Guys just deal with things in different ways I guess
After subjecting myself to a thoroughly irritating night with Boy Toy, in which he said and did everything to make me edgy and uncomfortable (when any one of 8-10 good-looking guys in the happening Thursday night bar around me would have gladly taken me off his hands, I'm sure--life is so unfair, by the way--last week, Keith-free, there was no one. . .this week, all kinds of elgible contenders!!), I finally had to have "the conversation" with him when we got back to my house and went to bed. It went something like this:
Me: Hey don't I just totally get on your nerves sometimes?
Him: Yeah.
Me: But you just like hooking up with me, right?
Him: Yeah.
Me: Ok, so this is pretty casual then right?
Him: (Pause.) Yeah, of course. What brought that on?
Me: You know, I just really don't want to be in a relationship right now. I've too soon out of one. I'm just having fun. I like you. I like hanging out. I like hooking up. But I think that's sort of all this is.
Him: Ok.
Me: I mean, what's your perception?
Him: Yeah. I mean, totally. We're totally in the same place, then. I mean, we've only been dating a few weeks.
Me: It's been more like a month. And I've just gotten the impression that you maybe thought it was going in a direction it wasn't.
Him: Why's that?
Me: Just comments you've made. I just really don't want to be part of a "couple" right now, and I'm comfortable with the ways things are. . .very casual.
Him: Ok, that's cool. Yeah, me too. I mean, I just wouldn't have said anything, so I'm glad we had this conversation.
Me: Well, I just wanted to be clear.
Him: Ok, yeah.
(Few minutes silence.)
Him: So does that mean this is the last time we're going to see each other?
Me: No. I mean, if you want to see me, that's cool. I just don't want to feel like I have to devote a certain number of days to you or see you at particular times.
Him: Yeah, ok. Well, you know sometimes people just say one thing and mean another (astute of him).
Me: No, I'd still like to see you.
Him: Well, you know, if you meet someone else. . .I mean, we shouldn't keep. . .you know. . .just let me know.
Me: Yeah, I would. Of course. You too.
Five minutes later, he was soliciting me for a BJ. Guys just deal with things in different ways I guess.