriend or anyone&#8217;s &#8220;only one&#8221; but if you can&#8217;t be seen with me in public or are uncomfortable if I want to lust you in public, then we have a problem.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Friends part is important.\u00a0 Movies, dinner, the beach (although I may enjoy watching you sport in the water than actually join you there&#8230;\u00a0 I\u00a0 make a great &#8220;watch the stuff&#8221; girl lol!) a concert, dancing, even a play (although it better not be a musical!).\u00a0\u00a0 All these things add to the friendship without having to be a relationship.\u00a0 Because it allows us to enjoy each other in a way that is in addition to sex. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>As much as sex is important to me, it&#8217;s not all of me.\u00a0 Humor is a BIG part of who I am.\u00a0 And enjoying the company of a person is also a big part of that as I&#8217;m something of an extrovert.\u00a0 Experiencing fun and interesting things an absolute MUST for 2010.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The funny thing is, I don&#8217;t want to meet anyone&#8217;s family.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t necessarily want to meet anyone&#8217;s freinds, although THAT I&#8217;m not so opposed to as it could be fun.\u00a0 When I interviewed a bunch of 22 year olds at a BBQ a year ago for my book\u00a0we had a blast!\u00a0\u00a0 And I was reigning in all my Seduction Aura at the time!\u00a0 No\u00a0such leash these days&#8230; hee hee.\u00a0 Boggles the mind how much fun could be had with a group at a club. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Yet finding a few FBW&#8217;s held several steps.\u00a0\u00a0 Meeting them, enjoying them to see if the lust can translate into the bedroom and then seeing them again.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never managed to make it to the last stage!\u00a0 So when I realized my Silver Member ship was about to expire, which allows me to view profiles of men who&#8217;d emailed me, I took it as the perfect opportunity to close the door.\u00a0 Temporarily. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>And now that its almost closing time I wonder if my FWB definition is different than theirs?\u00a0 Does their idea of an\u00a0FWB hold so much discretion that we only meet in hotels and never go out in public?\u00a0\u00a0 I think to myself.. I haven&#8217;t seen Avatar and would like to.\u00a0 Should I ask someone?\u00a0 Will they want to go?\u00a0\u00a0 And what if I win Coachella tix?\u00a0 Should I take a playmate?\u00a0 Who would go?\u00a0 Who would want to go?\u00a0 And would they try to play it discreet?\u00a0 (I&#8217;m starting to dislike that word.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>I have a free Vegas trip coming up.\u00a0 Planning on the summer as its mid-week and will be taking my long-suffering girlfriend who needs a few days away.. but I ask myself&#8230; would an FWB even want to go?\u00a0\u00a0 And would I want him to go or just go play in Vegas?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>lol&#8230; I can hear all of you laughing at the silliness of my thought process.\u00a0 Just be thankful I wrote this blog today and not the one I&#8217;d thought to write about Penis&#8217;s.\u00a0 (penii!\u00a0 Whatever!!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m days away from closing my profile to incoming emails and taking stock of the interesting men I&#8217;ve met in the last 3 months.\u00a0\u00a0 OMG&#8230; I&#8217;m so looking forward to it!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong.. 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