The relationship fairy rides AGAIN!

In My Humble Opinion
1

She’s dressed in Kevlar and, frankly, she’s pissed at the lot of you. Never threaten a relationship fairy with death, people!

In any case, Relationship Fairy is plotting her revenge on you for not appreciating her other offerings. But she’s a kind, forgiving fairy. So, she’s giving you a choice.

In your romantic relationship, you must choose between going without speaking or going without touching for one month. If you don’t currently have a romantic relationship, the RF will just wait until you do.

Ready, set, choose.

2

Somebody has to remind him to take out the trash. Touch it is.

3

Well, it’s a tough choice, but I opted for touch. He’s my best friend and I would be really lonely if I couldn’t talk to him for a month.

4

Speaking is only verbal communication, yes? We could still write notes to each other, sign, etc?

In that case, I’ll pick speaking to go and touch to stay.

5

I can’t imagine the frustration of being close enough to talk to each other, yet not able to touch. Especially since there are ways of communicating other than speech.

6

I’d skip speaking. We could email a lot to keep communicating.

But to not touch? No way!

7

Wait . . . I can touch her–like, touch her all over–without having to talk with her?

Where’s the catch?

8

I’m in a long-distance relationship, and I go long periods of time without the benefit of the touch. I would be really unhappy if we couldn’t talk.

I mean, I’d be really unhappy either way, and the Relationship Fairy would die, but I’m still choosing to go without touch.

9

It might have been interesting to break up the poll by gender. I think most men would skip talking and most women would skip touching.

As a way of making it a real choice, perhaps we could replace “speaking” with “communicating” since, as others have pointed out, it’s rather easy to replace speaking with writing.
Male: I’d skip speaking.

10

Touching, for sure. Hell, we’ve had that experience in our lives quite often. The wife is often gone on business or family matters for weeks at a time, and we pursued a long-distance relationship when we were courting. I can do “no touching” (her) for a month without breaking a sweat.

11

Female. I’d skip speaking. Having spent varying lengths of time apart from SOs (from a week to a year), what I always miss the most, what I daydream about most, and what I look most forward to doing again is touching them.

12

I would go without speaking.

13

Female. I’d skip speaking. If I’m in the same room with him and can’t touch him, it drives me crazy. (Granted, it’s an LDR right now, so the touching is what would, and does, go, but I’m projecting into a regular relationship).

14

Male. I’d forgo touching.

15

I haven’t touched the one I consider my SO in months. So I can (reluctantly) give up that.

But speaking? Hear his voice? Communicate with him? It’s the only way we can keep in touch (heh).

16

Hey, if we can’t talk, then he can’t talk to me…but I can tickle him!

Perfect.

17

Shut up and touch me.

18

Can we make boopy/nonsensical noises?

19

No touching, all it means is that someone is traveling. I can do that. But no communication? Whether someone is traveling or not, that’s size=11 BAD.

20

Been through something like this. Pepper Mill had an operation at one point, and all sex was off the table ---- well, let’s say sex was altogether forbidden – for a period of several months. Of course, we could touch (foot and back rubs!), but it’s close enough to the poll. It’d be a lot more difficult if we couldn’t talk, I think.