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Re: 19-02-19 He is comfortable

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christopheftw wrote:
Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:03 pm
They are young, cool, cool nerdy, and reasonably attractive.
"reasonably?" Try both are hawt and each with what amounts to their own groupies wanting to do perverted things with them.

Good potential for an open relationship. At least I have never met a woman in real life that was as open minded as Peggy. And hawt.

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But Peggy, the tax benefits of filing jointly! :-B
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Opus the Poet wrote:
Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:08 pm
"Less baggage" =/= "no baggage"
Indeed. Everyone has baggage, except the dead. And there are laws most places for being amorous with the dead. Dead weight pun? My point is that they both don't have radical amounts of crazy. Peggy's issue is reasonable, if a little exaggerated for comedy's sake. She enjoys sexual exploration. Nothing wrong with the buddy system.
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worldshaking00 wrote:
Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:05 pm
leann123 wrote:
Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:25 pm
Peggy isn't good for Gary.
How do you figure? Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but, I was hoping you could shed some light on your statement.

I am a shipper for the pair now that the chips are down. Truth be told, I have wanted Gary to seriously get together with just about all of the females in the cast, at one point or another. But Peggy is the front-runner for me now. That being said, I think she is good for him for the following reasons:
  • the most important: they communicate, mostly. Mind you, the script and 'required' comedy gags have made for several hiccups along their relationship. However, they feel comfortable enough with the other to talk. Openly. Sure, Peggy is still insecure/unsure about her commitment levels at the moment. But I am chalking that up to the last bit of conflict in the story.
  • they have obvious sexual chemistry. Gary enjoys getting pegged by a woman he cares deeply about. Period. She enjoys the kink a lot, and he is happy to oblige her. On top of that, she doesn't take advantage of him. She reciprocates, allowing him to enjoy the types of sex he is wanting to perform with her. She loves the SGR trick; who doesn't? But she doesn't demand it from him.
  • for the most part, the two of them have their professional lives on track. Financially, they are both responsible. Money, or arguments about "curtains" should be rare indeed.
  • she accepts him for being him. She might not be a Transformers or gaming geek, but she isn't intimidated or annoyed by his hobbies. In fact, she enjoys some of his interests (superhero movies and role-play).
  • trust. They have displayed the same level (or more) or trust than Kiley & Matt had in the other. They are comfortable around the other. Argument could be made that their desire for sex from the other has eased them into being domestically comfortable with the other out of necessity. Peggy also came to Gary's flat directly after leaving Sonya's place. Sure as well, low-hanging fruit for Peggy with the vacancy at his flat. But she stayed. Enough time has gone by where she could have gotten her own place, or looked for another place to roomie-up with.
  • she has less baggage than most of the characters in the strip. In fact, she is often the voice of reason.
There might be more, but that's what's coming to my mind.

What Peggy needs to do now is talk with him. Just as Zii came to Didi (no pun intended), she needs to get her concerns out in the open. She needs to ask Gary what he wants from her, or how deep he wants their relationship. I assume Gary would also freak out at the Marriage word. I think he'd just be happy at Girlfriend. I don't think Gary's brain has even considered going to a jewelry shop and get an engagement ring. So, she is overreacting. Of course knowing their relationship, Gary might consider giving her a special strap-on... maybe.

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I don't know. She did just call Gary boring and she admits she wants to sleep around on him.

That generally means, not right for someone.

Gary being okay with that, just wouldn't look good for Gary.

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She never says “boring”. Sonya is the only person who’s said that, that I recall, amazingly enough. (Because let’s face it, Gary is a bit boring.) She likes him a lot; her problem is more that she thinks that liking someone that much could make her boring.
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I take her too comfortable comment to mean boring, as that's how it reads to me.

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You've never slumped in a nice armchair and then found yourself thinking "There was stuff I wanted to do ... and it'll be fun when I do it ... but this chair is so nice..."?
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Plus there is a kind of "trap" that couples tend to fall into, usually when they've been together for awhile, where they spend all their spare time just hanging with each other, having sex, watching TV and having meals together, and otherwise not leaving the house until they have to (like for example to go to work or school). Many would call this just "living life", but it can also become rather boring, especially if you've done it for years.
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...and it seems that Peggy maybe fell into such a pattern with her ex, which would be why she’s scared of it happening again. Even if it is actually a side-effect of a good relationship.
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Perhaps the creative team will have Gary and Peggy become swingers or swinger-like? That would probably satisfy Peggy's desire for sexual freedom and exploration while at the same time allowing for a return to the comfortable. They both enjoy roleplay. I would absolutely enjoy a throwback to the attempted foursome and Gary reprising his role of Lothario. That foursome was very pivotal to all the characters involved and truly deserves a callback. Or any of the porn starlets. Or Tracy and her webcam show with special guests (although that one is a far-fetched one since it would require Gary to want to get near her craziness) or them starting their own webcam show?

Does that sound too odd for Gary to compromise his desire for a serious relationship with a woman by also including some mutually enjoyable sexual exploration? As long as communication and proper vetting has been done, I don't see the harm. In fact, if Gary had a 'eureka' moment, he'd surprise Peggy with something that could potentially be described as a 'curveball'...

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Re: 19-02-19 He is comfortable

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Gary and Peggy becoming swingers wouldn't be that much different than them continuing their current open FWB relationship. I want the "curve ball" to be an out of left field surprise like when Kiley jumped Gary punching his V-card and when Gary turned up in Paris after vanishing from his apartment. The creative team needs to stop playing it safe since we're near the end anyway. Surprise us again damn it!

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