Hello people from Straight Dope. New here and it was suggested to me that I post here. Not sure if this is an appropriate question so please bare with me Do you think about exes you never slept with or just forget about them?
If I never slept with them I don’t consider them exes.
God damn. For as personal as a question this is, someone here still manages to say, word-for-word, how I feel. And in the first post to boot.
Forgot to add, And why ?
Someone gets me!
I did my dating back in the 80’s, so there were very few dates that didn’t involve the main event.
For those that didn’t, I think about it from time to time. Most of my alternate-timeline ponderings involve the ones where we DID end up together for a while, and then things fell apart.
Dammit.
So the ones you slept with were worth it compared to those you didn’t?
No, I just have more to think about for the ones I slept with, and I realize that I missed out on something by screwing up a relationship. Rather than thinking about “might-have-beens,” I think about “what-I-had-and-lost”. The ones that never went anywhere, I have no idea whether or not there was a shot, there.
Three sexual partners before I married Mrs. Homie (and just her, since the wedding, I promise!).
My first: think about her all the time. We were teenagers in love, and DAMN! was she good in the sack!
My second: Uncomfortable, sloppy, drunken one-nigh-stand I’ve tried to forget.
My third: Friends-with-benefits relationship that lasted off-and-on for two years. I think about her every now and then.
I occasionally think about them, as they were high school boyfriends back when I was young and innocent, and just held hands.
I’m particularly amused that one of them turned out to be gay - no wonder he only wanted to hold hands, and I’m glad to have acted as his beard if that helped him for a while
The other one told everyone that he was going to sleep with me and promptly got dumped for it. An anti-self-fufilling prophecy?
Unless I marry them, I don’t think of them at all. Whether we were physically intimate or not.
I had sex with all my exes, but usually didn’t sleep with them.