No Strings Attached :)

No Strings Attached - A term that means no other conditions (other than sex) is implied! A No Strings Attached relationship is different from a one night stand. A one night stand is just that. You do the do ONCE and leave it at that. No Strings Attached is when you agree that you both want a sexual relationship that will continue beyond one night, but will turn into anything more than sex. But is this really possible? I recently watched the movie "No Strings Attached," and started thinking about if it was really possible to have a No Strings Attached Arrangement! This  has also been a topic amongst my friends (guys and girls) and I for a while. We are kind of split down the middle. Some say of course it's possible,you just have to have rules to it and a cut off date when the arrangement ends, after all it's only sex. Others say, hell no it's not possible. Sex is an intimate thing that changes how people feel toward each other especially if it's with the same person on a regular basis. At some point during your arrangement you guys are gonna find something you like about each other that connects you and somebody's going to catch feelings. Some of my friends are like me and are not sure if they think it's actually possible or not.

I'm not actually sure if I think it's possible or not. I still question certain things like if it's different for a man than it is for a women? How long can you have this arrangement before somebody does catch feelings? What if one person wants to stop and the other doesn't then what? Can you have a no strings attached arrangement ONLY if you are both single, how does it work if only one of you are in a relationship? I'm just not sure which side I can agree with just yet. So even though I'm not sure if I believe that a No Strings Attached arrangement is possible without things getting complicated, I do however think that if both people can handle the situation it can be a very exciting thing!

No Strings Attached.......Is it Possible?

Dating!

What happened to the days when a guy would come and pick you up to take you to a nice dinner where you guys could talk and get to know each other, or at least what they wanted you to know about them and vice versa? What happened to the late night phone calls vs the quick text messages or a message on your Facebook wall? What in the hell has happened to actually dating before jumping into a relationship? Meaning tons of people are now caught up doing relationship thing without even being in a relationship. We have reached a point where dating is limited. It's gotten to the point that after a few conversations or a few times seeing a person a sexual relationship has started. People are starting to skip over the whole dating process and moving straight into a relationship without calling it a relationship and finding themselves in a situation they never wanted. Some people are built for this type of thing and some people are not.

Many people have very different ideas of what dating is. This can actually cause major confusion between two people if they have not clearly communicated what dating is to each of them, but let's be real who really does that anymore? Who really communicates about dating? Most women are afraid to even utter anything close to sounding like we are asking for a commitment with the fear that if they do, the guy is going to go running for the hills and nobody wants that, especially if the woman thinks he's a good dude. Then you have men that will go as long as they possible can without putting a label on anything. What are the chances are they are going to bring up the topic?

So when do you consider yourself dating someone? Is if after one date, two dates, how about three dates? Is it after you have established a sexually relationship with a person? Once you have considered yourself dating someone, should you not date other people? Wouldn't this be called a relationship?

The burning question is WHAT IS DATING? HAS YOUR IDEA OF DATING CHANGED FROM WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER?