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Sexual energy pervades everything all the time; we inhale it into our lungs and exude it from our pores.
Some can be sexual with any gender but romantic with only one, or vice versa, and so on, throughout the universe of bisexual attractions and choices.
do you really have to stay over and have breakfast together the next day, or would an hour or two of cuddling and talk be just as nice?
when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself.
Was it with a polite and friendly but unmistakable “No, thanks”? Or was it with “Not tonight; I’ve got a headache” or “Maybe another time” or “I’ll think about it”? We strongly suggest you work out a “No, thanks” that feels comfortable to you; expecting the interested party to read your mind and somehow know that your “maybe…” means “no” is neither ethical nor slutty.
(which must,
according to the rules, be handed back after due admiration, just like adult toys).
The binary nature of monogamy-centrist thinking tends, we think, to cause problems: you’re either the love of my life or you’re out of here.
Khalil Gibran wrote something truly profound about the nature of pain: “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
it is very, very worthwhile to learn to have your feelings without foisting them on someone else.