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The Right Bottle of Wine (or Philosophy of Attraction)  

rm_debluvz2fck 55F
232 posts
5/2/2014 8:37 pm
The Right Bottle of Wine (or Philosophy of Attraction)


I'll begin with the supposition that everyone here has had their experience with a bad relationship. There exists the possibility that someone here is currently with their high school sweetheart and first and only love. As unlikely as that sounds, they are the ones who may be a little confused by this post. Everyone else will try to work out where this might apply to them.

People pair off in good and bad ways. Some matches are good, true compliments to each other, while others are unfortunate to horrible. I've mentioned such things before in brief, including my comparing a partner to a bottle of wine. Tonight's little diatribe is about finding the right bottle for your meal.

Each person benefits from the compliment of another when that other is the right pairing. Choose the wrong person is like pairing a red wine with avocado dip. Catastrophic.

The trick is to find the compliment, a person who doesn't make you who you are or should become, but one who makes you more than you were without them. Someone who makes you less than who you are, takes away from your beauty and individuality, is a catastrophe.

For me, I've found a perfect compliment once but lost him almost as quickly. That isn't a story for tonight. The story for tonight is what generally comes up when I search for this compliment.

I've found men over time who seem to be a good match. They seem intelligent, charming, open, and honest, like a good bottle of wine that you might pair with just about anything. Maybe not gumbo, but I'm not gumbo.

These men turn out to be Mad 20/20. At my age, I have a sense of irony that has evolved like a set of gills. Find a man who seems to be someone you could enjoy being with, who claims to want the same things, but who turns out to be nothing he said he was, and see if you don't start thinking MD 20/20, too.

I admit to having a friend at the moment who is Boone's Farm. He is an advance over the typical MD 20/20. Not terrible to be around, but sexually frustrating like nobody's business. Boone's Farm. Better than nothing to drink, but a Coke is better.

As an aside, Coke is any in your series of self help apparatuses. Battery Operated Boyfriend is another typical word for them. They are great for any occasion, go with every meal, but they aren't the compliment that a good bottle of wine can be.

My perfect bottle, the one I found and lost, was corked. Perfect at one point, but I found him too late. Too damaged and lost.

Luck of the draw. How do you say that in wine terms?

49alfie 68M
1 post
5/3/2014 8:02 am

very well said kiddo


CynicusMaximus 52M
1844 posts
5/5/2014 7:04 am

There was a crack in the bottle, when you found it.

That happen to best bottles when handled by buffoons then clumsily put back on the shelf.

Not your fault.


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