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The life and times of a masculine, closeted, bisexual man.
Although for years I've buzzed my chest, and body hair, in the summer, I've always felt some sort of self-consciousness. I feel like someone's going to notice, say something...and it's just a conversation I'd rather not have.
Two weeks ago, this same hairy guy was sitting next to me. I noticed his upper arms were shaved..like the area around his shoulders and stuff. I thought that was odd for him..who is not a metro-sexual at all. Anyway, this week, I notice his chest hair has been trimmed quite a bit. It really was very surprising. I didn't feel the need to make any comment..hey..I don't like to be asked, so I figure why put him in an uncomfortable situation.
Last week, Howard Stern had Lady Gaga on his Sirius XM radio station for an interview. It was an in depth (90 minute) interview and a coup for the Media Mogul to get such a star in the prime of her career.
On her popularity and multi-million dollars in sales...
Well, I guess it's official. Today, all same sex couples can legally get married in the State of New York. But what is a victory for equal rights, and has been celebrated world-wide as an advancement of gay rights does bring some sense of added pressure to same-sex couples.
What if you liked the insecurity that existed before? Maybe it allowed you to make a un-committed commitment? There's nothing legally binding you two together...but, does he/she want that commitment? Will it ruin what we have?
From my blog buddy at New Day, New Life. He kinda captures the essence of being bi/gay/questioning, married and in the closet:
Well, yesterdays unsuccessful hook-up still left me horny, and like I tried to do the day before, I needed to blow a load. I was going to be busy at work for the next few days, and I didn't need the distraction of needing to find someone to hook up with, so, again, back to the cam.Q: Sometime, a guy is someone you want to know, what does he like, what's he thinking, what does he do for a living?
Others, the guy's a piece of meat. I just want him..
Guess which one this guy is:
OK. I'm gonna be like everyone else who blogs. I think my blog is one of the best non-professional blogs there is. I take pride in it. I don't really self-promote, asking people to vote for my blog, but others are stuffing the ballot box.
I know you guys are religiously visiting my blog, because I see nearly 4,000 hits daily. But, I get a lot of visitors from sites such as Best Male Blogs and PLU too. In order to increase traffic, a higher rating means more traffic and visibility.
So, let's try and make my blog in the top 5! Everyone who visits here, please vote for me at the following two sites. (5 is best!)
(On PLU search for my blog. Should be in the first 3 pages!)
Thanks!
-BLM


"Frank?" I say.
My talk with my divorcing friends over the past few weeks has gotten me to thinking. They say things changed, that people stopped caring, stopped interacting. What causes that?
One day, I got a call from my Mom. I had to come quick..take the next plane out. My father isn't well. I book a flight...race to the airport, and nervously wait. I must be there..I have to see him. I want to be there for my mother. The plane is inexplicably delayed. Then again. Finally, we board and take off, then more than five hours later for a normal 2 1/2 hour trip - we finally land.
I hug my Mom, cry and we go to see my father. I then head to another room to make some calls...and inform the family that my father has died. I get angrier and angrier...I tell my wife how I was delayed, how I rushed, how I just missed being with my Mom and father when I was needed most. I'm hysterical, I'm mentally exhausted, I'm fuming with anger and now livid!
We harden. Yes, I hardened, and I don't mean sexually. Life hardens you. It makes you angry. It makes you sad. It causes you to lose the emotions that made life fun, the child-like feeling that you can do no wrong. You lose the innocence: the belief in Santa, the tooth fairy, or that Willy Wonka really does live.
I don't hate women. After all, I actually liked them enough to marry one!
But, it's not the first time I've been accused of being a women hater..and probably not the last. But, have you ever seen the Oprah show? They bash men. The View? Bunch of cackling chicks joking about guys. Hey, if you're going to ask a person for their stories it's obviously going to be one-sex-sided. Oprah has often been accused of being a man-basher (and a closet lesbian). That doesn't make her opinion or show any less popular.
I seem to be gaining a few more lady readers at Bi Like Me. They often criticize me for being a hater..always taking the man's side of things...well..I AM a man! What do you want? the women's side? It's not anatomically possible!
I am and have always been a champion of women's rights and have, in the past, written about my support for a Women's Right to Choose. I'm no hater..but there are I suppose, some views that I am going to have that are going to be, naturally, one-sided.
