{"id":923,"date":"2003-12-03T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/sleeping-alone-sucks\/"},"modified":"2003-12-03T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T08:14:00","slug":"sleeping-alone-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/sleeping-alone-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping alone sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, for most of my close friends, this will be another &#8220;oh dear gawd, not again&#8221; post, but meh, this is my blog dagnabbit, I can be as despotic as I damn well want :)<\/p>\n<p>I&apos;ve come to the conclusion that I&apos;m an atypical man. Though <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,8028959^13762,00.html\">recend evidence<\/a> seems to point out that I&apos;m not the only one to feel this way, anecdotal evidence from the women in my life would seem to indicate that I&apos;m in a minority. Then again, the women in my life might not represent a good sampling either :)<\/p>\n<p>So for those of who who wonder what the hell I&apos;m talking about, here&apos;s the deal. Sleeping alone sucks, and cuddling is better than wild monkey sex. Yes, there, I&apos;ve said it. My dirty little secret is out. I&apos;m a cuddler. Comments I&apos;ve gotten from my friends include: &#8220;dude, you&apos;re a chick!&#8221;, various gagging and puking sounds, and one indicating that I was smart to play up the sensitivity side to impress girls and get them into bed. (Side note, the first two comments come from women, the last, from a guy). <\/p>\n<p>Now don&apos;t get me wrong. I like sex. I&apos;ve had sex. Sex is good. But I don&apos;t do casual sex. Because of a story that&apos;s way too long to tell right now, and is also out of scope, I attach a very high emotional content to the act, and thus, have only had the occasion to do it with one partner. I&apos;ve taken the decision to not have sex with people I&apos;m not ready to say &#8220;I love you&#8221; and mean it. It&apos;s a house rule. <\/p>\n<p>So, basically, until I find a steady companion, no sex. But I still seek intimacy, and love physical human contact. Having my haircut is one of the most sensual acts that I can do with my clothes on. Hence, cuddling. <\/p>\n<p>Recent events have reminded me how enjoyable it is to share bed real-estate with a warm body. The feel of smooth skin, the smell of a person, shared body heat. The knowledge that someone trusts you enough to let you in to their personal space. I&apos;ll keep a very good memory of that night for a long time to come. I&apos;ll admit that the line between a platonic cuddling and something more is easily crossed, but the take home message for this post is, as I&apos;m writing it from my laptop in my bed, sleeping alone sucks, and a pillow just doesn&apos;t cut it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Good night :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, for most of my close friends, this will be another &#8220;oh dear gawd, not again&#8221; post, but meh, this is my blog dagnabbit, I can be as despotic as I damn well want :) I&apos;ve come to the conclusion that I&apos;m an atypical man. Though recend evidence seems to point out that I&apos;m not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/sleeping-alone-sucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sleeping alone sucks&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-eT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}