Showing posts with label Sarandon I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarandon I. Show all posts

Monday, February 16, 2015

The Anti-Crack Date





The Anti-Crack Date

Many of you who have read this blog for any time will no doubt take exception to my relentless attacks on the “crack heads,” those in the dating world who seek teen-like exuberant highs from their mid-life love interests.

“Of course I want to feel that excitement, Lex! That’s why I got divorced. Because the marriage was same-old, same-old every damn day and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I needed to feel vital and wanted and loved again!” And you know what it feels like to be loved and wanted, because, well, you already did this once back in your teens and twenties.

Ah hem.

My response is twofold.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

This is How I Love You, Baby


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 She said, "Why, why don't we drive through the night?
We'll wake up down in Mexico"


"Oh I, I don't know nothin' about, nothin' about, no Mexico
And tell me why, why won't you love me for who I am, where I am?"

She said
"'Cause that's not the way the world is, baby
This is how I love you, baby
This is how I love you, baby"


-- Paul Simon,  Hearts and Bones

Ain't that the truth.

Unlike many of my other stories in which I contend dating has changed over the last 20 years, I'm not sure this aspect of relationships has ever changed or ever will. To a significant extent, we love our partners because they fit into our lives, because they do what we want, because they comply, they relent, they give us our way.