11-05-2014, 04:59 AM
(11-03-2014, 07:06 AM)athanas Wrote: I admire your resolution, I have a hard time going sober myself. It's just too tempting if I know my game could be 10 times better just with a bit of alc. Well at last the first half of the night, the second half the right calibration of tension just gets harder and harder making me **** up much of what I built up with my awesome care free state in the beginning.
Nowadays I usually feel like I need 1 or 2 beers/drinks to counter the performance anxiety I create for myself during the initial part of the night, e.g. I need to find something to do, somewhere to be, approach girls, have fun, etc. I can get the sexual vibe going sober and dancing sober isn't too much of an issue anymore either. So once I get "settled in", I can switch to coke or water. Then again if I can't find anything to do, or anyone to approach, I'll start getting a bit anxious so I might have a drink again. But really its probably a much better option to just feel the anxiety fully, then go home at the end of the night and pstec that shit away. I only drink alcohol to be free of those anxieties, so better to actually just accept & deal with them. As you said, the alc is very tempting every time, but if I really think about it... its a weekly activity that I have been doing and will continue to do for a long time.. so which would I rather do: cover the anxiety up with alc, or clear it away with pstec? In 3, 6 or 12 months, how would my results differ? lol. I'll still probably have that 1st drink as that's just often so enjoyable.
I'm down to 1 or 2 cups of coffee most days, sometimes none. I'll have a cup just before I go out and then 1-3 big cokes at the club. Its all fine if I go out just once a week, but the alc + caffeine + lost sleep makes it much harder to go out the following day (and enjoy it). I hate forcing myself to go out if I'm not feeling like having fun. On the other hand I know I'm just afraid that it'll go badly, but on the other hand it just sounds needy to have to go out if that's not what I really want to do.
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Stage 3, Day 9. I went out with girl #2 yesterday. I tried to get her to come to my place directly, but she wasn't having any of that and seemed like she might start playing hard to get by the way she was texting me that day. But it was all good when I finally saw her, lots of fun actually. She's is really freaking sweet & gorgeous, imo. We went for a drink and talked. She was very responsive, asking me questions, contributing, good eye contact, sly smiles, at one point she was biting her lower lip and such. I stopped speaking mid-sentence once or twice b/c there was so much hinting in the eye contact somehow. I was in my affectionate touching mode, mostly thighs under the table, and she did it back to me a few times. I then took us to another bar for a beer. After that we just left and walked directly to my place. Neither of us suggested or mentioned it, we just both knew we were going there. Then inside I actually tried to make some tea first, but she was coming on so strong I had to throw her on the bed, lol. We did not have sex yet, because she didn't want to, and I honestly don't mind the wait. She seemed very relieved that I was so fine with not rushing the sex and just enjoying the fun, joking about it. I want to have that relaxed & trusting human connection, not shields-up regret-later achievement sex. And there was so much kissing, touching, stroking and painfully suggestive finger sucking anyways that.. its all good :)
One thing I found interesting was that she seems quite a bit younger than me, but she has never asked me about my age at point. And she's definitely not too shy or anything, so its a deliberate decision on her part. Anyway, I hadn't been on a date for a long time and its a lot of fun to go with someone who really wants it go well, instead of holding back and/or trying to enforce their selector frame on me.
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