I saw this cartoon today and cracked up. I promise it’s not of me but it soon could be!

A Scotsman walking down the street sees a woman with absolutely perfect breasts.

He approaches her and says, “Miss, would ye let me bite ye breasts for $100?”

“Are you nuts?!!!” she replies, and keeps walking.

He turns around, runs around the block and gets to the corner before she does.

“Would ye let me bite ye breasts for $1,000 dollars?” he asks.

“Listen, I’m not that kind of woman! Got it?”

So the Scotsman runs around the next block and faces her again.

“Would ye let me bite ye breasts just once for $10,000 dollars?”

She thinks about it for a moment and says, “Hmmm, $10,000 dollars; O.K., just once, but not here. Let’s go to that alley over there.”

So they go into the alley, where she takes off her blouse to reveal the most perfect breasts in the world.

As soon as he sees them, he grabs them and starts caressing them, fondling them slowly, kissing them, licking them, burying his face in them, but not biting them…

The woman finally gets annoyed and asks, “Well? Are you gonna bite them or not?”

“Nah”, says the Scotsman…. “Costs too much…”

All of us know that it’s never easy to let go of a relationship. We hang on long after the love has fizzled. If you say to yourself, “it’s not working” more than a few times, in many cases the best thing is to move on. I get asked for advice quite regularly about how to make that final decision. I got another email today.

First, I’m no expert so I can only say what I would do if faced with that situation. People who want to make a decision but just can’t decide whether to stay or to go often look to someone else to help them sort out their true feelings. Sometimes people look for a decision because they feel like they’re drifting apart from their partner and can’t find a way to drift back together. Other times it’s because their partner/spouse has cheated and the ugly trust factor comes into play.

Answering these emails is always a crapshoot for me because the person asking the question is leaning one way or the other but I don’t know which. So for this reason, I tell them the right answer is always the one that feels right inside.

When should you consider leaving? It’s different for everyone but if you are quite unhappy where you are, here are a few things to consider when deciding if your relationship is worth salvaging or not::

* Do you trust your partner to be faithful if that’s what you have promised each other?
* Does your partner lie to you about important (or even unimportant) things?
* Do you see a good future with this person and you?
* Does your partner say mean or abusive things to you? Does your partner act rudely towards you?
* Do you ever feel like you’d rather be alone than with this person?

I know these are some pretty heavy questions and hopefully you’ll be able to answer each one in a positive way. I think most relationships are worthy of trying to rebuild it but both of you need guts and determination to work through it together. One person can’t do it alone. It’s a waste of energy and will only make you angrier each and every day.

Some relationships are probably NOT worth saving.

* If your partner is verbally abusive.
* If your partner embarrasses you in public.
* If your partner goes out of his or her way to make you miserable
* If you are more unhappy than you are happy

In my view if you can answer yes to any of those, why stay miserable? You deserve to be happy in this life. Of course every relationship has good and bad times. If you feel that you’ve got the Ground Hog’s Day movie going on with bad times, you have the ability to choose better for yourself.

Once you decide that it’s not possible to get back to where you started out, it’s time to let go. You can expect some grieving time but that’s normal. What’s really important is to accept it. Accept that letting go of this relationship is in your best interest. The breakup isn’t going to be the end of the world and although things will be different, life will be better in a lot of ways.

Spend time finding out who you are all over again. You’ve been in the mindset of “we” rather than “I” for a long time. Decide what interests you want to explore on your own. Take a new class in something that’s always interested you. Take up bowling or golf. Do things where you’ll make new “me” friends.

Don’t rush the dating thing. Once you learn how to like yourself as a singleton, others will like you too. Don’t hurry to get serious with the first person you meet. It won’t work. You’ve got a lot of baggage. Just start out making a bunch of new friends. Take it slowly. You will be fine on your own and when you’re ready, you’ll know it.

Never dwell on what you’ve lost. If your partner made the decision to be on his or her own, you’ve got to stop thinking “loss.” Nothing is to be gained by that. You’ve done the grieving, so now thing about all the positives that you have in your life. No more arguing, no more worrying about whatever that happened between you and the ex. Look forward knowing the best is yet to come. Look forward to having sex way more often. Look forward to having someone who really wants to hug you — and more!

I read lots of ads as you’d expect me to at SexyAds.com and there seems to be no middle ground in genital shaving. Way more men write about wanting a woman to look like a little girl; all hairless and soft than the other way around. There are also those men who don’t want a woman to shave anywhere. She can gladly keep her bush, underarm hair, leg hair and her moustache too. Few men don’t have an opinion on genital shaving.

So what about ads from women? I’ve got to say there are very few ads from women who request the lower 40 to be clipped with a number one. I have to ask myself is it because women don’t care or is it because women don’t need to worry about it just yet because they haven’t decided whether they want to see the lower 40 just yet?

How many men shave or even trim the pubes? I’ll be honest and say the only men I’ve been with who shaved are the ones I did the shaving on. Granted it’s been a while since I’ve been with a man other than my husband but still… I’m not so old that I can’t remember.

We see often that men complain about a hairy pussy and pubes between their teeth during oral sex as to why they want their women to shave. Why the double standard then? (No, I’m not talking to you, the one who’s got a nice, slick willy, I’m talking to that other guy.) I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander and if you’ve got the long and curlies (or long and straights) and you ask for a shaven pussy, I say, “Blah with you!”

I remember when I first moved to Australia from Florida back in 1996 and about 50% of the couples I met were “partners” but not legally man and wife. In Australia you only have to live together to get the same benefits as a married couple. I wondered if that would catch on in other places.

J and I were partners for 8 years until one night in Paris when I said I thought he should ask me to marry him. Subtle, I know. I don’t know why I decided that it was right for me but my guts gave me that feeling I have learned not to ignore.

I wonder if the same partnership rules existed in the US today where de facto couples who’d been together for more than a year had all the same benefits as a legally married couple, would there be as many marriages? Would you walk down the aisle if you could get by without it?

People have asked me if I would marry now if I hadn’t done so years ago and I have to say I would. While in my head I was fully committed to him, being married did give us that undefinable permanence that feels really good in the pit of my stomach. I always knew we’d be together forever but now I don’t wonder about it at all. I just know. I think J could have stayed partners forever but we promised each other that if either one wanted to, we would.

None of this should imply that I think marriage should only be between a man and a woman. I’m of the rock solid opinion that marriage should be allowed between any two people who want to commit themselves to each other for life. (or for however long they want to be together) It is really nobody’s business but the two people involved. I can’t see how marriage between any two other people can really affect me in any way other than if I want to make rules for everyone else to follow.

Marriage isn’t for everyone. Too often marriage becomes ownership, and when that happens, the party’s over for the one who’s owned. What about you? Would you marry someone or live together?