The Secret Lives of Married Men
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Anyone read this article?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/me...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/me...
Article said:
Wives, here is a fact you definitely don’t want to know about your husband: he wants to shag your best friend. Not only does he want to shag your best friend, but also your second and third-best friends. (And fourth, fifth, sixth, etc.) There’s nothing personal about this. In fact, in a strange way, he means it as a compliment. You see, one of the many delightful things he has noticed about women is that they tend to associate with women who are on a roughly similar level of pulchritude and general hotness. So what he’s sorta, kinda saying when he fancies your friends is how much he fancies you. But he’d never try articulating any of this to you. It’s just one of those many things that Wives Just Don’t Understand.
Oh dear, I do wish I hadn’t written that paragraph. And I also wish I wasn’t about to write the rest of this article either. You see, as a man and a husband myself, I believe there are certain secrets to which the Opposition – ie, women/wives – should never be privy.
Yet just because I had a phone call from a female commissioning editor (with the same name as that of a girl I once snogged when I was a teenager, though no relation, apparently), I’ve decided to sell out the brotherhood for a few pieces of silver.
Sorry, chaps. My advice, if you want to get yourselves off the hook, is to look her in the eye and swear it’s all lies. Or at least a grotesque distortion of the truth. To help your case, you can point out that this piece is based on a mix of detailed interviews and half-remembered drunken pub chats with no more than a dozen men. They come from a wide range of backgrounds and income groups; some are recently married; some are on their second or third wives; some have had affairs; most haven’t (or not that they’ll admit to); at least one of them is gay.
Quite a funny read - but is it representative?Oh dear, I do wish I hadn’t written that paragraph. And I also wish I wasn’t about to write the rest of this article either. You see, as a man and a husband myself, I believe there are certain secrets to which the Opposition – ie, women/wives – should never be privy.
Yet just because I had a phone call from a female commissioning editor (with the same name as that of a girl I once snogged when I was a teenager, though no relation, apparently), I’ve decided to sell out the brotherhood for a few pieces of silver.
Sorry, chaps. My advice, if you want to get yourselves off the hook, is to look her in the eye and swear it’s all lies. Or at least a grotesque distortion of the truth. To help your case, you can point out that this piece is based on a mix of detailed interviews and half-remembered drunken pub chats with no more than a dozen men. They come from a wide range of backgrounds and income groups; some are recently married; some are on their second or third wives; some have had affairs; most haven’t (or not that they’ll admit to); at least one of them is gay.
Article said:
“I was with one of my clients the other day,” says Ben, who isn’t really a gym instructor, but I don’t want to tell you his real job in case his wife of two years recognises him. “Blonde, rich, late twenties, totally up for it. We got talking about sex and she asked me how I’d respond, being a married man, if we were alone and naked. And I said: ‘Obviously, I’d have to shag you.’ I mean, any man would, wouldn’t he? We’re terrible like that. Really, the only defence you’ve got is not to put yourself in any situation where something like that could happen – like meeting her after work for just the one drink, say. Once you’re there, you’re finished, aren’t you?”
Sage advice. Anyway sorry for the short post, just going to have a coffee with this hot new girl in the office. 
I'm not married, but I'd be lying if I hadn't thought about what SWMBOS sister, best friend, and half of her colleagues at the beauticians would be like .....
Not to mention a few of the teachers at her daughters school.
And about half of the women in the office.
But then I'm a bloke, and apparently we don't go for more than a few minutes without thinking about sex.
Not to mention a few of the teachers at her daughters school.
And about half of the women in the office.
But then I'm a bloke, and apparently we don't go for more than a few minutes without thinking about sex.
article said:
And although it isn’t true to say I buy things deliberately to annoy her, it’s definitely a good incentive. The other day I found this statuette on eBay, commissioned for a competition in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, of a female athlete raising her arm in an Olympic salute, which also looks quite Nazi. There’s a swastika stamped on the bottom. It was only £200, and it’s now in our sitting room, but my wife hates it. She says it’s a total waste of money and that everyone will think we’re Nazis.”
Let's face it these all men think this or that articles are generally simplistic nonsense aren't they really? That article is quite funny it's obviously written as a laugh not to be taken seriously.
To answer the OP though, I'd say that out of my male friends I'd say they are all very different types of bloke. I work with mainly women and go away with them a lot, I see many blokes put in positions of temptation and it's quite clear that they are all very different in their response to it.
To answer the OP though, I'd say that out of my male friends I'd say they are all very different types of bloke. I work with mainly women and go away with them a lot, I see many blokes put in positions of temptation and it's quite clear that they are all very different in their response to it.
ks. It is a well-known fact that women like to hang around with uglier women to enhance themselves in comparison.rocksteadyeddie said:
Article said:
“I was with one of my clients the other day,” says Ben, who isn’t really a gym instructor, but I don’t want to tell you his real job in case his wife of two years recognises him. “Blonde, rich, late twenties, totally up for it. We got talking about sex and she asked me how I’d respond, being a married man, if we were alone and naked. And I said: ‘Obviously, I’d have to shag you.’ I mean, any man would, wouldn’t he? We’re terrible like that. Really, the only defence you’ve got is not to put yourself in any situation where something like that could happen – like meeting her after work for just the one drink, say. Once you’re there, you’re finished, aren’t you?”
Sage advice. Anyway sorry for the short post, just going to have a coffee with this hot new girl in the office. Edited by Justayellowbadge on Tuesday 26th January 15:24
hornetrider said:
Article said:
Wives, here is a fact you definitely don’t want to know about your husband: he wants to shag your best friend. Not only does he want to shag your best friend, but also your second and third-best friends.
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