Day #3: KY Intimacy Challenge

Today everything old was supposed to be new again. And I mean really old. Chris and I met in high school. In fact I’m pretty sure an ex-boyfriend introduced him to me (hey, thanks!) and pretty much this routine is like…seriously, a routine. Like most old married couples, our days revolve around getting groceries, feeding the cats, getting Charlotte to school, discussing her lack of apparent Southern hospitality, followed up by a good healthy dose of CSI. Oh, dont forget about a rousing game of “do you know where the remote is?”.

And its not like we don’t try. We just don’t try every day. Or every month.

Day Challenge

List out all the things that turned you on when you first met your partner.

I said: His teeth. I know, pathetically weird answer. He still has absolutely beautiful white teeth. He would probably tell you that his hair was his best asset back in the day, but that is because he had to have spent 45 minutes blow-drying it in the morning.

He Said: I was cute and petite and he felt like he could protect me…all 142 pounds of him.

Secondly they want you to ask…are those things still true?

I said: Well thankfully the 90210 hair has been retired, but yes, his teeth are still flawless. More than that, he was just a boy when I met him but now is a grown man, so really his attributes have gotten stronger over our relationship.

He said: You’re not cute and petite anymore. How do I say this without making this sound weird? Your “womanly”. You have grown out of the ugly duckling stage.

Good lord, he needs to stop while he is ahead.

Maturity clearly has its advantages.

Regarding negatives, I think overall Chris can be negative with no need to be. I know where he gets it, but the truth is he doesn’t need to be negative. Sometimes the smallest thing can be the biggest thing to him and his patience isn’t exactly what it used to be. I suppose having a child does that to you. I also cant stand that he drapes his clothes on the bottom of the bed rail, but I’m pretty sure he cant stand that I leave towels on the bathroom floor, so you take some, you give some.

Chris said that my most negative attribute is that I am stubborn and hard headed.

If you are wondering, today didn’t end in a fight like yesterday. Amazing.

Evening Challenge

This part of the KY Challenge was pretty funny. They wanted you to head out, separately, to a previously agreed upon pickup spot and “meet” each other. Totally come up with a name, a profession, all of it and basically meet, flirt, and rekindle the old…to new.  This would have been all fine and dandy if my profession wasn’t “Single mom of 6 year old whom is currently pregnant”.

That isn’t exactly hot barfly material.

Even if it would have been fun to play along on this adventure, we have a child with a bedtime and going out to meet each other on a school night…doesn’t exactly sound like a good parenting technique. Oh, and its that little thing about leaving your child at home unattended is against the law rule.

We did however go out to a Superbowl party, with Charlotte, and hung out with friends which totally deviates from the norm around here. Usually its just us and a DVR. Getting out to be an adult and hang with adults watching an adult program has its own factor of old being new again.

So we DID have fun.

Now I would love to sit here and digress on more of our insanely interesting life, but tonight says something about nudity and the couch, and I think I can hear my DH tapping in impatience….in the other room….nude.

XOXO

~Trisha

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Catch up!

• KY Day #2 Intimacy Challenge
• KY Day #1 Intimacy Challenge
• I wrote this posting while participating in a blog campaign on behalf of K-Y^® Brand and also received product samples to help facilitate my review. In addition, K-Y^® Brand sent me a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate. You didn’t think I was gonna talk about my sex life for 10 days for your personal enjoyment, right?