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Oooooh I'm so happy and its all so beautiful - I seem to have got meself my very own MAN!

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StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 19:20

Me and my lovely lovely old friend who have been sort of sleeping together for a bit have decided we want it to be real and proper and exclusive and everything! And I could just burst with happiness... It was kind of awkward at first, making that leap from friend-we've-known-all-our-adult-lives to no-clothes-on, but its just been so beautiful and now I can actually let myself get used to it. We had a 'talk' last night and it turns out we'd both been feeling the same but not wanting to say anything for fear of bursting the bubble.

He is just the loveliest person I could hope to know, never mind get together with. He's been here for the last week and just went home for a bit to the woods he lives in today

He is fantastic with DD and she really likes him though in typical four year old fashion she says she likes his dog best.

Ohhhh and he just sent me a message to let me know they are back safe and he misses me already

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MissingMyHeels · 27/02/2008 19:21

Awww that's fabulous. I do like a good happy ending type story! How long had you been single?

charliecat · 27/02/2008 19:22

You lucky thing

hertsnessex · 27/02/2008 19:22

thats so lovely!!!

Wisteria · 27/02/2008 19:23

Oh StripeyMama - I am over the moon for you

Was it like the episode of Friends when Chandler and Monica get it on or was it more like Joey and Rachel ?

StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 19:25

Been single for three years next month - well, there was a brief and disastrous fling last year but least said about that!

Don't know about Friends though

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Wisteria · 27/02/2008 19:26

Did it feel natural straight from the off or was the first kiss a bit giggly and awkward ?

chocolatespiders · 27/02/2008 19:26

oh wow wow wow

gives us all hope !!!!

nearly 3 years single for me ..

and i wasnt even lucky enough to feel the earth move last night!!! what am i doing wrong!!!!???

prettyfly1 · 27/02/2008 19:33

ahhh - your post really made me smile. welldone and grrr ami jealous!

OverMyDeadBody · 27/02/2008 19:36

oooh I do like stories like this!

StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 19:37

It was a bit awkward but we are good enough friends that we just took our time and it was fine

I've slept with other close-ish friends before but it felt far more, don't know, special (?) this time.

Ooooooh I'm all of a tizzy!

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littlewoman · 27/02/2008 20:51

Congratulations to both of you SMS

mamalovesmojitos · 27/02/2008 20:58

that's a gorgeous story! i love a bit of romance... delighted for you SMS...enjoy this time!

StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 21:00

Oh I will enjoy it don't you worry.

Mojitos is what we were drinking last night....

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givemehope · 27/02/2008 21:00

Hurray!!! Thanks for sharing your good news - hope for us all!

WallOfSilence · 27/02/2008 21:01

Are you the one who had sex in the woods recently & didn't use a condom? Said friend had been talking about wanting a baby & you wouldn't mind another????

StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 21:05

Might be....

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mamalovesmojitos · 27/02/2008 21:22

you were drinking mojitos with your lover? i was doing an essay. . and he's talked about having a baby! awww...

mamalovesmojitos · 27/02/2008 21:22

you were drinking mojitos with your lover? i was doing an essay. . and he's talked about having a baby! awww...

WallOfSilence · 27/02/2008 21:23

@ 'dignified' silence!

Remotew · 27/02/2008 21:26

How lovely. Go for it big style

StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 21:38

Yeah I am one of the least dignified people I know!

Especially after a few mojitos...

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tortoise · 27/02/2008 21:41

Aww how lovely. So nice to hear happy news SMS.
But i am very !

StripeyMamaSpanx · 27/02/2008 21:44

Sorry. Will shut up about it in a bit, honest.

I foresee a summer of lots of festivals and running round barefoot with flowers in my hair.

It'll probably rain all summer now I've said that

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TGuardian · 03/03/2008 19:18

yay you, well done.

i seem to have gone the opposite way. my best freind was once my GF. we're still quite happy to sleep naked in the same bed, but there's nothing more than this between us.

MsPontipine · 03/03/2008 20:29

He lives in the woods???