Situation. Friday, bar, girlfriend, good wine. We finally breathed a sigh of relief after the work week. Conversations smoothly flow into gossip, and then the girlfriend blurts out: “Listen, how much can yours make per night?”, informs Ukr.Media.
I honestly don't understand at what point adult, seemingly adequate women turn into teenagers with rulers.
At such moments, time seems to stand still. Should we tell the truth that yesterday we just passed out watching a TV series? Should we lie about watching a marathon until five in the morning so as not to seem boring? Or should we just send this unhealthy interest to hell, risking ruining our relationship with our girlfriend?
We live in an era where it has somehow become the norm to turn our souls inside out. But behind all this trend of total sincerity, we have forgotten one simple thing: there is only room for two in a bed. A third is superfluous (at least I think so).
Not just friendly curiosity. Psychologists say that such questions are banal insecurity. The desire to “check the clock” to understand whether one's own life is up to some imaginary standard. We are used to measuring everything with numbers: salary, subscribers, steps per day on a smartwatch. This same habit has crept into intimacy. Conversations sometimes resemble a men's forum for car enthusiasts: who has a more powerful engine and how much horsepower under the hood. And the paradox is that most of these “records” are outright mythology.
If we put aside the fantasies from women's novels, the reality looks a little different. We are all adults with loans, anxiety and chronic sleep deprivation. The idea of “doing it until morning” sounds cool at twenty. At 38, the phrase seems much sexier: “Let's get some sleep, and in the morning if you make cheesecakes for the kid for school, then something is possible.” If my combine starts.
Plus, this sports mechanics just kills the point. Running marathons five times a night often turns into soulless cardio. Seriously, which is better: one run that will blow the roof off, or six three-minute runs for the sake of a check mark on an imaginary report card?
Let's say you decide to be frank. What will it end up like? If you say that everything is stable and calm for you – well, once or twice a week, when you have the strength – get ready for sympathetic looks and unobtrusive references to retreats on “unlocking feminine energy”. They will start to pity you.
If you say that you have a fire there and a ruptured aorta, it may offend the person at the table who is currently sleeping with her husband under different blankets and is going through a crisis. Jealousy is a kind of foundation for pleasant communication. And even worse – as soon as you voice the details, your partner ceases to be just a conditional Andrey or Sasha. He becomes an object of evaluation. Sometimes – and of hidden interest. It is not for nothing that they say that praising your man in a company is a frankly so-so idea.
So how do you get out of this conversation without lying or feeling like you're being interrogated? You can simply turn it all into a joke – say, we're not at the Olympics to stand around with a stopwatch. Or calmly say that you have just enough to feel completely satisfied. And for the especially persistent, there's always an armor-piercing argument: I once decided never to discuss my bedroom, let's just order another glass (which is what I told my friend).
After all, peace in your own relationship is somehow more important than the desire to win the contest for the most piquant story over a glass. Your bed is your territory. It has its own rhythms and rules, which you don't have to report to your mothers, social networks, or classmates.
Those who are really good usually don't shout about it. They just enjoy it. Or get enough sleep.
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