I also get that while my blog is supposedly a bisexual blog, that I don't have stories of me engaging in sex with girls, or pictures of naked women on here. Well, yea, I guess I live the straight life...and could have named this blog "Straight Like Me"..and it being about how..I'm not quite straight.
Or I could have named the blog "Gay Like Me". Maybe that's more appropriate..this blog being about me being married, yet..OK..I'll say it..gay. But, being married..I thought..and for a long time..always thought I was bi. It's Bi Like Me..not like you..not like the other guy's Bi life..it's how I have evolved..how I've define the "Bi" life. It doesn't have to be the textbook definition of bi...or even your definition of bi.
Some of the ladies that have commented on my blog run their own, very interesting blogs. Some are just readers..who I assume have come across my blog and have become interested...without any background or experience in gay/bi relationship. Others, have a clear history. Maggie is an ex-wife of a gay man. She has an interesting blog..but, obviously, has "issues" with regard to closeted married men who are gay/bi. You're blog entries are littered with comments questioning other blogs like mine about the sexuality of the writers. You are, understandably, biased toward men coming out to their wives. That doesn't make your blog wrong or anti-male. It's just written from a life full of your experiences.
My hope is that with the input of others, whether they're guys or girls, that we can all learn from each other here. I am not without faults or biases..and I don't think any of us are.
I read your comments and blogs with interest. Don't expect me to cry over breaking a nail though.
As I've blogged before in a previous post, some very close family friends have decided to call it quits as in get a divorce. To bring you up to speed, despite many talks with the husband, over the years, about marriage, kids, etc., he's had it and has left his wife.
"I don't need him. I have my family and friends to lean on. I don't need him anymore." she says.
I continued: "This breakup isn't just hard for you" as tears began to well-up in my eyes." "It's hard for all of us. But, while I'll be here for you should you need me, I'm also his friend, also love him and I'm there for him too. I don't want to hear stories about personal marital issues, things that are private, things that have no use to me or anyone. They are things that happened in the past and now you have to look to the future and have some kind of relationship with him, for your kids."
I lay down on my stomach across his bed, with a pillow under my head. He pulls off his shirt, and straddles me, oddly, still in his jeans. He gets some oil and pours it in his hands and begins rubbing my back and neck. I love massages and at this point, really needed one to get out some knots that have been bothering me. He continues to rub. He told me online that he wasn't any expert, and he clearly wasn't, but as he said, he's a "pleaser" and he enjoyed giving massages, and he's never heard any complaints. He wasn't getting any complaints from me. The massage was strong and firm, which is rule #1 for a good massage. Most non-pros give wimpy rubs that are more annoying than therapeutic. This guy was much better than that.
He shows me pictures of him and his boyfriend. I see the love he had for him, and the understand the subsequent pain of losing him brought him.
During the summer, I spend lots of time at the beach..mostly with family and friends. Occasionally, I'll play hookie on a Friday, and hit one of the lesser known and little used beaches in the area. They're known to be either gay/nude or cruisy.
We continued to make some small talk and after his walk, he returned to his blanket. Later that day, I log onto Grindr and actually see a profile of a shaved-head lean guy..saying 1,200 feet away. I chat him and say hi. He responds and says hi..that he was at the beach (Duh!) I said I was there too and that the location should read 15 feet instead. He laughed and I guess realized who he was talking to.
I hit the spa for a relaxing day, hoping that maybe I'd find luck there again. I was pretty horny, and it had been weeks since I hung with another guy.
I walk in a second to two behind him and he's no longer on the phone, but butt naked walking into the shower. I ask him if this is the best place for reception and chuckles and says yes.
I look around at the spa, and guys come in all shapes and sizes..and I'm not talking body sizes either! Some guys cocks are oddly shaped I think. You see it online, in porn and stuff. They hook right, hook left, curve up, curve down and some bend in hurtful looking ways.
So, finally found match. Too bad he's on the other side of the world!
I'm in an opened relationship with three other guys. We live to gather and share the same bed every night. The only thing is missing for me is sex. Not the meaningless ones. I'm always looking for a steady boy friend or playmate who is ok to share me with three other guys but have me just for himself in the sexual part. There is no sex in my family of four because we been together long enough that no one find attraction in each other any more. We love and care for each other deeply and would never run off with any random guy a long the way. That doesn't mean that we can have fun.© Blogger templates Brooklyn by Ourblogtemplates.com 2008
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