June 22, 2012
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How Do You Express Your Love?
Love starts to fall apart….once you try to understand it.First off, I’m not an expert on love or the mental mush that regurgitates from it, but non the less, I am a victim. The only love experts, that I’m aware of, conduct their seminars in cheap hotel rooms at $50 a pop. However….I do have some expertise at expressing it. In my early life, I had over a thousand girlfriends. Granted….most were only for a weekend and all their names were ‘Sugar”, but the point is, I was able to craft the fine art of ‘whoopie’ and ‘sweet nothings’. Before you snort and lean back from your monitor shaking your head, hear me out.
I have always adored women and all the complexities of their species. Often bewildering, but none the less fascinating. They have strengths and endurances comparable to the great wall of China. They also have their weaknesses, similar to week old pudding. One weakness….is that they need to be shown love, both expressed and felt. Some men take advantage of this condition and swoop in like a horny orangutan swinging from one vulnerable tree to another. Little do these testosterone gorged primates realize, that certain women, once abused and used, often render these men in highlighted chalk outlines and mentioned on the eleven o’clock news.
Now….how do you express love? A bouquet of roses, a fine dinner with wine? Or maybe a soft whisper of your intentions to copulate later like wildebeest on your apartment’s futon. Maybe you’re the type that buys those over priced ‘Happy Cards’, and hands them out with adolescent scripts and crude drawings of body parts.
Then again, maybe you’re boring and old fashion like me. Yep, a simple look….a quiet pause….and then, “I love you.” It ain’t Shakespeare, but the ‘Bard’ wrote over a million words trying to analyze those three simplistic words and was never satisfied. Seems my wife can do it with a gentle smile and a caressing look.
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet….”
Romeo & Juliet – Act 2, Scene 1
Comments (18)
You are an outstanding writer, both funny and thought provoking. So glad you are on this site.
My wife and I were so in tune, that many times words were useless. We were kind of like the couples in the Cialis commercials, sans hot tub.
@RighteousBruin - YAY for ‘sans hot tubs.’ I don’t understand those any way.
There are a million and one different ways and sometimes no words are the best of all.
@MzSilver - So true
@RighteousBruin - We had a thing for showers.
I really don’t care for coffee,but I fix a pot in the morning for her.I drink a cup just to drink it,but she has been staying with my youngest daughter the past week since she just had a baby and the coffee pot has not been touched.Whe I get home from a rough days work and she had a rough day and didn’t feel like cooking,I either fix something or go get something and bring it home(whatever she wants,usually Cracker Barrell).I fix her a bowl of ice cream every night with home made hot fudge and give it to her in bed well she winds down.
What I’m saying is just simply everyday things,it doesn’t have to be something you spent loads on,just thoughtfullness.They want to know you were thinking of them.I strike out a lot,but like Babe Ruth,I also knock a lot outta da park!
@Somefishytales - Giving a good foot massage is love……
@UncCharlie - Yup,done that!My hands are bigger than her feet too LOL
sweet and beautiful. and i so know what you’re talking about
My husband and I have been married 39 years, and we are more in love than ever. My husband expresses his love in so many little ways. He shows he cares for me, and he helps me with things that are hard for me. He always offers me his arm when we walk, and when we are going someplace, he parks as close as he can, because he knows it is hard for me to walk far. He is considerate and faithful in so many ways. I love to just listen to him, give him back rubs and take care of him. The words I LOVE YOU are said often and meant deeply. We have mutual respect for each other, and we appreciate each other. These things have come with time and commitment.
very sweet
Love is best expressed in little ways….a cup of coffee fixed just the way you like it, brought to you while you’re reading the paper, a sexy text while you’re at work on a wednesday afternoon, a nuzzle on the neck when you’re doing the dishes.
@WakeUpLaughing - Just the very simple things make all the difference.
Sometime expressions of love come easy…. other times not so…
I have always appreciated a woman who expresses her love for me by baking chocolate chip cookies.
Got to handed to you, Charlie, seems you were one lover boy with those thousand girlfriends. Can’t go wrong with calling them all Sugar. I wasn’t as good as you, but will confess,Ishould of used your tactic of calling them all Sugar. It would of helped me when love time came around. You see, in the moment of great orgasmic excitement, I sometimes confused one with another and called them by their incorrect names. What a bummer !
@Aloysius_son - Wins me every time.
I express love through kindness and actions. I do not fart in public and blame it on hubby anymore. Wish I could say the same about him:)